Example:P320 X compact and the P320 compact?

Does it just denote that it is optic ready?

!!X-treme tacticool sheepdog-edness!!
looks over left shoulder...looks over right shoulder...reholsters slowly

Haha. Just seems like Sig's gimmick of making part of their line marketing to the 5.11 guys.

X-treme marketing!

Xavier?

The Truth is out there

In the P320 series, mostly the grip module style.

The quickest way to tell the 320 x compact from the compact is the xcompact has a straight trigger. There are other things as well but not as obvious from pictures.

And the X style grip compared to the leftover P250 grip.

The "X" designation originated with the older P220/P226 X5 and X6 models originally offered by the Mastershop as semi-custom competition guns with hand-fitted barrels (and often other stuff geared towards competition like muzzle weights and optic bridges).

Now the X-prefix seems to have been watered down to just be a marketing tag used to denote factory models that have slightly fancier options than the base models, like straight triggers, different grips, and optics cuts.

Unlike the P320 X-Carry that is a true P320 Carry model, the P320 X-Compact is special in that it's not a true P320 Compact... It sports the 3.6" barrel and correspondingly shorter slide borrowed from the P320 Subcompact model.

So the X-Compact is a Subcompact slide/barrel on a Compact length grip, similar to how the P320 Carry and X-Carry are set up as a Compact slide/barrel with a Full-Size length grip.

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Originally posted by El_Barto:
The quickest way to tell the 320 x compact from the compact is the xcompact has a straight trigger. There are other things as well but not as obvious from pictures.

The shorter subcompact length slide/barrel and boxier grip module are pretty noticeable differences too. Those stand out more than the straight trigger to me.

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What does the X stand for?

After all those years of algebra, I still don't know.

I found the darn X, but am still at a loss for the plane wave solutions.

Free Dirac!

X=10

Doesn't X mark the spot?

I'd guess anoreXic, because the grip of that X-Grip module kinda looks like that when put next to the pudgy grip of the standard grip module.

They use the X-Grip modules instead of the "leftover p250" grip as Dan calls it.

I also think the X was meant as a crossover for mixing and matching the grip and slide sizes. So for example:

Subcompact slide x compact grip = XCompact
Fullsize slide x compact grip = XFull

etc, etc

eXpensive?