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>>5099953
mom called it nintendo

first time I heard someone call it cross instead of X, I got angry

>>5099953

>>5099953
If youre gonna shitpost at least make it funny kys

It's nice to see we're finally past threads like this one at least

Fork.

plei uno

PSX is only written, AFAIK.

>>5100939
Correct. Just like nobody said “ess in ee ess” out loud.

>>5100949
In spoken parlance, it is either "PlayStation" or (since 2000) "Pee-Ess-One"

I remember seeing magazines in stores that used the term PSX, and wondering what the fuck they were talking about. what was wrong with just calling it PS? this is video games, not a fucking stock ticker.

>>5099953
I called it a Playstation. Now I call it Playstation 1.

>>5099953
I saw a video feature that explained the PSX debacle but I didn't think this site deserved to know because we would run out of shitposting material

>>5099954
based and redpilled

>>5099953
Out loud I only ever called it "play stay shun" or "pee ess wun"

>>5099953
Just "play station"

>>5100949
>Just like nobody said “ess in ee ess” out loud.
But that's wrong. People who say "in ee ess", which there are a lot of I find, are likely to say "ess in ee ess" or will say "super in ee ess".

>>5099954
>Any thread on /v/
>Worthwhile
Might as well replace it with another shitpost

>>5101052
Agreed, but this is /vr/

>>5101052
Disregard that, I suck cocks.also, a bit drunk

>>5101049
/thread

>>5099953
playstation. PSX was for text/online so you could pronounce it however you wanted.

>>5100949
>pronouncing N as "in"
the fuck are you doing lad

>>5101280
Americans talk funny. One day you'll stop being surprised by this.

>>5099954
fpbp

>>5099953
I don’t see an X anywhere on the system or box. So neither, just call it PlayStation

>>5101049
This.

>>5099953
PSX (eks). It is not a X (cross) symbol like on the controller. Those that don’t believe it was ever called PSX are either zoomers or dumb as fuck. Pull up old Google forum archives for proof. Back then people were calling the PS2 the PSX2 before it got announced.

>>5099953
all my friends in Hebrew school called it ps kikel as instructed by our Rabi

>>5101305
no american pronounces it like "in"

>>5100957
exactly
where does the x even come from
why was PSX ever a thing

>>5101163
plahystaytionecks
thats my head cannon

>>5100949
I pronounce it like a word, not an acronym, so snas

>>5101956
calling it "PS" it's too short as a keyword to search for roms, I remember downloading iso tagged psx before ps2 was a thing
also GCN is more retarded desu

>>5101972
It has nothing to do with roms, I remember PSX being pushed by some magazines during the 90's.

>>5102001
>>5101956
"PS-X" was the code name for Sony's console that everyone knew was the same Play Station that had been announced as the SNES CD attachment years earlier but Sony was sort of testing the waters to see if Nintendo would challenge their rights to the name before they officially announced and might have possibly been forced to retract. Then further, 90s Westerners tested so much more favorably to the letter X than the word "play" that SCA actually tried to continue the association for as long as possible.

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>>5102001
It's called fucking PSX in print. Check my order form today from gamestop.com

>>5102253

psx

Is unironically using the term "PSX" a britbong/euro thing? Like how those people say "Sness" instead of Super Nintendo?

I've literally never heard anyone or seen anyone use the term PSX over here in the states. It was playstation and then PS1 once the PS2 was on the horizon. And then I remember seeing some sort of DVD-recorder PS2 hybrid called a PSX in the mid 2000s.

>>5102253
The button mapping issues could've all been avoided if they didn't go full-on special snowflake with the retarded symbols and just used letters like everyone else

>>5102295
get a load of this

>>5099953
I called it a PlayStation, you know like a normal persion.


It is still called a playstation but if people are retarded and you have ti clarify yourself its called a PS1

>>5100050
First time i heard someone call it a psx i was pissed. Its just playstation.

>>5102307
Still never seen anyone use this terminology outside the internet years later. Just like nobody called it an "NES" or 'SNES". They were Nintendo and Super Nintendo.

>>5102307
Doesn’t matter. It’s wrong, because it’s not called the PSX. It’s a PlayStation. If you called it PSX, you were wrong and a retard.

Or point to me on this box where you see the letter X

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>>5102605
>it’s not called the PSX
It is an unofficial designation. This is a common abbreviation for the system. You don't have to like that nearly everyone called it "PEE ESS EX" in casual conversation.

Let me ask you a personal question. Were you alive in 1996 to recall any of the time period? And yes, it is pertinent to your line of accusations.

>>5099953
No one said any of those until the "pee ess too" was released. We all said either "playstation" or "pee ess".

>>5102685
>No one said any of those until the "pee ess too" was released. We all said either "playstation" or "pee ess".
You may have missed this post:

>>5102307

me and all my friends have always said "cross". I've never heard anyone say "eks" in real life. whole thing is pronounced "pee-ess-cross"

>>5102684
The whole thing with PSX is that no one gave a shit about calling the PS1 like that until the internet happened and suddenly every smartass started feeling special and enlightened for reading the PSX DVR wikipedia page.
In /vr/ this is a little bit subdued but you can't write PSX anywhere without a neckbeard going "UH ACTUALLY" almost immediately.

>>5101051
Are you dumb enough to mispronounce the letter "N"?

>>5099953
What the fuck happened to just "PS1"? That's what everyone called it when I was growing up. Only ever seen "PSX" on the internet.

>>5102309
What's so normal about a persion

>>5100949
Nope, we called it "suop-urrr-nin-ten-dough"

Faggy kids these days, man. Go take some estrogen and simmer down.

As a kid I said PlayStaXion

>>5102717
>The whole thing with PSX is that no one gave a shit about calling the PS1 like that until the internet happened and suddenly every smartass started feeling special and enlightened for reading the PSX DVR wikipedia page.
Is that the same wikipedia page that reports that the internal designation was PSX, and that it was called that prior to the adoption of "PlayStation"?

The point I was going for was that I was alive and do remember the hype leading up to it. It was the Nintendo Play station. After the NES/Sony deal fell out, sony worked internally off and on on the project.

Pic related came from this link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120527153943/http://www.edge-online.com/features/making-playstation?page=5

>>5102728
>PS1
During and after the release of the "PsONE" it picked up that moniker. After the PlayStation 2 became known as PS2, it only solidified the idea of calling the first system PSone/Ps1.

It's just meme terminology. It's not the only one, the Gamecube is referred as GCN for some reason.

Damn youngins. It was regular Nintendo, super Nintendo, Sega Genesis ('murica), Atari 2600 and PlayStation with the 1 added after 2 came out

>>5102717
>PSX DVR wikipedia page.
Sorry, I misunderstood you in my previous post. I know how contentious of an issue this is with the younger audience, and I confused this statement with this web page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)#cite_note-28

Which also lists the internal and advertised name of the product as PSX.

Pic related.

I think the difference between people who call it PSX and the people who sperg out over it is that the younger audience who was not alive knows PS1 or simply as "PlayStation" because they could compare it to the followup models PlayStation 2 and The 3rd one. I was living on my own when this hype was happening. I remember the advertisements and it was going to be called "PSX" . It wasn't huge, but people in the know found out about it, and the simple term stuck.

>>5102771
>the Gamecube is referred as GCN for some reason.
Internal company code. Much like NUS for the N64, but it never stuck.

>>5102758
I made a better screenshot of the old article from here:
http://www.edge-online.com/features/making-playstation?page=5

From the way it looks, PSX was something that was intended for US markets. This may explain part of it.

So I would ask anyone who is offended by this designation:

>Are you from the USA?
>Were you alive when the PlayStation was being hyped?

I now think that PSX is the term used by us Xoomers that were in the middle of being awestruck by 32 bit CD quality games, something that was not really mainstream in the USA until Sony made that happen.

>>5102772
>Nintendo, super Nintendo
Any ess and Ess any ness.

>>5102771
I always assumed that was Nintendo's (pre-Wii) insistence on always having their name tied with the name of each console. Can't just be GC for Gamecube. Gotta have an N in there too. And couldn't do NGC because Neo Geo Pocket Color or something like that.

And even then calling it PSX is like referring to the gamecube as DOL/Dolphin.

>>5102857
No one said this. Did you also call PS2 a "Playstation 2 Computer Entertainment System" or "PS2CES" like what was in the papers?

>>5102865
>No one said this.
I called the SUPER NINTENDO "SNES" pronounced "Ess Any Ess" and the Nintendo as "Any Ess".

I called the "Playstation 2" simply "PS2".

>>5102605
It is also wrong to call it PS1 though because there is no PS1, only a PSone, which is not the same as the actual Playstation. Either write it out in full or choke on a bag of dicks if you have an aversion to using PSX.

>>5102749
Yep, NES was Nintendo, SNES was Super Nintendo.

>>5102872
It's pronounced PS2CES if you're going to insist on SNES

>>5102880
Only in the sense that there's no such thing as Mega Man 1, Terminator 1, Super Mario Bros 1, Resident Evil 1, MGS1, and so on. A 1 suffix is typically added once a game is turned into a series and further clarification is needed. People naturally started calling it PS1 after PS2 came out.

>>5102892
>It's pronounced PS2CES if you're going to insist on SNES
I understand your confusion.

Let me explain. When we were alive in the early 80s, we didn't have trolls on the internet to correct us to their version of reality. When we were watching the development of the "famicom" we were looking at a name change for the markets outside of Japan. The name "Nintendo Entertainment System" was the designation that we became familiar with. Hence the abbreviation "NES". The sequel Became the "SNES"

This brings me to answer your question.

The PSX was the internal name and was the intended name of the system for North American audiences. (This is well documented) It was called "PSX" in the USA, in print and across the globe in many places. SCEI did not care for this, and likened it to the Walkman. So, the update was called "PsONE", so when they finally came out with the next generation system, it only made sense to simply call it "Ps2".

It is not about comparison between unlike systems, but as an evolution of a series and the name system stuck. Everyone I know called them exactly what I said earlier. You don't have to like it, but I respect that you and your circle of friends did not. Roughly how old are you? I am in my mid 40s, and I do think that these systems being new things in my time is what created the name system myself and my peers called it.

>>5102892
>Only in the sense that there's no such thing as Mega Man 1, Terminator 1, Super Mario Bros 1, Resident Evil 1, MGS1, and so on
Go to fucking IMDB and check if there's a fucking 1 behind The Terminator, protip: There fucking isn't because that shit is fucking retarded as it is redundant. I've never seen anybody type SMB1 or MSG1 either, this is literally just a figment of your imagination. You are reaching far into your ass in order to defend your completely wrong and utterly retarded use of PS1 and dislike for the PSX moinker.

>A 1 suffix is typically added once a game is turned into a series and further clarification is needed.
By fucking retarded down syndrome nigger faggots.

>People naturally started calling it PS1 after PS2 came out.
That's not an argument, shitface. People also naturally called it the PSX. So that would make it just as valid and not incorrect at all anymore.

And to further add to the confusion I have an Xbox (2001). Do you know how fucking hard it is to search for part for it. You can't just google for Xbox 1 or Xbox. You have to specify Original Xbox. If you look for "Xbox controllers" on ebay as example, you will find quite a medley of controllers for 3 generations of game systems.

>>5102901
No one called it NES or SNES. We said Nintendo and Super Nintendo. Hell, you can't even use officialness of "SNES" because that term was never even used by Nintendo themselves, at best they said "Super NES" in their own circulations. And even then, if we're going by what the company themselves say rather than what people actually said, then you have to also be in favor of "Playstation 2 Computer Entertainment System" because that was what it was officially called.

>>5102905
>No one called it NES or SNES
I did, as did my circle of friends. Check mate.

>>5102902
Are you seriously this autistic? Have you never seen anyone refer to these titles with a 1 for additional clarification? No, I'm not saying the name officially changed to Mega Man 1, retard.

>>5102906
Well I called it the super kiddy entertainment toy for nintoddlers back in the 90s, so checkmate. Just as valid as your shit.

>>5102909
Yes, I have seen that and looked down upon those people with great disdain for they are simple minded fools. Does that answer your question?

>>5102912
Show me on the amibo where the mustachioed man diddled your donkey.

>>5102913
I'll take that as a "yes I am that autistic"

>>5102919
You are the one who is arguing that something that was just made up by people based on fucking nothing, is a more valid item to use than the old original abbreviation that was based on an actually fucking thing and stuck around after the thing got a new name. That's how fucking stupid you are.

I don't even have a problem with people pointing out that PSX is technically wrong and incorrect, because it is. What I do have a problem with is when shitfucks like you defend the use of PS1, which has no legitimacy whatsoever. You are arguing for something completely made up as the "correct" thing to use because you feel like it, I guess. That's the height of autism.

>>5102928
Terminator 1 is my favorite movie in the series.

>>5102938
Goof for you.

>>5102912
>Just as valid as your shit.
You are exactly right, and I do respect your right to call it what you would like.

>>5102887
and usually playstation was only "the play"
still I don't sperg when I see psx written somewhere and immediately associate it with the ps1
also being psx its development codename every zoomer reference is stupid af

>>5102956
>still I don't sperg when I see psx written somewhere and immediately associate it with the ps1
But there is no ps1, it doesn't exist. But yeah, I use PSX instead of Playstation when I'm typing because it's shorter.

No one ever called it SNES. Pic related.

>>5102956
>"the play"
You sound like the gay.

>>5102956
>let's play "the play"
>mom I'm too sick for school can I play "the play" now

>>5102605
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.video.sony-playstation/llIuz5fOuuc/YW5-OM41QQIJ

From 1995. The GameCube was also known as the GCN but that is nowhere on the box.

>>5102307
>>5102605
There was also a PSX game with PSX written on the back cover art, Ill try to find it
>I lived in a hole and never heard the term, that makes it not valid

>>5102605
>if you called the Nintendo 64 the N64, you were wrong and a retard

Everyone called it the PSX back in the day. If you dispute this you are just another delusional millennial retard WHO WASN'T THERE.
PERIOD.

>>5102697
You've gotta be joking, wtf

>>5103434
based evidenceposter

>>5101051
Wrong. We would say N.E.S. out loud but never S.N.E.S. or Sness either. Aloud we'd say Super Nintendo

Same for Playstation. Aloud wed say the whole thing

>>5099953
I was saying "boo-urns".

>>5102259
Yeah, because there was a shitty PS2-era DVR called the PSX.
The PS1 or PSOne was the official name for the actual stand-alone PlayStation.

>>5104457
PSX was in use for the original before that thing came out though

>>5099953
back in my day we calls em hows we sees em.

in this case "PlayStation"

See in those we read the box to know what it said.

GCN was perpetuated purely because of Mike Jones hit song "Still Tippin'" in which he says

"Smokin on that indo
Gamecube nintendo
5% tint so you can't see up in my window"

>>5102772
>twenty-six-hundred

>>5104885
>Two thousand six hundred

>>5102928
Considering that Playstation is now a brand you should use PS1 or PSX to signify original Playstation games or consoles. After all what would you call a Playstation in a room that also includes a Playstation 2, 3, and/or 4?

also PS1 is perfectly legitimate considering the redesign of the system is known as the Playstation One.

Also to weigh in on NES/SNES, in my locale it was en ee es or Nintendo for the original, Super Nintendo for the SNES. Now that Nintendo has more under its belt I just call it the original Nintendo.

>>5103886
Must be a regional thing. I live in New York, everyone has been saying ps-cross here since the 90s.

>>5104786
I miss early 2000s dirty south rap.

>>5102689
No one ever pronounced the "eks" during real life conversations.

central us here, called that shit the playstation. after the ps2 came out, we called it the ps1.

called the other one super nintendo. this was my first console, so i wouldn't know about earlier stuff. as time went on:

"en sixty four"
"gamecube"
"ps2"
"x box"
"ps3"
"three sixty"

>>5105513
>No one I know pronounced the "eks" during real life conversations.
Fixed it for you.

Myself and my circle of about a dozen friends all called it that. You don't have to like it, and you can pretend that "No one ever did X thing" based on your limited perception, but you continue to beat on a dead horse. Eventually you will tire of it. I enjoy the moving goal posts that first "no one called it PSX", and now it is "No one pronounced it X way". Try not to get the salty tears into your retro electronics. It can cause shorts or failures.

>>5105707
It must be making you mad to know not everyone had to lower their IQ to talk the way you do like sheeps.

>>5105562
This guys gets it.

>>5105456
I'd never thought I'd say that, but in this era of Soundcloud rap, I do miss it too.

>>5103821
>>5105707
>4 inches is long guys! Me and a dozen other friends all compared.
No one ever pronounced the "eks" during real life conversations.
If you're too autistic to handle mild hypebole: Pronouncing the "eks" during real life conversation was rare. If no one called you out they were just being polite.

>>5099953
It's pronounced Pisix.

>>5099953
Magazines back in the day called it psx, but not anyone irl that I knew.

>>5105405
>Considering that Playstation is now a brand you should use PS1 or PSX to signify original Playstation games or consoles.
No, because nobody would say just Playstation if they meant 2,3 or 4. So Playstation remains free to denote the original Playstation. No need to add a 1 whatsoever.

>After all what would you call a Playstation in a room that also includes a Playstation 2, 3, and/or 4?
THE Playstation. Simple, elegant, timeless and true.

>also PS1 is perfectly legitimate considering the redesign of the system is known as the Playstation One.
No, because the PSone is a smaller and rounder re-release of the Playstation. It's also called the PSone... NOT FUCKING PS1. Underaged fags brought that on themselves when they sperged about PSX and claimed PS1 as correct. Sorry, fags but there can be no peace until you accept PSX into your life and PS1 just has no legitimacy whatsoever when you want to be a stickler about details. I never pointed that out and cared about it before fags came after the use of PSX by us older gents though.

>Also to weigh in on NES/SNES, in my locale it was en ee es or Nintendo for the original, Super Nintendo for the SNES. Now that Nintendo has more under its belt I just call it the original Nintendo.
EN EE ES and ES EN EE ES was rare but some people said it occasionally, mostly I always just heard and said Nintendo and Super Nintendo. What I've only ever heard fags in youtube videos on the internet say is ness and snezz though. I had never encountered that kind of craziness in the wild.