TITLE
11-X, WEP, Midway, CyberPlayGround, FACE – the rejected names for Microsoft’s first console
AUTHOR
Edge
PUBLICATION
Edge
YEAR
2013
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
Microsoft’s ‘naming guys’ wanted to call the company’s first games console 11-X or Eleven-X, but were overruled by Seamus Blackley and his launch team.Blackley was part of the team that built and launched the first Xbox, and in an excerpt from an archive Edge interview published online for the first time, he revealed to us the long list of suggested acronym-based names for what eventually became the Xbox.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
Microsoft
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Seamus Blackley
PLATFORMS MENTIONED
Xbox