My wife was a victim of Xbox’s confusing naming scheme

So months ago, my wife shows my kids the upcoming killer klowns from outer space trailer. Kids get excited, I get annoyed.

Kids want it, wife says It’s for the Xbox s/x, I hear that and tell her It won’t play on our OG Xbox One.
She says, well what do we need, I look it up and tell her that the game is only compatible with the Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S….she gives me the surprised Pikachu face and asks again.

I tell her that Xbox is shit at naming its next generation of consoles, and the 2 new ones were called the series S and series X. Shortly thereafter she finds one for sale locally, and buys it, and buys the game on Amazon new.

Come Today, Christmas day, kids open the gifts, get the fancy white Xbox, and the game, I have to create an account, download updates…yada yada.

Insert the disk into the system, and it only says install disk….no option to just play, I click it and the message says it needs the Xbox Series X.

I tell me wife She bought the wrong one, she is adamant that she bought the xbox one X….. well I did not know that xbox released 3 versions of their 3rd gen console, the xbox one, then the xbox one s and the xbox one x……

On top of that they named their next generation console nearly identically…. the xbox series X and there xbox Series S.
She bought the previous generation with a very similar name, and kids were pissed since they waited from summer until now, and wife was upset she made the mistake.

All I can say is that microsoft needs to find the butthole who came up with these names and kick them in the nuts

Maybe twice.