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they call it the xbox 360 because it's 360 months old

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The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago

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People remember the red ring of death but seem to have forgotten how much of a pain it was to keep updating the number on those first generation models every month. Fortunately later hardware revisions replaced the little whiteboard section on the front with a 7-segment LED display to automate it.

For the benefit of the other commentors, it got called that because Microsoft didn't want to pit the "XBoX 2" against the "PS3" because they thought consumers would assume higher number = better. It's the Slackware version number strategy.