So I've been thinking about this since 2016 when we got IGN's unfiltered interview from former Xbox chief Robbie Bach and that is they didn't want to call the Xbox 360 the Xbox 2 and have it seem worse to PS3 just by name and they thought of originally calling it just Xbox 3 before they finally came up with 360.
Well Sony is the king of having the naming science of your successor system by calling the next one the same thing but adding +1 to the number on the end!
PS1 (Which use to just be called PlayStation or PSX until around the PS One slimmer system came out from what I remember!)
PS2
PS3
PS4/PS4 Pro
PS5
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PSVR
PSVR 2
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then finally we get
PSP and it's follow up PS VITA!
and the only reason I can thing of why Sony handhelds broke this cycle is because they didn't want PSP 2 to sound worse to 3DS when parents are looking for a new handheld for their kids. (which is probably still a big market for the PSP even though I remember most teens and adults were drawn to the PSP.)
Do you believe this theory or could it be something else? I think I heard Samsung and other smart phone makers will straight up skip numbers in their next smart phone so it doesn't sound worse than the new iphone or other competitor phones!
Also how cool would it be if we got the Switch 2 in March - June of 2023 and Sony decided to make a new handheld called PSP 3 in 2024 to get revenge for the vita an retroactively call the vita the PSP 2 like how the original PlayStation got the Name PlayStation 1 later in its life close to when the PS2 was coming out!
I doubt this will happen because Sony probably doesn't want to spread it's studios too thin with PS5, PSVR 2, and a new handheld but imagine if they just treated the PSP 3 as a portable PS4 that could play PS1 classics, PS2 classics, Digital PSP games, Digital Vita Games, Digital PS4 games and stream PS3 and PS5 games that would be pretty neat.
Well Sony is the king of having the naming science of your successor system by calling the next one the same thing but adding +1 to the number on the end!
PS1 (Which use to just be called PlayStation or PSX until around the PS One slimmer system came out from what I remember!)
PS2
PS3
PS4/PS4 Pro
PS5
---------------------------------------
PSVR
PSVR 2
---------------------------------------
then finally we get
PSP and it's follow up PS VITA!
and the only reason I can thing of why Sony handhelds broke this cycle is because they didn't want PSP 2 to sound worse to 3DS when parents are looking for a new handheld for their kids. (which is probably still a big market for the PSP even though I remember most teens and adults were drawn to the PSP.)
Do you believe this theory or could it be something else? I think I heard Samsung and other smart phone makers will straight up skip numbers in their next smart phone so it doesn't sound worse than the new iphone or other competitor phones!
Also how cool would it be if we got the Switch 2 in March - June of 2023 and Sony decided to make a new handheld called PSP 3 in 2024 to get revenge for the vita an retroactively call the vita the PSP 2 like how the original PlayStation got the Name PlayStation 1 later in its life close to when the PS2 was coming out!
I doubt this will happen because Sony probably doesn't want to spread it's studios too thin with PS5, PSVR 2, and a new handheld but imagine if they just treated the PSP 3 as a portable PS4 that could play PS1 classics, PS2 classics, Digital PSP games, Digital Vita Games, Digital PS4 games and stream PS3 and PS5 games that would be pretty neat.
