/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10261065
The PlayStation is called the PS1 today. Anyone calling it PSX is about to die of natural causes.

>>10261065
Isn't it to differentiate from that actual "PSOne" with the attached screen or whatever it was?

>>10261065
You sound autistic

>>10261070
Yes, the model that came after the PS2 and had significantly different changes. Zoomies are retarded and never owned these consoles so they don't know any better.
They don't even know the "PSX" that came out after the PS2 is just a glorified DVD player that only came out in Japan and nobody knew or cared about until someone stumbled upon wikipedia.

>>10261083
Does it not matter at all what Sony themselves call their consoles, as long as some game journalists in the 90s form some false consensus based on nothing that a console should be called something other than what it says on the box and console itself?

>>10261065
>Why is the PlayStation called the PSX
prevalence of it use in western mags and rags by western fags and hags
>today
boomers and poser boomers using outdated terms only their niche ever used in a world increasingly moving past them

it's all auster basically

>>10261101
Nobody's gonna stop using acronyms.

>>10261101
The official Nintendo approved acronym for the GBA is AGB. Nobody in existence cares though because Nintendo never release a product called the "GBA" years later just to confuse future generations.

>>10261193
It's only PSX if the PS2, and PS3, and PS4, and PS5 didn't exist. It's PS1 now.

>>10261210
>It's not The Terminator, it's Terminator 1

>>10261193
>random game journalist opinions
vs

>>10261220
What acronym was most commonly used is not an opinion.

>>10261101
That's the playstation I remember, when the PS2 came out people started calling it the PS1.
I am old, I am from the UK, hth.

>>10261228

>>10261220
>Why yes I call my system the SCPH-1001

>>10261236
I call this a Gamecube

>>10261065
because it just is, okay?

>>10261238
Yes, it's a Nintendo Pseudo Disc Pack Gamecube Development box.

>>10261234
I genuinely think this discussion is an IQ test. People below a certain IQ just can't comprehend the idea of an acronym.

>>10261220

>>10261243
They are just too autistic to understand

>>10261234
"Playstation" is not an acronym. These kinds of threads are clearly discussing acronyms, not the full name of the console.
You fucking retard.

>>10261069
>>10261125
>>10261210
Seethe.

>>10261213
s o v l . . .

>>10261261
If you want an acronym that actually makes sense, and isn't based on neurotypical group consensus like >>10261193 then you would call it a PS, or PS1. PS if you want to cope and pretend you're still in the 90s where nobody knew about a PS2 and you care more about nostalgia than actually playing old games

>>10261220
And a N64 cart will have Nintendo 64 written on it, but everyone called it the N64.

>>10261228
Yep, and you can find plenty of development/prototype discs from developers at the time labeled as PSX. What you call it now is your choice, but "PSX" was absolutely the commonly used abbreviation back in the day, no matter how much it makes autistic "NO THE PSX WAS A PS2-BASED MULTIMEDIA CONSOLE" zoomies seethe.

>>10261271
>then you would call it a PS
That acronym has already been taken by PhotoShop™

>>10261281
All N64 accessories have the NUS (Nintendo Ultra Sixti-four) acronym to them.

>>10261065
I write PSX as that's what it has been called my entire life, I don't give a shit if you want to abbreviate it to PS1 but don't tell me that I have to follow your opinion on this

>But its 2023, we all say PS1 now
False, just some people do

Calling it anything but PSX outs you as a disgusting zoomer

>>10261271
Both Sega and Nintendo used the PSX acronym. Namco did so in Ridge Racer (1994) and Neversoft in a demo for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000). The usage of the PSX acronym was widespread for the entirety of the Playstation's lifespan and beyond.

>>10261309
Same with the Ultra 64.

>>10261313
That French magazine were the only ones calling it that after the name changed to just N64.

>>10261325
I think "Ultra 64" was just the name of the magazine, but no, I was there at the time, and a lot of people still called it "the ultra" even in early 2000s.
Like "PSX", it was a codename that stuck. Eventually, people started just saying N64, just like how people started using PS1.

>>10261271
>you would call it a PS
If you were retarded, which you are. Normal people won't.
Retard.

>A bunch of children argue over why it was called the PSX (PlayStation Xperience) and not just PS1.

>>10261365
It's PlayStation eXcentric

the real question is was it still called the PSX during the PS2 era?

>>10261125
>but it was only in the west

>>10261101
>>10261220
>but it was only game journalists

I find it funny both how >>10261193 is so accurate and how detractors never look at the whole thing.

>>10261380
Sony themselves released a version of the PS2 called PSX, which makes this whole discussion even sillier.

>>10261365
>>10261372
It was PlayStation Xtreme

>>10261365
>>10261372
>>10261390
Sony clarified what the X meant already, it's Xperia.

>>10261383
The PSX exists, why are you in denial about it? such an auster thing to do.

>>10261406
The only people in denial are zoomies about >>10261193
It existing is completely irrelevant to the usage of PSX to refer to the original PlayStation

>>10261414
It's not that nobody used PSX in the past, it's more like it's an obsolete term, like Ultra 64.
What's more, saying "Ultra" would still be ok because, even if it's not the official name, the console was definitely going to be called that way and there's even a logo for it, and there were demo units produced of it.
"PSX" was always just a codename, Sony never released any sort of demo console or anything with the name of "PSX" other than the PS2 model released in the 2000s.
You can call it PSX if you want, you can call it P-S-X or XSP or whatever you want, but PSX is, officially, a PS2 model as of the current timeline we're stuck in.

>>10261417
Ultra 64 was obsolete before the console release, PSX was used during the entire lifespan of the thing until the PS2 was released and it was changed retroactively. It's valid and immediately understandable to anyone but zoomies and your meme wiki article console doesn't suddenly invalidate years of history.

>>10261414
>Nooooo that thing doesn't exist!!! DONT POST IT

>>10261427
And yet Ultra 64 has a logo, where's the PSX logo?

>>10261065
It's time to stop posting.

Imagine calling it "PS1" before anyone ever had any idea that the console would've had a successor. It's the ultimate zoomie detector, they weren't alive in those days.

>>10261441
Imagine calling the PS1 anything other than the PS1 after 2345

>>10261441
As someone who was alive back in the 90s, I just said "Playstation". If I had to guess a way to shorten it, it would be "PS", like the logo on the system.
Yes, I do remember magazines calling it "PSX", but I always wondered why that was, maybe my console was old and there was a new model that came out? But then the new model was called Dual Shock, no X anywhere. It was confusing.
It was only much later, with the internet, that I learned PS-X was the codename.

>>10261457
>I always wondered why that was
Adding an X to an acronym wasn't uncommon. 32X, MSX, BS-X.

>>10261441
At the time i just said and wrote playstation, the full name. I saw psx in magazines but as a kid i just assumed they wanted 3 letter alphabet names to seem cool since sega and nintendo had them, no one ever explained what the x meant in magazines when i read them

>>10261065
Because it was called psx at the time, but you wouldn't know that because you weren't born yet

>>10261484
And all of those we're official. The X isn't the point. The X was nowhere to be seen on the console design or package.

>>10261815
Read >>10261171

Not the image, genius.

>>10261065
Because people didn't stop calling it the PSX. The millions of people who owned a PSX don't care about a Japan-only DVR that sold two units.
/thread

The commonly used acronym "PSX" for the first PlayStation is actually incorrect. The name "PSX" was only used for a later device, the PS2/DVR hybrid released only in Japan. The original PlayStation was never actually referred to as "PSX" by Sony or the gaming community at large. Instead, it was simply known as the "PlayStation." So next time you hear someone say "PSX" to refer to the original PlayStation, you can correct them and show off your superior gaming knowledge.

>>10262146
>zoomers trying to rewrite history
Laughably pathetic

>>10262162
Keyword is "at large", yeah some people called it psx for weird reasons a few years in the 90s and early 00s maybe. PSX is a PS2 model
>Noooooo!!! Rewriting history! Zoomer!
You are the zoomer.

>>10262168
Ultra 64 was also patentated

>>10262164
There are more people who call the original PlayStation "PSX" than there are people who even know of the DVR's existence

I don;t think anyone ever claimed that Sony used 'PS-X' outside of the consoles initial development. They always abbreviated it as 'PS', though after the PS2, it did become PS1 as a distinction. It was the gaming press that picked up on PSX and used it at their own discretion. Also, lots of game devs used PSX too. PSX was never official, outside of that PSX/ PS2 game console posted in the OP.

>>10261065
it was always called the psx, zoomer

PSX stuck as a written abbreviation even after it was no longer extreme, because it is unique and memorable. In the English speaking world, "PS" was already the abbreviation used for "postscript," making it awkward to read and use when referring to a gaming console.

>>10262171
You mean Konami's Ultra Games?

>>10262175
Doesn't seem to be the case

>>10261065
The Playstation was called the:
PS
PSX
PS1
Sony Playstation

during the time i was out. Is it that fucking hard to do 5 minutes of research before you make in inane thread begging a question that has been answered 20 years ago?

>>10262186
>"postscript,"

Photoshop, Paintshop, Phantasy Star, Power Supply (though the correct term is PSU), I've seen PSX used frequently enough on web forums back in the day, just to not cause confusion.

>>10262191
>Japan-only
>sales bomb with only 250k units sold
>meanwhile millions of people around the world refer to the original PlayStation as "PSX"

>>10261338
>I was there at the time, and a lot of people still called it "the ultra" even in early 2000s.
you absolutely weren't there at the time, because literally nobody called it that ever
it has been called n64 from 96 onward

In the USA
Nintendo Entertainment System
>en ee ess
>Nintendo
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
>ess en ee ess
>Super Nintendo
Genesis
>Genesis
>Sega
PlayStation
>pee ess ecks
>PlayStation

>>10261815
autistic fucks like you should kill yourselves to remove your flawed genes from this earth

>>10262190
No, Ultra 64

>>10262164
>>10262191
see >>10261193
then kill yourself, because you're completely fucking retarded, and I find retarded people utterly repugnant

>>10262214
Funny projection

>>10262221
So wheres the X?

>>10262221
auster

>>10262223
you don't know what projection is.
>>10262224
you're autistic.
>>10262235
you don't know what that means.

>>10262237
>I can't process the fact that I am getting BTFO by the existence of a real device called the PSX and the fact Sony never named the ps1 as psx for real. Error error error malfunctioning malfunctioning malfunctioning

>>10262237
>auster is a PSX denialist
>auster thinks his sega system shit will fly with the chadstation
lmfao get owned faggot

>>10262253
you're autistic.
>>10262257
you don't know what that word means and it's time for your meds.

>>10262259
>I-I'm not auster I SWARE
lmaooooo dude you got outed

>>10262259
projecting

>>10262260
meds.
>>10262264
you don't know what that means.

>>10262291
Where's the X?

>>10261065
no one calls it the psx

I remember hearing both back in the day, I preferred PS1 because it made more sense after the PS2 launched.

NOBODY said 'Pee ESS Ecks', They said 'PlayStation'. In writing, the abbreviation you'd see in magazines and on online forums was PSX, but if you sat a little kid down and asked them what the abbreviation was they'd guess it was 'PS' because Sony never prominently used PSX in advertising material, it was only in the small print. And kids don't read that stuff. In fact, I doubt you were even meant to read it as 'pee ess ecks'.

>>10262548
I forgot to add: when the PS2 launched, everyone called it 'Pee Ess Two' rather than PlayStation 2, and everyone started retroactively calling the PlayStation the 'Pee Ess One' because it was the most logical. PSX died within a few years in writing, as did referring to the PS1 as simply 'the PlayStation' because it would lead to confusion. I knew of some people who referred to the PS2 as 'PlayStation' without the number.

>>10261193
Don't forget this.

I really can't comprehend how you zoomers can't understand the simple concept that everyone called it the PSX back in the day before the ps2 was a thing

>>10261417
>Being this far into denial
>Being this much of a contrarian
>Being this much of a hater

>>10262146
Couldn't be more wrong

>>10261065
>PSX (PS1) = PlayStation eXperiment.
>PSX (PS2) = PlayStation Cross (as in a PS2 crossed over with a DVR).
>PSX (PS3 onwards) = PlayStation eXperience.
It's that simple.

>>10262956
I can't believe Sony actually called three consoles the same thing, I thought it was only two.

>>10262863
Because it’s not true. Everyone called it “PlayStation”.

>>10262257
It's hand in hand: he started spamming the sega system shit when he got blown the fuck out about PSX. It was his attempt at a "gacha".

>nobody called the PS3 the PS Triple

this is what I'm going to call it in 10 years and I don't care what Sony called it, or what it says on the box/console

>>10262968
One of them was a event.

>>10262295
you're autistic.

>>10261070
>>10261069
>>10261065

psx2, late 1999.

>>10263082
So where is it?

>talked to friends on MSN and used PSX
>talked to strangers on forums and used PSX
>talked to friends IRL and used "play"
>talk to friends on Signal and still use PSX
>talk to strangers on 4chan and still use PSX
>talk to friends IRL and use "PS1"
simple as

I really love these threads because they always reveal how many people on this website have genuine non-internet meme insult autism, or were either not alive at the times they're trying to talk about, or already total social outcasts
PSX was a term used in text to identify the Playstation in the 90s, since "PS" could stand for numerous other things.
Playstation was what would be used if you were actually speaking to someone.
PS1 started coming into use to indicate which console you were talking about after Sony continued to keep using the Playstation brand for all their consoles. Also the mini Playstation being called the "PSOne" had no impact on this, because it was still just called a Playstation at the time, and the default option. If someone was talking about the Playstation 2 they would either say or type PS2
If, in 2023, you still call the PS1 a PSX, you have autism.
If you deny that PSX used to be text shorthand for the PS1, you are a zoomer.
If you think anyone ever said "come over to my house and check out this new PSX game I got" then you are either a zoomer or friendless loser.

>>10263754
>If, in 2023, you still call the PS1 a PSX, you have autism
No reason not to call it PSX when everyone'll know what you're talking about

>>10263832
it's better to call it a PS1 or PlayStation because not many people had the PSX, it was only released in japan

>>10263754
>*Massive wall of chatgtp generated text*
I'm not going to read all of that

>>10263847
100+ million people had a PSX; nobody knows or cares about a Japan-only DVR so there will be no confusion

>>10263860
Sony cared enough to make a website for it that's still up, you should email them that nobody cares about their DVR that never actually existed and everyone calls the PS1 a PSX now

http://www.psx.sony.co.jp/

>>10263876
lmfao psx denialists will never recover

>>10261193
I love how eloquent of a shutdown this is, says a lot of about the autists here that they just keep screeching at each other anyway. Literally living in their own reality.

>>10263876
Nobody knows or cares

>>10262668

There's hundreds of old Geocities and Tripod fan pages from the 90s that use the term.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990515000000*/http://geocities.com/Area51/4023/psx1.html

https://miked50.tripod.com/index.htm

I saw it frequently on sketchy 10000ANDSs OF ROMS N64 NES SNES PSX FREE sites, unfortunately most of them are lost to time. I think at this point the debate is more about whether it was spoken aloud

>>10261065
I honestly wished Sony worked a little more on the PSX DVR and offered it as a low-end/budget alternative to the PS3.

>>10263932
>I honestly wished Sony worked a little more on the PSX DVR and offered it as a low-end/budget alternative to the PS3.


The PS2 "PSX" was a product of its time. It's unique feature is that it functions like a DVR and could record gameplay footage from PS1, PS2 and PSP? Current consoles can stream/ record with little effort. So I don't see any use for this.

>>10262548
I said psx when referring to it and so did friends.

>>10261271
It was originally called "Playstation X" by Sony before they dropped the "X" by release.
It was abbreviated as PSX in all marketing material, dev tools, and even in the firmware of the fucking system.
People got use to the PSX abbreviation and it _DE FACTO_ (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto)) stuck regardless of the finalized name.
And since marketing was using PSX, the consumer base got used to it so they called it PSX as well.

>>10261065
>>10262175
I sorta got the gist that a lot of weirdos (and magazines) were calling it the PSX but that doesn't make it not weird. If I stopped reading the magazine it's just a PlayStation but the fact a lot of weirdos used the acronym PSX magically made the acronym into reality. An 'X' suddenly popped up OUTTA NOWHERE. Who made it? Where did it come from? No one knows.

>>10263876
/thread
PSX was an unofficial term that (mostly western) journalist clang to. Most people in the 90s barely used the internet, most people in the 90s (especially underage people) didn't use cell phones, and those who did use cell phones were yuppies who would mostly use them for talk, not texting. There were beepers but it was more of a novelty pretentious thing. So, in short, people didn't use text nearly as much back then as they do now, most communication was verbal. So, "playstation" was it, not "Pee Ess", nor "Pee Es Ecks".
Sony never used "PSX" in any sort of official packaging, they didn't even design any prototype logo with "PSX", it was always just PlayStation, and the logo of the console were just 2 letters: P and S.
PSX (or PS-X) was a codename, same as Ultra 64, Katana, VR32, Dolphin and many others. Clinging to PSX; especially when Sony actually released a PS2 model called PSX, to refer to the PS1, is just obstinate and crying "zoomer" is incorrect because zoomers won't care anyway.
This is about 2 different points of view: Those who prefer official terms (PS) and those who prefer to add an X for "cool factor". What are they trying to compensate for?

>>10264140
PS is confusing in a lot of contexts though, which is why pirates have been preferring PSX since the start of PlayStation piracy

>>10263832
Do you call it a PSX2, a PSX3, a PSX4 and a PSX5? No, you don't. So stop being autistic and use PS1 like everyone else does now, even in text.

I think I've figured this out.

>PSX seems fine to me
>GCN sounds completely retarded
> S.N.E.S. / snez could go either way

>>10264103
>Who made it?
Sony
>Where did it come from?
Sony
>No one knows.
It came from Sony themselves.

>>10263754
>If, in 2023, you still call the PS1 a PSX, you have autism
the fact that you think this is true reveals that you, yourself, do in fact have autism.
consider the fact that in 2023 we still "dial" telephone numbers despite the fact that rotary phones haven't been common for decades.
by your logic, this makes everyone alive autistic.
mental inflexibility to such a degree paired with a failure to understand sociohistorical context is the only actual autism here. you, as many others, display this clear hallmark sign of autism.

>>10263847
you are autistic.

>>10264229
I'm just reading the boxes and calling things what sony calls them and sells them as, you're doing the equivalent of calling the sky red because of social pressure like a woman

>People call every nintendo console "a nintendo"
>Nintendo comes out saying that there is no such thing, and that their consoles have approved denominations so their brand doesn't become public domain
>People call the PSX "the PSX" and even called the PS2 "the PSX2" early on
>Sony doesn't speak against it
Case fucking closed.

>>10262224
Meet me outside by the dumpster and I'll show ya, chump

>>10264235
if everyone alive starts calling the sky red and you alone refuse because of some retarded prescriptive notion of the purpose of words, it means you are autistic.

>>10261065
I was born in 1994 and I've always used written PS1 not PSX

>>10261065
because it was historically called the PSX

also >>10261070

>why are you calling it an "original xbox" or "OG xbox"? Just call it Xbox

Why is the Gamecube abbreviated with the N at the end? Does sticking the N at the end to close off the open C make it more pleasing to the eyes?

>>10264410
Same reason why Cortex has an N on his forehead

>>10264410
forgot image

>>10264431
>APPROVED: Boring names
>NOT APPROVED: Actually creative names
Nintendo is asia's disney in a bad way

>>10261457
nta, but why are the anon's here giving you flack
i grew up with similar stuff. I recall seeing PSX in some magazines, but in public, people just called it the 'PlayStation' around the place out of convenience. Even on TV ads it was just PlayStation and anytime my relatives talked about Crash, Tomb Raider or Spyro, they'd refer to the games being on the PlayStation.

PS1 only came around when PS2 was soon on the shelves. But even then, magazines still called it the PSX.

>>10262198
thats understandable.
in terms of abbreviation in text format, PSX would have made more sense to help identify the product more easily to avoid confusion, as you said. so its not like PSX was the ''norm'', it was just uttered to correct the identification of the product people are talking about.

ty anon. looks like we have our answer, so that ends the /thread.

>>10263754
based

>they hated him because he spoke the truth.

So are we playing the Sness or the Peesix at this sleepover?

>>10264165
This is fucking retarded logic, it's like saying I should call the Xbox 360 the OG Xbox 360 on principle. Please drink some water and take a seat

>>10264227
Hello randy retardo. People say dial a number because it's common spoken language. PSX was never used outside of text shorthand. No one ever said Pee-Es-Ex out loud or used it as anything other than a textual term to indicate the Sony Playstation. The term was replaced by PS1. Using PSX now is like still using ASCII emojis

>>10264549
>Using PSX now is like still using ASCII emojis
Funny because people still do, all major touchscreen keyboards have shortcuts for dozens of them: everything from your ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to your ಠ_ಠ; to the present day there is more expressivity with ASCII emoticons. Plus, typing ;_; is quicker than requesitioning the equivalent emoji, especially on a desktop computer.

>>10264549
>emojis
Emoticons, you fucking zoomie.

>>10264565
By dozens I mean 448, on Gboard at least.

PSX never existed back in the day, it was simply called a playstation and later on the ps. Now let me tell you kids about a machine called the control deck by Nintendo and the tapes we used to play on that...

>>10264565
>>10264578
I love how you retards keep proving my original post correct

It's like how Independence Day is called ID4.

https://old.reddit.com/r/psx/comments/zwsx7l/help_needed_for_psx_set_up/

>>10264543
Out loud I say Super Nintendo but I say NES because just "Nintendo" isn't specific enough and every time I've said that I needed to clarify that I'm talking about the old grey box with the cartridge slot in the front

You only used acronyms for previous consoles
>wanna come over and play nintendo?
>wanna come over and play sega
So when gaystation came out they said
>wanna come over and play sony
I personally called it playstation until ps2 came out and it became ps1 because sony to me meant stereos.

>>10264642
But ID4 was on the actual posters and merch of the movie.

>>10265331
I don't like r****t but this is based

Codemaster,s this was their official website, the best psx games developers with colin mcrae rally and colin mcrae rally 2.0

>>10261101
>Does it not matter at all what Sony themselves call their consoles

No I don't.

They can call the next one the George Floyd 6, I'm not gonna worship violence.

It says psone on my console so that's what it is. simple as.

>NOOOO YOU CANT CALL IT PSX, IT GIVES ME BRAIN ZAPS
>THE VIDEO GAME WORDS HAVE TO FIT INTO LITTLE LOGICAL BOXES BASED ON OFFICIAL SOURCES AND COMPANY INTENT OR ELSE I GET VERY UNCOMFORTABLE
>calls other people autistic

I'll call it psx because youre fucking gay and fuck your mom. Doesn't matter whats correct or not, suck dick autists

>>10262668
>>10261313
>>10261228
>>10261069

>>10263483
>>10263492
>>10263494
>>10263497
>>10263497
>>10263497
This, again? Mate?

>>10266164
it's more about knowing how to read and count than feeling uncomfortable over ambiguous things, anon

>>10266376
This.
You can call it PSZ for all I care, just don't yo around telling people that they're zoomers for pointing out PSX was never an official name until the PS2 DVR unit.

It's extremely possible for non-zoomers to not know about the PSX monicker. For example, my dad still plays PS1 games and he has since we got the console in 1996. He doesn't know about "PSX", as he never read any vidya magazine, or participed on old internet forums/mail listings, he just knows what's on the console itself and on the startup screen. So as far as he's concerned, it's PlayStation. He never saw any X anywhere. And he's a boomer, a literal one.

>>10261065
Basically OCD and autism.

Look what I bought today.

>>10267502
Nice unofficial memca, hope it doesn't wipe out your saves

>>10267513
Lol, right

>>10264549
>Using PSX now is like still using ASCII emojis
they're called emoticons, zoomie ;P

>>10267537
An ASCII smiley would be ;-P

>>10266169
>>10261070
>>10261069
>>10261065
https://www.milanuncios.com/consolas/psx.htm

>>10267752
And none of those are real PSX, what a scam

>>10267418
>ahyuck actually it was never an official name *slurp*
>the ps2 dvr unit officially released by sony ahyuck hmmmm

>>10267752
>>10267502
I wish I could find some random farmer from afghanistan selling N64s as Ultra 64s and post cope about it all day that it means they're ACTUALLY called Ultra 64 and you're just a retarded zoomer if you don't think so

>>10267543
both are acceptable, zoom zoom :)

>>10267780
>actually it was never an official name
Correct

>>10261065
Most people call is PS1, it's a very dedicated group of shitposters. Yes it's a slang name that was used by some people at some time. No it's not the name of the console any more than Project Natal is the name of Kinect

>>10267502
>patent pending
That's how you know its official merchandise lmao

>>10267942
Notice how you can't find even a single example of what you wish existed because you can't face facts.

>>10264476
>PSX was the ''norm''
It absolutely was the norm you faggot. People used PSX over PS by default. You didn't go "oh, this terms could be ambiguous, I better tack an 'X' on the end to be sure", everyone used PSX in the same way you just use NES without thinking about it.

>>10268241
what facts?

>>10268469
That PSX was a commonly used acronym.

>>10268483
It was a codename, it kind of stuck (mostly in the west), it was never officially endorsed by Sony and they used that name for the PS2 dvr

>>10268483
yes, and it was incorrect, the fact that it was commonly used by game journalists, some 3rd party developers, and bootleg memory cards doesn't magically make the console a "PSX"

and no, the very early codename for the console, PS-X (which is not PSX) and the bios/firmware having an X in the name doesn't magically warp reality and make the PlayStation a "PSX"

>>10268487
Thankfully autism wasn't invented yet in the 90s so there wasn't anyone saying "um ackshully Sony(pbuh) didn't officially sanction this acronym usage".
>>10268491
It was commonly used by everyone. Why does this make you so angry?

>>10268497
There is an actual console called the PSX, and I don't want to have to say which PSX I'm talking about when there's objective truth to what each console is actually called. We aren't living in 1998 where only one exists, so it's retarded and some muh nostalgia cope to pretend the console from 2005 never existed.

>>10268504
>There is an actual console called the PSX
That's an obscure piece of shit nobody bought released in one market. I know you have the tism but use a little bit of context clues.

>>10268505

>posting another development CD from a 3rd party developer
You realize the people writing PSX on the discs just didn't feel like having their newer CDs say PlayStation after the console actually released to avoid confusion, right? I bet I could find some N64 development shit that says Ultra 64 on it.

>no one bought it so it doesn't exist
Why are there so many used ones for sale on ebay, then? Why are there plenty of videos about restoring and modding them on youtube? If it didn't sell then there would be tons of NIB ones selling for almost nothing, but a used working PSX goes for around 400$.

>>10268521
>You realize the people writing PSX on the discs just didn't feel like having their newer CDs say PlayStation after the console actually released to avoid confusion, right?
Are you seriously making the argument that developers for Playstation wouldn't know the name of the console they're developing for?
>I bet I could find some N64 development shit that says Ultra 64 on it.
In what way would this disprove the mountains of evidence that PSX was a common acronym for the original Playstation?
>Why are there plenty of videos about restoring and modding them on youtube?
Because it's a piece of shit that doesn't work. There's a reason nobody bought it and nobody thinks of it when they read "PSX" unless they're someone who reads Wikipedia as the word of god and was born after 2000.

>>10268542
>if a console has hardware issues and wasn't popular enough for my standards then it doesn't exist and we can just use the name for something else, after 15+ years of hindsight to know not to use this acronym because it's the same of an actually released product from the same company

Who actually is more autistic here? This is a board for retro video games, not muh nostalgia coping that people called something a certain thing back in the 90s so we have to keep doing it now when we have more correct information.

>>10268552
>not muh nostalgia coping that people called something a certain thing back in the 90s so we have to keep doing it now when we have more correct information
Sony releasing a piece of shit nobody cares about with the same name as the most common acronym for the Playstation does not retroactively make PSX an unacceptable acronym. Especially when the DVR in question is a log of shit nobody owned and the Playstation sold millions. Just think about it in a non autistic way, are people referring to one of the best selling consoles of all time when they say "PSX" or are they referring to a faulty DVR in Japan that sold less than a million units?

>>10268552
Nobody knows or cares about the Japan-only DVR that bombed. Why is this thread still up?

>>10268552
>Who actually is more autistic here?
I'll just chime in to say that it's you. Nobody fucking cares about the DVR.
Retard.

>>10268572
>Sony releasing a piece of shit nobody cares about with the same name as the most common acronym for the Playstation
The most common acronym for the PlayStation is PS1. We are not currently living in 1997.

>>10268521
*Shitzo rant*
The cope is strong in this one.
His zoomie zoom zoom brain just doesn't understand.

>>10268575
>>10268579
It's less about the DVR unit and more about PSX being just an old codename that stuck and westerners decided to insist upon. Other consoles also had codenames, also we're called with their codenames for a while but people eventually understood that they were not official names, for some reason psx autists can't let it go, 30 years later. The DVR thing is just an extra that makes this behavior even funnier and weirder.

>>10268591
"did you know that PSX was the codename for Playstation before it released?" is the Doki Doki Panic of this discussion.

>>10268593
Kind of a weird comparison.

>>10268602
Not really. Everyone who has even a passing interest in the subject already knows and has known this for years, likely several decades. Yet every time without fail some retard will say it like it's in any way new and will change anyone's mind.

>>10268609
It's because there's still people pretending that psx is the correct way to the PlaStation acronym.

>>10268620
Why am I not surprised it's ESL zoomers who can't comprehend people using an acronym without expressed permission from from a corporation?

>>10268626
Of course it's fat anglo EOPs clinging to the psx nickname that was never on the console's packaging or design

>>10268629
>that was never on the console's packaging or design
What kind of actual golem gives a fuck?

>>10268634
He lives in Rocinha and uses popstarter to play PSX games

>>10268634
What kind of golem cares about what western journos called the console?

>>10268671
It's what Konami called the console on their Japanese website.

>>10268674
Ok, western journos and konami once or twice.
Here's what japanese magazines called the console, "PS": >>10261378

God, if you can't make people stop referring to it as the PSX, can you at least make me strong enough to withstand the stupidity?

>>10268702
>Here's what japanese magazines called the console, "PS"
Why should I care?

I call everything a nintendo

>>10268760
ironically more accurate than calling it a PSX

>>10268714
Likewise, why should anyone care about western journos?

>>10268791
Why? Everyone called it psx.

>>10268804
Nobody should, but they did use the same acronym as everyone else.

>>10268809
>everyone else
who? again most people in the 90s didn't text as much as people do nowadays. Unless you were writing pen and paper letters to friends, you'd talk on the phone or face to face. Communication was a lot more verbal back then.
It was PlayStation.
So that leaves the usage of "PSX" to western journos and a few nerds on usenet.

>>10268829
>Unless you were writing pen and paper letters to friends, you'd talk on the phone or face to face. Communication was a lot more verbal back then.
Never really thought about this. I wonder if this is related to the increase in autism.

>>10268829
so all of video game communication. And gamefaqs. And IGN. And by developers.

>>10268829
I know, things were better before people like you had access to the internet on your phone.
>So that leaves the usage of "PSX" to western journos and a few nerds on usenet.
And every game developer ever. And every website ever.

>>10268846
>so all of video game communication.
In the 90s? No, most video game communication with your friends was verbal, not written.
>gamefaqs, IGN
You were very lucky if you had access to the internet in the 90s.
ALso westie outlets.
>developers
Western ones. And maybe konami once or twice.
>And every game developer ever.
You sure? Every one?
You keep posting western ones.
>And every website ever.
Have you checked Sony's own PlayStation website from back in the 90s in the archives? It doesn't say "PSX" anywhere in it.

>>10268849
I think this is what they mean by PSX

>>10268870
this is not a playstation

compare to >>10261220

>>10268881
>PS-X (Code Name)
oof.
PSXisters... I don't feel so good

>>10268864
I know it's beyond your comprehension but try really hard to imagine a time where people used an acronym for something that wasn't approved by a corporation. I bet you shudder at the thought.

>>10268887
I'm fine with it. Call it whatever you want, just don't get mad when people who weren't there back in the day call it PS1, or point out "PSX" is the DVR PS2 unit.
I myself was there back in the day, I remember magazines calling it PSX. I never got it. I never used it online either, always typed either Playstation, or PS1 (by the time I got an internet connection, PS2 was already announced)

PS-X controllers look strange

>>10268897
Better d-pad than what we got and 6 face buttons. We were robbed.

>>10268629
Neither was PS1

>>10268918
Right, the PlayStation's logo is literally a P and an S.

>>10268864
Like when gamefaqs and ign started? Or when game magazines were at their peak? Or when email became huge? Were you even alive in the 90s?

>>10268931
Why would Sony use the abreviation of PostScript for its console?

>>10268978
you mean this?

>>10268943
>Were you even alive in the 90s?
Yes, and the internet was very small. Only a richfag schoolmate had internet in like 1995 or 96.
I first used the internet in 1998 or so at a friend's house, and got my first internet connection in 1999 at home. By then, the PS2 was already announced.
All my video game talk with friends was verbal, either on the phone or in person.

So turns out the PSXfags were all LARPing zoomers pretending to be using gamefaqs and ign right when these sites first launched?
Not surprised.

>>10268986
>By then, the PS2 was already announced.
And just like that overnight people instantly just stopped using the PSX acronym. That's definitely how the world works.

>>10268997
Evidently not, western journos kept using it.
>PS-X
well, that's accurate to the actual code name, at least.

>>10269015
And game developers. And every website ever.

>>10268989
They're all shitposters and one is literally auster, one of the most active shitposting non-contributors to this site.

>Durr why is it called a PSX when it was called a PSX?

>>10269023
>And game developers.
Western ones, or western branches.
>And every website ever.
Have you checked Sony's own PlayStation website from back in the 90s in the archives? It doesn't say "PSX" anywhere in it.

>>10269030
It was never called a PSX. PS-X was a code name and western journalists thought it looked cool. In Japan it's PS, Sony themselves never clarified any official way to write it, but the logo is called "The PS logo", which should give you a clue.

>>10269034
>Western ones, or western branches
Not exclusively and not an argument anyway.
>Have you checked Sony's own PlayStation website from back in the 90s in the archives?
No because nobody cares.

>>10268986
The internet was so big by 2000 that it was a giant bubble that burst.

>>10269041
>No because nobody cares.
So why should I care about an old Konami archive or a Ridge Racer ranking initials, but not Sony themselves who made the system?
It's like you keep making excuses on the go.
Again, nobody is saying PSX was never used, it was just very prevalent in western journalism (and a handful of japanese occassions), and PS-X is, indeed, the code name of the console.
Ultra 64 was also still used even after the release of the N64, by magazines, or by internet users, and Nintendo themselves kept the "NUS" catalog code for all of the N64 products. And if someone today calls it "Ultra 64", that's fine by me too. But if someone would go out of their way and starts REEEing "Noooo STOP calling it the N64, it's the Ultra! you're a zoomer!! I was using the internet in 1996!!!" then yeah I will make fun of them.

>>10269036
But literally nobody is saying Sony officially called it the PSX. You're just being an asshole on purpose at this point.

>>10269054
>So why should I care about an old Konami archive or a Ridge Racer ranking initials, but not Sony themselves who made the system?
"why should I care what the vast majority call it when the minority disagrees?" Truly a mystery that one.
>Ultra 64 was also still used even after the release of the N64, by magazines, or by internet users, and Nintendo themselves kept the "NUS" catalog code for all of the N64 products
Nobody called it the Ultra64. You already tried this nonsense several times earlier in the thread and failed hard.

>>10268984
>>10269036
But why insist its PS1 the as Sony never called it that. Should be just PS.

>>10269069
they kind of did though with the PSOne, which came out after the PS2, so it just makes sense to call the "fat" version the PS1 today

>>10269072
Twisting things until it fits your narative, the psone is a distinct device compatible with the regular playstation.

Calling the original playstation the psone is not correct

>>10261193
Zoomer status:
>told

>>10269065
>Nobody called it the Ultra64.
2 can play this game.
>>10269059
>But literally nobody is saying Sony officially called it the PSX.
I mentioned Sony because the argument is that unofficial outlets called it PSX so it's "legit". Nobody here says that PSX wasn't used either. What's being questioned ITT is why some people decide to cling to it AND be bitter to those who point out PSX was the name of a DVR unit (as obscure as it was). Yes, PSX was used by magazines, so was Ultra 64.

>>10269250
>so was Ultra 64
Even after hours of desperate searching all you could find was some bootleg region converter with sticker that says Ultra on it. So I'm calling bullshit on that. Also here's an N64 prototype that has the NUS code for the cartridge itself and the N64 acronym.

>>10269261
>Even after hours of desperate searching
lmao, no, I was playing a game. Just did a quick search for ultra 64 and that image came up, I'm not going to make a folder with screenshots of usenet or old websites like you did with psx, it's not something that important to me.
You also posted a bunch of bootleg memory cards for the PS.
And what exactly are you trying to prove with the pic you posted? the fact Nintendo kept using NUS proves that Ultra was even more of a factor than PSX was, as it was printed in practically every N64 product, whereas PS-X (and not PSX) was only on the PS's bios? maybe? can't remember, but definitely not anywhere visible on the system or its items.

>>10269278
>the fact Nintendo kept using NUS proves that Ultra was even more of a factor than PSX was
Nobody called it that though. Hence the N64 acronym being on the same cart.

>>10269286
And here I thought they were just fans of nwa

>>10269286
>Nobody called it that though.
I clearly remember people calling it "the ultra" though, it was definitely used, even in the early 00s.
Again it's not something that important to me, I'm not going to go to archive.org and search for old forums I used to visit, but if you claim nobody used "Ultra", then you lost your credibility, since you claimed to have been an early internet adopter. If you were online in between 1996 and 2002 or so, you definitely read people calling it Ultra 64.

>>10269298
>I clearly remember people calling it "the ultra" though, it was definitely used, even in the early 00s.
Maybe in your special ed classes but this anecdotal evidence you made up just now means nothing.
>If you were online in between 1996 and 2002 or so, you definitely read people calling it Ultra 64
Didn't you say earlier you only had access to the internet starting in 1999?

>>10269310
>Maybe in your special ed classes
projecting?
>but this anecdotal evidence you made up just now means nothing.
If we're being completely honest, this whole thread means nothing. You are angry at people not approving of you using PSX in 2023, and I'm mostly playing the devil's advocate by defending zoomers as to why they are correct in calling it PS1 instead of PSX. I honestly don't really care how people call it, even though it should be PS.
>Didn't you say earlier you only had access to the internet starting in 1999?
I didn't? probably a different anon. But I first had access to the internet around 1995 in school (and I didn't browse any video game site then), didn't really got a connection at home until 2002. I just assume that, since people were calling it Ultra in 2002, they probably also were back in 1996.

>>10269320
>I honestly don't really care how people call it
I think the "I definitely don't care at all about this subject" ship sailed 20 posts ago.
>since people were calling it Ultra in 2002
Why make up such obvious bullshit like this?

>>10261101
>Does it not matter at all what Sony themselves call their consoles
No. Nintendo calls the Gamecube "GCN", but no one else does.

>>10269324
>I think the "I definitely don't care at all about this subject" ship sailed 20 posts ago.
I said I don't care about how people call it (while you do, as you think anyone not calling it psx is a zoomer).
>Why make up such obvious bullshit like this?
What about it seems unbelievable to you?
Ultra 64 even has an official logo. It stuck in people's minds for a while even after it changed the name.
Maybe tomorrow, if I feel like it, I will search old internet sites that called it Ultra. Right now I have to leave for a date with my gf.

thread for virgins
I sleep

>>10269357
>What about it seems unbelievable to you?
I would say someone blatantly making shit up in a thread on /vr/ like this is unbelievable but there's plenty of autistic tards who do that on this board.
>Right now I have to leave for a date with my gf
Case in point.

>>10269250
everyone called it psx though. not just some small circle of people like you are trying to mislead us into believing
>>10269278
gamefaqs and ign are still current sites.

>>10269368
>if I don't have a gf, then nobody else can.
As I said, if I remember, and I feel like it, I will look for old archived websites that called it the Ultra.
But what will you say then? probably will come up with more excuses.
I even already told you it's fine if you want to call it PSX, as long as we know it's not official, I think we should agree at least on that.

>>10269395
>I'm not conceding, I'll just be back with proof for real maybe if I can fit it into my incredibly busy schedule (thirtieth post made within the past 2 hours)
Every time.

>>10269415
>incredibly busy schedule
Not really, tomorrow I'll be free all day, it has more to do with how much will I care by that point.
>nooo you can't say you don't care if you're posting right now!
Yes I can. Making posts on here is not the same as doing autistic collage of screenshots from archived websites. But again, maybe I will do it, if I'm bored enough. Even if I know you will still find a way to deny it.

>>10268542
>>10268505
love to see alpha and beta games, cool stuff anon.

>>10268829
>>10268829
>who? again most people in the 90s didn't text as much as people do nowadays. Unless you were writing pen and paper letters to friends, you'd talk on the phone or face to face. Communication was a lot more verbal back then.
>So that leaves the usage of "PSX" to western journos and a few nerds on usenet.

>>10269432
I don't think we got it yet, remind us again how you definitely totally absolutely do not care and will only attempt to post proof of shit you made up in this thread if you are absolutely bored enough. You are definitely cool and above it all as you make your 50th post on the subject.

>>10267426
I'm a third world millennial. Nobody here ever called the PlayStation the PSX in public back then, ever. Maybe behind the scenes where people hung around online and by mail, sure, probably and most likely, but those kinds of groups hardly existed here.

And even then, logically, you saw the cover of the box for your games and noticed that it said; "PlayStation", and you referred to it as such.
People can say tabloids, devs and such used PSX all the way through its history, but just because one side of the world says "this" bit of history was absolute fact doesn't mean everyone was in agreement. If anything, this thread exposes that not everyone grew up in the same environments like we thought. The PlayStation brand was unique in that it went into the rooms of so many places that to simply expect everyone believed and said the same thing is ridiculous.

Some people said PSX, some said PlayStation/PS and in later years, referred to it as the PS1, or a mix of both. Its as simple as that.

>>10268292
The PSX acronym was the 'norm' because the PS2 had no come around yet. A lot of folk thought that the next console was never even going to exist so it stuck.

>>10269072
PSOne was usually referred to the smaller model that was revised.
Sometimes you had randos called the PlayStation the PSO instead of X but that didn't matter once the PS2 got announced.

>Soulless drones who obey corporations are STILL arguing against the historical fact that people referred to the original playstation as PSX
You know you're not a complete person, right?

>>10269897
you forget that the whole world back in the mid 90s wasn't completely globalised right? not everyone went along with what corporations and midwits said, and not everyone referred to the console as a PSX, unless they were goosewalking anglos stating that their history was what everyone in the corner of the world believed in.

>>10269905
>the whole world back in the mid 90s wasn't completely globalised right?
I'm not even from the anglosphere and we had the acronym PSX over here. Because we were there.

>>10269914
was your acronym relegated to your IT facilities for some outsourcing company or was it also an acronym used by every farmer in your country too without an internet? because it sure as fuck wasn't where i was.

>>10269919
Anglos are the most stupid humans in the world.

>>10261281
Uhm ackshually it's Nintendo 64 Game Paks.

>>10261065
>nintendo gamecube
>GCN
why?

>>10270508
NGC was already in use by National Geographic Channel

>>10270508
NGC = NeoGeo Color, apparently

After reading most of the replies in this thread there seems to be quite some confusion on what actually happened back then.
I had a managerial role in one of the major retail stores back then (yes I'm old) but PSX was the written abreviation we always used to refer to the PlayStation back then.

This post will probably be ignored (again) by the tinfoil hat PS1 believers but whatever, I don't care

>>10261065
I still habitually call is psx because magazines called it that
I had no idea it’s such a contentious topic

>>10270537
We don't live in "back then" where everyone called the system the codename from this development box >>10268881 because it didn't conflict with anything, now we live in a point where there's a PSOne, PS2, PSX (the real one), PS3, etc.

There's no reason to keep calling it that unless it's some cope about being superior to others because you're a Le 90s Kid and want to show off that you're old and remember things that those damn zoomers who shouldn't ever get to play superior retro games don't. Or, if you're an ABDL who can't grow up and accept that new consoles have came out since the 90s so you close off your mind to new information.

>>10270634
Basically real humans use PSX and soulless drones who read Wikipedia and Sony press releases as the word of god say PS1.

>>10270673
go back to r/psx, put your diaper back on, and suck on your PSX controller, the past 15 years won't hurt you

>>10270683
You find those websites that all say "ultra" to refer to N64 yet?

>>10270634
>There's no reason to keep calling it that unless it's some cope about being superior to others

Lel, there is some massive cope right there. People are no longer supposed to use a specific abreviation because it hurts your feelings.
And all that on a retro board even.
Must suck to be (You)

>>10270714
Yeah it's just cope and not about the schizo calling everyone he disagrees with a zoomer.

>>10270723
What is the disagreement exactly? You already backtracked to admitting PSX is a common acronym. You just want people to stop using it because your autism addled mind can't figure out when people use that acronym they're not referring to some obscure piece of shit.

nobody called it saint seiya,
EVERYBODY CALL IT:

CABALLEROS DEL ZODIACO

>>10270745
That was a different anon. Anyways, https://youtu.be/eSs9HTq8Xfo
563K views on a video about a basic repair on this obscure piece of shit that nobody cares about and never existed. Does the title trigger you by calling it a piece of history? It's basically a PS2.5 and has an XMB like the PSP and PS3 did, the first usage of it. I don't think Sony would try to memory hole the existence of this console to please some bitchy westerners and protect their fragile nostalgia.

>>10270985
>563K views
That's more views than units sold of this piece of shit.

>>10270987
You're as bitter as some boomer who misses when asbestos and radium water was thought of as the coolest thing by "everyone" and would call anyone who thought you were wrong as autistic.

>>10270634
The real acronym for the playstation is PSX.

>>10270993
>You're as bitter
Nobody is bitter. You're just retarded and obviously wrong. You are clearly bitter, though.

When I was a kid in the 90s, I regularly saw "PSX" used in the gaming magazines and those mail-order ads. I'm assuming that's where everybody picked it up. At the time I myself even wondered why it was PSX and not just PS, but I always figured it was some like, insider industry term because of order codes or model number revisions or whatever.

Later, when the PS2 came out, with the term PS2 itself being an official name for the console (it literally said it on the side), it retroactively made sense to call the PSX the PS1, and I observed PSX fall out of favour as the most common abbreviation. Fucking nobody even knew about the actual PSX from OP's picture.

TL;DR like most language it doesn't even really have logic behind it, it's just the term that caught on. Don't over think it.

>>10271017
People didn't use PS because in conversational text in a magazine or over the internet, it looks dumb. Looks like you're typing "post script" over and over again. PSX has the advantage of being distinct and is just as short as every other acronym.

>>10271038
this thread isn't about what people used in the past (when everyone does something, it doesn't automatically mean it's right), it's about what is the correct acronym, and since there's currently two consoles called PSX, it's objectively wrong

The pic in the OP is the only picture anyone ever posts of the damn thing. That in addition to the fact it's in a display case and that no-one ever talks about owning one made me believe for years that it was the only one they ever made like some one of a kind demo model. It was only a few years ago someone pointed out that they were actually sold at retail. Even now they're only ever discussed in relation to the name conflict.

Compare that to the Panasonic Gamecube. It's somehow even rarer but used to be much more discussed and recognisable.

>>10271043
No it isn't. PSX means the first playstation console. This thread is about that, nobody cares about a modified PS2 released in one country.

I'm gonna start calling it the SPS (Sony PlayStation) just to add a new wrinkle and piss more of you fags off

>>10271050
I think that nobody is just you and a group of redditors on r/psx in denial, anon

people buy these, repair them, and mod them, it's going to keep happening and they will become more popular over time as new mods are possible, and they will make fun of people like you who desperately cling onto nostalgia and spam south american game catalog scans and beta CDs from before the PSX release as some kind of proof that this system didn't exist

>>10271057
You don't think. And nobody is going to stop calling the PSX the PSX, or start thinking of a modified PS2 as the PSX.

>>10270985
>563K views on a channel with 1.5 million subscribers is supposed to prove something.
Not sure what this proves exactly? There are videos out there that have millions of views on the most obscure shit possible only because of a high subscriber count.
You are grasping at straws and are just embarrassing yourself here.

>>10271047
The Q was also only released in Japan and seems to have only sold 100k units. The best info I can find for the PSX was 250k units, which is more, so it is strange that it's less well known than the other. Maybe import shops in the rest of the world sold more of the Q because the other consoles at the time could play already DVDs while the Gamecube couldn't, so it was a bigger upgrade. The Q was also like ~300 USD while the PSX was around ~850 USD. There isn't a cult of people calling the Gamecube a Q or Dolphin, though.

>>10271086
>There isn't a cult of people calling the Gamecube a Q or Dolphin, though.
Those aren't acronyms my 85 IQ friend.

>>10271086
The people who would even want to buy an expensive console like that probably weren't gamers in the first place. They'd be interested in a multimedia machine where they just interpret gaming as another type of media instead of as the point of a gaming console. Despite hype about DVD playback and other media features in the PS2, most people in fact interpreted it as a gaming console for games.

>>10271093
Is that your cope for the PSX outselling the Q?

pretty sure that console was called:

LA PLAY
LA PLEY
or
La pley uno