/vr/ - Retro Games

Why do you call it a PS1 when it was only called PS1 after the PS2 was announced? Before it was called PS or PSX.

>PS1
>Not PSone
Even though it's just the name for the slim model, it feels more fitting somehow.

PS1:Clearly communicates the system to which you're referring
PS:Also acceptable
PSX:full retard

>>1517261
>>1517272
>I read an article on wikipedia, I'm so knowledgeable

Fuck off to /v/ underaged scum, everyone called it PSX.

>>1517261
this is the ultimate b8 thread on /v/, post it there instead

>>1517272
Were you not even alive when it was a current console or something?
Talk about going full retard, christ.

It was known as the PSX for a while until it was released. If I remember correctly, people behind the thing called it the PSX, so it caught on.

Why do people call the PSX "PS1" when it's a completely different thing?

>>1517293
That's the PSone. The PS1 is the regular model.

Ya Niggas posting in a troll thread

>>1517261
During development the original system was known as Playstation X but for some reason Sony dropped the X before the system was released. However gaming journalists at the time (gaming magazines in particular) kept using the acronym PSX and most gamers also kept using it on internets all the way up to the time Playstation 2 and PSOne, the new resigned version of the original Playstation was released. At this point the acronyms and their meaning were crystal clear to everyone PSX meant the original bigger version of the original Playstation and the new smaller redesign of it was referred as PS1.

Yes, there was another box called PSX in Japan. No one bought it and it wasn't and still isn't anyway relevant to the rest of the world apart from underage shitposters on internet forums.

I bought a ps1 the day it came out the year I graduated highschool. I called it the playstation. After the ps2 came out, I called it the ps1.

I have quite literally never heard the system referred to as the psx anywhere during my entire life outside of 4chan. Also,
>caring

So, it's that time of the month, uh?

Question to people calling the original Playstation PS1: What do you guys call the original Xbox?

>>1517325
Xbox. Or original xbox, or xbox huge.
An xbox 360 is a "360", and an xbox one is an xbone. The original xbox would have been the xbox one, of microsoft hadn't used the name for their new console.
Though I called the ps1 a "sony" when it first came out, but now say "ps1" when talking about the first playstation. I use psx as a generic term for all playstations, or all versions of the ps1 depending upon the situation.

>>1517325
Xbox,duh

>>1517325
Xbox 1

Because that's what my cheat code book called it when I was a kid.

>>1517314
Only on 4chan can someone get this devastated over something so ridiculously inane.
Just wow...

>use the term PSX like all the gaming magazines from the 90s and most people who actually owned the original grey Playstation before Playstation 2 and the PSOne were released and some retard has to come over and "educate" me about that DVD player prototype no fucking one owns or gives a fuck about
>Ask people about their favorite Playstation games and they start talking about PS2 and PS3 games
>Use the term PS1 or PSOne and someone comes and says how I should just call it Playstation or PSX which leads back to the previous problems
I'm so fucking tired of this Playstation/PS/PSX/PS1/PSOne/PSX(that other one) bullshit and challenge /vr/ to came up with a term everyone can agree with.

>>1517325
I refer to it as "the original xbox" and to the 360 as just "xbox." It doesn't get confusing because nobody I know ever owned the original.

PS-X is the first codename for the Playstation, standing for either Playstation Experimental or Playstation Expansion, depending on your source. Sony itself never referred to the console as PSX since then, but it stuck.

Because they're used to it, it's easier to type, and only even fringier people than the outliers who still say PSX know or care what that particular PSX is.

http://web.archive.org/web/19980121115052/http://www.gamepro.com/whatsnew.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19981206015609/http://www.gameinformer.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990129065047/http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/psx/xg/xg.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990508132652/http://psxextreme.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19991010205328/http://gamefaqs.com/console/psx/
http://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/28/history-of-the-playstation
Also, see Google Groups; do a web search of 'site:thegia.psy-q.ch/ psx'; and read back issues of magazines like those whose archived sites are linked above.

>>1517325
Xbox one, oh wait...

To make this more /vr/ related what do you guys call the NES to tell it apart from the other Nintendo systems? Obviously you use NES on internets but I mean when talking to others IRL?
I use "regular Nintendo"

>>1517359
>nobody I know ever owned the original
Really? Where I live it was the opposite, everyone had an xbox. Ps2 was for poor people and mexicans.

Its an easy way to spot newfags who don't know what they are talking about. Anyone who doesn't call the Playstation PSX wasn't actually around in the Playstation era.

>>1517378
Nes (En-ee-es)
Snes (snes)
N64 (en-sixty four)
Gamecube
wii

>>1517378
I know one kid who had an xbox. It was an ugly, oversized thing, but playing splitscreen Halo as a team against an other splitscreen team over the interwebs WAS cool. But everyone else I knew, myself included, were early adopter PS2 owners. We had a PS2 before anyone even knew what an XBOX was.

Every gaming magazine at the time called it the PSX.

>>1517372
still NES [nez]

>>1517378
Only the people who didn't have a decent PC had an Xbox

>>1517378
How popular was the original Xbox in the states? All I know I have NEVER seen anyone owning one here in Finland and the only people who owned 360 were idorts owning all systems from that generation

>>1517261
Because the term PSX was already in widespread use to refer to the PlayStation before the PSX was announced, plus the PSX was never released outside of Japan so no one realyl cares about it.

The only people who do care are the people who think they're being clever by pointing out things we all know.

The X makes it sound cool.

>>1517402
It was rather popular here. the FPSs sold it pretty well, but the PS2 still destroyed it in sales here. I know far more people that had a PS2 compared to an xbox. I think its a console that never really did too well outside the states.

>>1517304
No, the PlayStation is the regular model.

>>1517435
There are tons of great games on the Xbox. It's sad that people only see it as "the Halo console" when there's so much more to it. Most notably, Sega treated it like a second Dreamcast for a while and released a bunch of games for it.

>>1517275
>ePSXe
>best
>not PSXFin

>>1517325
The first console is an X-Box 1, and the new one is an X-Bone.

I remember game magazines used the term in their reviews, this was in 1997-8

>>1517385
>Nes (En-ee-es)
>Snes (snes)
NOBODY said these in the actual time these were current. The acronyms may have been used in magazines but in speech they were the 'Nintendo' and 'Super Nintendo' to all.

This stems back to Nintendos and Sony former partnership in the 16-bit era. There was a planned SNES-CD add on as well as a stand alone console in development, which they called the playstation.
When Nintendo blind sided Sony, they decided to retool their console and rebranded it internally as that playstationX. This is still evident in the serial numbers of games where they all start with PSX with a number, which is the main reason the acronym is used. We actually see the same thing with the GameCube where the serial number of games all start with GCN.

Why would anyone call it the Playstation ONE when tehre was no Playstation Two?

Not to mention, the Playstation was the only console to follow numerical values, so you can't even say there was a precedent for it

Everyone abbreviated it as PSX, and since it was so popular of a name, they named that thing in OP PSX.

>Why not just PS?

Because people prefer three letter abbreviations

>>1517353
>Someone has an opposing view
>Better call them butthurt to make my side appear stronger

Keep fighting the good fight.

>>1517356
>challenge /vr/ to came up with a term everyone can agree with.
Why would we want to agree on everything? Why not challenge /vr/ to accept that not everyone is exactly like them?

I lived in the time and I thought 'PSX' was stupid when I read it in magazines. It's a letter that stands for nothing.

Retroactively I do call it a PS1.

>>1517478
Once you get it all properly configured then yes its the best. I almost gave up on it after getting a new tower and finding out epsxe had to be completely reconfigured top to bottom.

In the end it was worth it (in windows 7 you have to compress the games to the ECM format or they stutter upon loading and most people dont know this)

PSXFin is great, i use it for my laptop but Epsxe can be enhanced so I run it on my main. Nothing personal, just the way that it is

nes
snes
nintendo 64
ps1

called snes "super nintendo" and ps1 "playstation" as a kid but don't anymore

>>1517402
I'm from Norway and got an Xbox one year after it launched because Rare was my favorite company at the time and I hoped they would continue with quality game output. ;_;

It was basically the continuation of Dreamcast, in addition to having lots of non-Sega obscure exclusives thanks to Microsoft's vain attempts at getting in on the Japanese market, and the homebrew scene was on a completely different level from everything else.

Only knew one other person who had the console.

"PS-X (PlayStation Experimental) was an internal code name for the PlayStation during development. The popular use of the "PSX" abbreviation outside Sony became a source of confusion when Sony introduced its PSX digital video recorder in 2003."

Anyone who grew up in the 90's and played games remembers the psx nickname.

>>1517562
Holy shit, thank you so much! I've been trying to get Chrono Trigger to work for epsxe for months but the fucking thing kept having major stutter. Now it works great.

>>1517582
>Anyone who grew up in the 90's and played games remembers the psx nickname.

Duh. It's why I (and everyone else) should stop posting in these threads. They're either:

1) Made by people who actually didn't play games/read game magazines/read game websites
2) Trolls
3) Idiots

>>1517385
>Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo
Regular Nintendo

>Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo
Super Nintendo
Super

>Sega Genesis
Sega

>Nintendo 64
N64
The 64

>Sony PlayStation
PlayStation
PS
PSX

I've convinced myself that anyone who referred these by any other names when they were current lived in an area with a weird dialect, or are not from the United States.

>>1517478
>>1517562
>tinkering around in open source /g/ recommended emulators for an hour
>making sure everything is right
>tons of glitches, game runs badly

>use epsxe
>it just werks

>>1517385
Meant for
>>1517372

>>1517495
He was asking about now. When they were still current gen I just said nintendo. Then again I only knew one person with a snes.

>>1517478
pSX is a dead project. Mednafen PSX is better and is open source

I actually just read a great article about the development and release of the Playstation that said most of SCEI was about losing their shit over the fact that the name "Playstation" was testing negatively with their magic 17 year old focus groups because of having the word "Play" in it and they were more or less about to pull the trigger on changing all branding unilaterally to PSX but one of the REALLY big guys at Sony International said "That's nothing. You should have heard what they said about Walkman" and that was that.

Based Sony changed the game.

>>1517618
Console names according to parents/friends
>nes
Nintendo
Nes
Atari
>snes
Nintendo
Super nintendo
Gameboy
Snes
>N64
N64
Nintendo
Gameboy
>genesis
Sega
Genesis
Nintendo
>gamegear
Sega
Gamegear
Gameboy
Sega gameboy
Genesis
>playstation
Sony
Playstation
Psx
Ps
Nintendo
Gameboy

>>1517602
Its an issue with most Win7 installs, it has something to do with how the padding in an ISO is handled differently now as apposed to how it was in the 90s.

ECM essentially removes the padding

>>1517495
>NOBODY said these in the actual time these were current.

So?

I always called the first Playstation PSX. The actual PSX was only released in Japan and not many people outside of Japan knew what it was at the time.

The first Playstation will always be PSX to me.

When I talk about it I say Playstation. I type it out PSX because it's easier as well as engraved into my mind.

>>1517562
I'm almost positive that you're the first person on /vr/ to admit that ePSXe is a functioning emulator, let alone claiming to use it. This makes me happy.

>>1517562
>>1517663
Browsing through this shit tier thread was worth it for this piece of information. I FINALLY figured out why ePSXe never worked for me on Windows 7 which is something I have been wondering for years.

>>1517272
We called it the PSX because the name stuck. Developers' intentions have no bearing on this. Random internet strangers have no bearing on this. A device released years later that you saw on wikipedia has no bearing on this.

>>1517275
>everyone called it PSX

Except for, you know, Sony.

I love how every time this comes up the only argument pro-PSX side has is "That's what we called it in middle school" and a screenshot of some buried menu that 99.99% of users never see.

Real academic, guys.

>>1517778
It's because PCSX-Reloaded is better in every way now

>>1517813
>pro-PSX side
A majority of the "pro-PSX side" thinks you should call it whatever you're familiar with, however much it upsets you to accept that people have lived in different places with different terms.

>>1517813
We could and have posted piles and piles of magazine articles, not the least of which is the whole PSX magazine et all. You can check IGN and Gamefaqs on the Wayback machine if you'd like. We've done this to death just check the foolz archive. We're not even bothering to argue at this point since we know we're right.

What is the difference between PS1 and PSX?

I have never seen that thing in OP's pic before.

>>1517829
>we know we're right.

Except you aren't.

Sony called it the PlayStation.

That means it's the PlayStation.

End of story.

>m-muh magazine articles

And? Is there some physical force stopping magazine editors fro being wrong?

>>1517261
Because they're morons.

>>1517846
Except Sony DID call it the PSX quite often, especially before launch.

What does the X stand for in PSX?

>>1517796
Sony internally referred to it as the PSX all the time.

>>1517823
>you should call it whatever you're familiar with

But that no longer works when there is a console officially designated PSX.

You guys are no different from my mother when she refers to USB drives as ZIP drives.

If you want to use some queer nickname, fine. Go for it. But don't pretend it's correct.

>>1517859

Why can't people just call it whatever they want? I call my SNES "Super NES".

>>1517850
>>1517851

Again, nicknames =/= legitimate designation.

At one point in very early development it was called the SNES CD. But that project died, so the name died. Apparently a lot of people missed the memo the second time that happened.

>>1517846
When you come to the conclusion that every single opposing citation (including the official magazine and Sony's own documentation) is a mistake, you should probably reconsider your arguments.

>>1517859
>If you want to use some queer nickname, fine. Go for it.
... Then why are you here pissing and moaning if it's fine?

>>1517864
>I call my SNES "Super NES".
MUH CASUAL PLEB AUTIST

>>1517859
Yeah all my friends get confused when I type PSX and think I'm referring to their PS2 based DVRs because they all have them.

Nah, just kidding. They get confused because they're all 15 year olds who have to look shit up on Wikipedia to feel like they know what they're talking about.

>>1517864
>I call my SNES "Super NES".

That's perfectly reasonable because you are simply spelling out one of the words in the acronym.

There is no 'X' in the original PlayStation, and there never will be.

>>1517651

my parents call every game console nintendo

>>1517869
Forgot to throw "shill" in there...

>>1517869
>... Then why are you here pissing and moaning if it's fine?

Because people aren't using it as a nickname, they're trying to pretend that that's what it's really designated.

>>1517846
It is abbreviated "PSX" pre-2000, "PS1" was only used post-2000.

Most people alive during the 90s used "PSX" because it was less vague than "PS". It should be of no surprise it's still used today. No one has stopped using it because a few autists don't like it. You're just going to have to deal with it son, PSX is here to stay.

>>1517868
>and Sony's own documentation

That's interesting, because I have an original PlayStation CIB and I don't see 'PSX' on the console, the box, or the manual.

>>1517875
Yeah, sometimes I like to talk about my Game Cube Nintendo and nobody looks at me like I have a learning disability.

>>1517887
He means leaked internal documentation of the hardware

>>1517870

>m-muh wikipedia

The really funny thing is that even fucking Wikipedia of all places can get it right, but not you sperglords.

>>1517886
>It is abbreviated "PSX" pre-2000,

.......Where?

I look at this image and all I see is PlayStation.

Funny, that.

>>1517894
Because "fucking Wikipedia" provides an amazing perception of actually living in the 90s. I bet you use that to cite college papers, too.

>>1517886
>because it was less vague than "PS"

How? There were no other game consoles in that era that used 'PS' so I don't see how that simplifies anything.

>No one has stopped using it because a few autists don't like it.

The autists are the people who knowingly use a incorrect name simply because of nostalgia.

>PSX is here to stay.

I have never heard anyone under 35 say 'PSX'.

It's going to go the way of the dodo.

>>1517903
>actually living in the 90s.

And again you resort to the 'That's what we called it in middle school" argument.

God, I love these threads.

>>1517849
>What does the X stand for in PSX?

see
>>1517314
>>1517367
>>1517582

I remember people referring to the PS1 as the PSX at some point before the PS2, and not to describe OP's pic.

I think it was a slang way of telling apart the versions that came out, obviously saying PS1 wouldn't have made sense before there was a successor but keep sperging about things you can't remember anyway.

>>1517907
Dear lord at all this autism

You definitely weren't alive in the 90s, or else you wouldn't be so determined to make people stop using "incorrect" abbreviations. Go to bed kid, you're not fooling anyone.

>Sony spergs still whine whenever someone calls a Playstation a PSX

Haha oh wow. Easily the worst vidya userbase of all time.

>>1517907
>I have never heard anyone under 35 say 'PSX'.
I'm 22 and call it PSX as everyone in that time

>>1517914
I was in high school, but go ahead and hide within semantics. An entire generation called it the PSX and your bothered Google authority nor a DVR released later won't affect that. Read that last sentence with assertiveness.

>>1517907
I'm 24 and I've been calling it the PSX since Suikoden.

This is my go-to response.

https://web.archive.org/web/19981212020553/http://psx.ign.com/

>psx.ign.com
>Dec. 12, 1998

>>1517261
OP you are a lazy troll. Step it up.

>>1518000
>You definitely weren't alive in the 90s,

I very much was.

>"incorrect"

Why are you putting that in quotation marks? It objectively is incorrect.>>1518000

>Go to bed kid

Pic related

Way to get trolled /vr/, I bet you start having "feminism" threads next since it's what the cool kids at /v/ are doing nowadays?

I genuinely through you guys were better than this but I guess i was wrong, this place is just as bad as /v/.

>>1518018
>An entire generation called it the PSX

Again, completely irrelevant.

Calling a tree a bush doesn't make it a bush.

Back then, everyone called it PSX. It was kind of a semi-official name and even magazines were using it. I have no problem when people keep calling it PS1 or whatever, but if you insist that PSX is "wrong" for whatever reason, you just look like someone who wasn't around when the PSX actually was a thing and I'm pretty sure other people feel the same.

>>1517887
>>1517897

Still waiting for someone to answer these.

>>1518049
>this place is just as bad as /v/.

Meh. the whole "We are better than /v/!" was true for maybe the first 2 or 3 months. Then /v/ discovered this place and got exactly the same just with older games.

>>1518059
Pre-release codename and continued shorthand for the console in the media.

Helps if you fucking kids were actually ALIVE back then. It amuses me how today's fucking kids can't accept things that actually happened back in the old days because of some flawed perception.

>>1518059

Read the following posts
>>1517314
>>1517367
>>1517582

PSX is old fag language. You can tell if somebody is new to retro if they don't use PSX.

>>1518053
It's more like calling a bush a shrub, since Sony themselves used the acronym PSX before the PS1 was released.

>>1518085

I seem to remember a magazine that used the term psx just about everywhere.

Joe Mad did a buncha illustration covers for them and the cheesecakey bikini issues with game girls.

>>1518102
It's not just magazines, if any of you guys have 3rd party controllers or other accessories for the Playstation I'm willing to bet they say "for PSX" somewhere on them or the boxes they came on.

No one called it the psx

We called it the playstation and/or we called the slim model psone then the ps2 came out and we called it the ps1.

Anyone who calls it the psx is an idiot.

PSX was probably used to differentiate between IBM's PS line of computers, PS/1 and PS/2, that were still popular at the time. While the PS/2 wasn't so common by the time PS2 came out, PS/2 mice and keyboards were standard on all PCs, and were marketed as PS/2 compatible, so I was often confused as which P-S-2 people were talking about and I'm sure other people were too, so why the PS2 wasn't called PSX2, I don't know.

>>1518116

Maybe in another country. In the US it was THE abbreviation for it. PS1 sounded fucking stupid because there wasn't a PS2. PS wasn't long enough and was never used. Maybe you didn't use IRC or forums back then so you didn't see it but it was common as all fuck.

>>1518116
>No one called it the psx

>>1518116
>>1518126

Read
>>1517314
Thats exactly how the acronyms where used where I live.

>>1518126
everyone called it a playstation or PS. I never heard PSX. I guess it depends on where you're from. I'm from the US and never heard it called a PSX until 2006 when I started coming here.

I only saw 'PSX' in magazine articles.
Never once heard it in person.
I have myself only used PSX on the internet, and then rarely.

>>1518116
Every online forum I was on in the late 90s to today calls it the PSX.

>>1518053
>completely irrelevant
Yeah dude it just explains where the use of the name came from.

So basically you were either an active gamer who engaged in discussions and read magazines and knew that in fact a lot of people were calling it PSX or you were 6 years old and didn't care about all that stuff as long as you were able to play Croc.

>>1518121
>PSX2

I'm going to start using this to rile up autists

>>1518164
>>1518178
Nobody said it out loud, really. "PSX" and "PlayStation" have the same number of syllables. But if you read a gaming magazine or website in the late 90s, you saw "PSX" several times. I still don't say "pee ess ecks" out loud, but I'd be lying to you if I told you it wasn't a completely ubiquitous acronym in print.

>>1518191

Basically.

>>1518048
It's not "objectively incorrect", just archaic.

>>1518064
>We are better than /v/!" was true for maybe the first 2 or 3 months
nope, not even then.
It was a good board for about a month or two after the newness wore off (6-ish months after its creation), but since then its turned into a shitfest, and it will stay this way.
It will stay this way because its a video game board, and all things video game related end up a shitfest before too long.

>>1518221
In general /vr/ is older and more mature but every board has its poisonous topics.
Sonic 3 barrel.jpg

I'm 19, and when I we first got one (borrowed the PlayStation from my aunt, then got a PSOne for the holidays), we called it the PSX all the time. It's also the keyword we used when searching it on AskJeeves and Dogpile.

>>1517889

I say GameCube Nintendo out loud.

Why does this thread even matter? Seriously, whats so bad about someone calling it a PSX or a PS1? Does it cause you physical pain, if I shout "PSX" at you repeatedly will you die? It has no impact on you or your life if someone calls something by a different name, so why give a shit?
Do you say Nintendo Entertainment System?
What about Atari Video Computer System?

>>1518245
>Why does this thread even matter? Seriously, whats so bad about someone calling it a PSX or a PS1? Does it cause you physical pain, if I shout "PSX" at you repeatedly will you die? It has no impact on you or your life if someone calls something by a different name, so why give a shit?

Autism and shit, real talk. PS1, Playstation, PSX...when you see those words on this board, you know EXACTLY what the fuck people are talking about, so making a big deal out of it just makes you look like a retarded child.

Better yet, why do they call the Gamecube GCN? What the hell does the N stand for?

>>1518245
>>1518245
No one gives a slightest fuck about whether you use PSX or PS1 if you talking about the original Playstation this whole thing is about some shitposter always "educating" us about the DVD player prototype in OP's pic when someone uses the term PSX.

The problem here is that thing was only released in Japan, didn't sell at all and shouldn't be anyway relevant to the rest of the world apart from being good trolling material on internet forums. But being as bad as /v/ /vr/ took the bait and went full retard. I am disappoint /vr/.

>>1518258
Nintendo.

>>1518260

I don't think people even took this thread the wrong way. Some people said why people call it PSX and some say why they had never heard it and most reached an impasse. On /v/ this would be a 500+ post thread filled with buzzwords and obvious bait.

Why do people call it a Playstation instead of the Sony Gamebay?

Because in emulation circles, the abbreviation "PS" was already taken by PocketSwan

"PSX" was pretty universally used until the PSone came out. At least people understand exactly what you're talking about when you say "PSX" as opposed to "PS1" which some may interpret as the redesigned "PSone".

>>1518064
This basically. The slow declining quality of this board shoud've been already been apparent if the console war shitposting and stealth waifu(two commonplace thread types of /v/) threads are anything to go by. Then again this could be said about almost all the boards in the site, so it's just something we have to deal with sadly, but I digress. Back on topic, who gives a shit honestly?

>>1518278
Waifu threads have been here from the start and don't really harm anything.

Console war fuckery can fuck off, though.

>>1517538
Is there a scan of that issue? I really wanna see what's up with that Duke 3D screenshot.

>>1518281
>Waifu threads have been here from the start and don't really harm anything.

I see, sorry. Anyways, I gotta admit that they're pretty decent sometimes.

>>1518279
Did anybody ever brought from these guys?

>>1518278
>>1518064
You guys have been saying /v/ took over this board since the very first month of /vr/. This board has been the same quality as it was the first month, every board has the occasional shitpost but that doesn't mean it's suddenly gone down the shitter.

>>1518293
Yeah, I can't say that I saw a waifu thread here day 1 but I did see one in the first few months.

And yeah, they are decent for the most part. I rarely see any of those awful "you're waifu a shit" arguments here, at least not the ones that get derailed into bullshit.

They also don't seem to infest other threads, as far as I can see, unlike console/franchise wars which some dipshits will try to shoehorn everywhere.

I go on /v/ like... once a year at most since I started coming to 4chan in 06-07. It has always been terrible and it moves too fast to encourage anything but the most baited topics and overreaction. I would count /vr/ as one of my most frequented boards because it has a slower pace that works better for thoughtful conversations about the medium. Also forcing people to post about consoles from an age that a lot of younger kids weeds out a lot of the /b/ level shit posters. There are obviously bad apples on here that come for an hour to troll every thread and get some heated replies, but for the most part I think everyone who posts here are pretty alright people and rarely stoop to level of faggotry................ outside of Final Fantasy, DKC, and Sony v. Nintendo threads. Do me a favor and hide all of them on sight.

>>1518270
so instead on /vr/ its a 200+ post thread filled with buzzwords and obvious bait.

>>1518309
>Sony v. Nintendo

I think here it's more Sega vs Nintendo. But I agree, console wars are the most stupid thing on every video game board. Worst thing? Lots of those people are actually serious about that stuff.

>>1518275
is there a non-pocket swan?

>>1518278
>console war shitposting and stealth waifu(two commonplace thread types of /v/)
console war is commonplace with anything video game related regardless of the topic.
and waifu threads are commonplace anywhere on 4chan, even /k/ has them (and we have them a lot).

Why don't we call the PlayStation by its real name: Shit.

>>1517261
We like to call it the PSX so that when some kid inevitably discovers the other PSX they come here and make an ass out of themselves.

>>1518258
gamecuban

>>1518331
Nintendo fanboy pls go.

Also is this PSX thing a US-only issue? I honestly have never heard anyone call it that in my humble little tiny country in Yurop.

The Xbox 1 had a few really good games.

A couple last hurrahs from Sega before they went completely to shit. Panzer dragoon orta.

And the ninja gaidens, splinter cell, et

So what do we call the original Xbox now? XboxX seems quite retarded to be honest.

>>1518401
Xbox is a special case of MSoft faggotry of the highest caliber. While the "Xbox 360" is a retarded name for a console, its at least distinct from the original. Calling the 3rd console "one" is mind baffling. "original xbox" I guess. Oxbox.

>>1518394

Germ here. We also called it PSX

I call the Xbox One the "Crossbone" (X-Bone)

>>1518394

Italy here, the magazines called it PSX but we just called it "the play" because no one in Italy spoke english so using an english word other kids/boys already understood what you were referring to.

>>1518425
>"the play"

I don't exactly know why, but this makes me slightly upset.

>>1518405
Yeah, Sony was smart enough to not go the retarded path with the names. Now MS will have to come up with a new name for each console, unless they go full retard and call the next one Xbox Two.

>>1518394
It's several countries in NA/SA and EU. The issue is youngbies telling other people NOT to call it PSX and insulting people merely because they read about something on the internet.

>>1518429
>Hey Mario, wanta play some-a the play with your friend?

>>1518398
>a few really good games.
nigga that shit had A LOT of good games
someone else already said sega treated it like a 2nd dreamcast (which it basically was)
dont forget tenchu, chrimson skies, DoA, doom3, fable, all dem SNK games, shenmue II, blinx, etc...

and best of all (for /vr/ anyways), its great for emulation.
>dat metal slug 3 with a bro

unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, probably that) xbox isn't /vr/. so I'll kindly shut up about this now.

>>1518429

If it can make you feel better it was actually "la play".

>>1517618

>Regular Nintendo
>Super
>The 64

Mah nigga. Though what did you call the Genesis after the Saturn came out?

>>1518282
>>1517538

I want to know what's up with that Duke 3D screenshot too...

>>1518442
ARE YOU FROM ITALY/SWITZERLAND?!
I only know Italians/Italian-or-French-speaking-Swiss who call it "la play."
I don't know if the Francophonic/Hispanophonic/Lusophonic worlds also call it 'la play,' but Italy, Italian Switzerland and the Roumands all call it 'la play.' Possibly the filthy Rumansch, too.

>>1518586

He straight out said he's from Italy.

>>1518586
In spanish, all the playstations have been "la play" since then. Nobody says "playstation", actually...

>>1518606
I was following the thread. Just saw 'la play' as I was scrolling and it made me nostalgic.

>>1518628
Errr... "wasN'T following," rather.

Even GameStop called it psx at the time faggots

>>1518394
NOPE, everyone used the acronym PSX about the Playstation here in Finland, my humble little tiny country in Yurop.

Also I have a theory that most people using the term PS1 are the ones that had Nintendo 64 at the time and ended up buying PSOne to get to play FFVII and other Playstation exclusives they missed on.

>>1517538
wanna see MY dedicated thick section?

>>1517261
Every singles plastion magazine in Europe between 1994-2001 call PSX: PSX

face it, tiger

I have no idea how the initials "PSX" got started, but I DO remember it being called that long before there was even a PS2 on the horizon.

>>1518394
Spain here: we called PSX, same as Italy>>1518425

Because "PSX" was the abbreviation for PS1 in magazines and press releases long before the "PSX" (which nobody except like 4 Japanese people bought) existed.

>mfw underagefags call Nintendo Dolphin "gamecube"
If you had been alive in the 2000's you'd know that's what Nintendo and everybody called it.

>>1518586
Portugal here. Everyone I knew called it Playstation or simply PS. "Hey let's play some playstation."
Later on when the PS2 arrived we started calling the PS2 'Playstation/PS' as well, and we'd only clarify when one of us didn't know which one was being referred to.
Nobody ever called it PSX. I only learned people called it that after I got internet.

>>1519906
>underagefags call it Nintendo 64
>not Nintendo Ultra 64

>>1517314
Every gaming magazine labeled PS1 titles as PSX as well, and they referred to the system as the PSX instead of the PS1.

Did no one else have this?

>>1519924

i never recall seeing this before the internet, i had a ps1, but was a bit young

i called it playstation, the game cases say playstation, anything i remember said playstation, i do think i recall just PS too

Its based on the PlayStation code name. Its the same as if someone called the GameCube "dolphin"
People always say ALL the mags called it psx in the day, but I only recall one doing that. The rest said PS.
But this is the Internet's, so you're wrong.

>>1519986
Might be a geographic thing

>>1518394
UK here, saw PSX used in magazines and other printed stuff. When the PS2 came out, using PSX meant that your searches would get the right thing wheras just searching for playstation got loads of PS2 results.

>>1517372
I say Pegasus because nobody here even knows it was a famiclone.

>>1517385
>>1517618
>>1517651
Am I really the only one actually saying the whole "nintendo 64" when reffering to it?

I like the design of the PSX and/or PSOne a lot better than the design of the PS2, or, fucking save us, the PS3 or PS4.

Just saying.

>>1520781

PS2 remains one of my favorite consoles ever, and I still play it all the time. I'm just talking about aesthetics.

>>1518401
OG xbox

>>1518583
How is Mr.Bones?

>>1521798

I really enjoyed it, it has a lot of clever and unique gameplay ideas, but not every single one is a gem.

>>1517261
I've always simply called it "Playstation" abbreviating is for unintellectual people which clearly is most of this thread.

>>1521805
i tip my fedora to you

>>1521814
I wouldn't wear a fedora, try again faggot.

>Playstation Experimental
Huh...I thought PSX meant Playstation X-treme. Never looked into the codename for it.

>>1517353
fuck off back to reddit

>>1521823
really? You sound pretty euphoric to me.

>>1521831
Reddit was sooo 2013 anon. The new scapegoats are tumblr, /v/, and /pol/. Get with the times gramps.

>>1521837
You sound like you suck cocks to me.

>>1521843
I do and your cock is gonna be the next one I suck if you don't shut the fuck up.

>>1521846
Wait a minute? Do you even realize what you just typed out?

>>1521839
newfig

>>1521934
Bitch please I've been here since February 2014.

>>1517325
Xbox Hueg

>>1517402
It was popular, if only because of the dudebros that played Halo and Madden on it.

It's a shame, because it actually had great exclusives (Panzer Dragoon Orta, Otogi 1 & 2, GunValkyrie, Phantom Dust, JSRF, Voodoo Vince, Breakdown, etc), but no one played them.

>>1517261
For the same reason newfags whine about shit they already know.

Because they're fucking idiots.

>>1522901
Also pic related. Possibly the most hilarious great gen 6 game

>>1523143
Oh yes, how could I forget to list that?

And Ninja Gaiden, of course.

>>1523143
This seriously needs to be ported and put on the digital marketplaces.