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>>8487093
>The boot rom of the machine has the string "PS-X" inside it.
see pic.

The real story is that Sony wanted it called as PlayStation-X because the 90s was extreme. Every pre-release info used that name. Then come the launch and they dropped it and just called it Playstation, but by then the PSX name got stuck for the entire decade. When the PS2 came out, some magazines even called it PSX2 initially, and that's probably why Sony put the giant blue "PS2" initials on the machine, so there's no confusion..

>>6534258
>>6534259
Cease your historical revisionism, zoomer. I'll never allow you to taint my time period. It was PSX and it will always be PSX.
>b-but it wasn't official
Except it literally was and is. Pic related. A literal copyright.

>>6126457
>does anyone know how the term psx came about

The development codename for the console was Playstation-X.

Also, before the PS2 came out, most gaming mags called it PSX2.

>>5637208
>I don’t see PSX anywhere on my PlayStation
You didn't look very hard.

>>5297260
Obligatory pic related #3

>>5135621
>Actually, it was originally called the PSX
Can confirm. EVERYONE called it the PSX.

The actual boot rom of the Playstation has the PS-X string in it. Go and look it up.

>>3995982
console calls itself PS-X on a firmware level.

>>3915772
PSX was used as a developer codename, used in the firmware of the machine, and used in the early 1994 dev kits. Then it was used as a marketing name in north America for a short while.

By that time most of the media was already calling it PSX; you had ads for PSX console and games, you had some games saying they were specifically made for the PSX, you had the PSX Magazine, etc.
In late 99 / early 2000, before it came out, the Playstation 2 was also referred to as PSX2 by many magazines.

When the PS2 came out, it had big "PS2" on its side, so no one referred to it as PSX2 anymore. It was PS2. And then Sony released the PSOne, a mini version of the first console. Then a few years later they did a failed PS2 + DVR combo, officially called PSX.

So, we have
PSX - the first playstation console (codename, marketing name)
PSX2 - informal/made up name for the Playstation 2, used before the machine was released by magazines.
PS2 - official abbreviation for the second Playstation
psOne - mini version of the Playstation 1.
PSX - Japan only Playstation 2 + DVR combo.

But you know the abbreviation that they never officially used even in developer context? PS1. That's a retronym made up due to the presence of PS2 and PS3 in the mid 00s.

PS1 is more unused than PSX.

>>3822971
>Is this revisionist history or are you fucking with him?

No it's not.
The consoles original codename was PS-X.
Magazines kept calling it PSX for pretty much its entire lifetime. Sony always called it Playstation. The only time it was called PS1 was when they released that mini model (the psOne).

PSX is what the console calls itself.

>>3574902
>Still spreading misinformation, I see.

You can open up the bios and search for the string, you know.