alt Hacker News> Oh man I feel this every time there’s a games console launch. I still have no idea what the latest Xbox is called but Sony gets it right with “Playstation <N>”
Not so easy: even for old PlaysStations, there existed different versions:
1. PlayStation, PSOne, PlayStation Classic
2. PlayStation 2, PlayStation 2 Slim
3. PlayStation 3, PlayStation 3 Slim, PlayStation 3 Super-Slim
4. PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Slim, PlayStation 4 Pro
5. PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, PlayStation 5 Slim, PlayStation 5 Digital Edition Slim, PlayStation 5 Pro
And then Sony used the PlayStation branding for other consoles, too:
- PlayStation Portable
- PlayStation Vita
- PlayStation Portal
- PlayStation TV (which is also called PlayStation Vita TV)
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why are you so deliberately not getting the point?
if I ask you to choose between xbox 360, xbox one and xbox series s which one is the latest?
and then if I ask you to choose between ps2, 3, 4 and 5 which one is the latest?
what do you think are your chances to get it right for xbox?
Sony never used the names "Slim" or "Super Slim" because the product was the same and ran the same software.
I think what you listed matches with what he suggested, they just have words instead of a letter for the variants. Which is actually better in this example because the "Slim", "Pro" and "Digital" mean what you would expect them to mean here, versus the "a" in "Pixel 9a" in somewhat obtuse.
Dell is messing this up badly even though they almost got the strategy, "Dell Pro 14 Premium" is a real product and "Dell Pro Max 14 Plus" is also a real product, there's no way anyone knows what that means.