/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5153980
Fuck off. If you can’t bother looking up the history of the original PlayStation I am going to assume you just want to start some shit.

>>5153981
Aw look u so tuff

PSX is actually just used as a short form for "playstation eggs" since a major selling point of the original playstation was that it could not only play the newest games but also fry eggs.

do us a favor and just look on the archive for one of the hundred discussions we've already had

>>5153980
PlayStation eXperimental. It originally was gonna be connecting to the weird port on the bottom of the snes. Nintendo and Sony had a fight. Triangle wins. Triangle man.

>>5154003
Fuck. Now I'm gonna have that goddamn song stuck in my head all day. Thanks dude.

>>5153980
It's been explained many times...I do it because it pisses off those people who hate it and also because the X key is right next to the S key so it's much quicker to type PSX than it is PS1...you have to let go of shift, too if you're doing it in caps like it should be.

>>5154005
When he's underwater does he get wet, or does the water get him instead?

>>5153994

>>5154009
In the emulation scene it was always PSX. Being a part of that since the early 00's, PSX is just engrained into my mind. This is also the only place I've been to where people lose their shit over it, so there was never a second thought of using it for me.

>>5153994
So that's how Eggs of Steel came to be!

PS-X is in damn near every executable of all PS1 games
PS-X is also in its SDK
PSX was just easier to say because you didn't need to add the hyphen, and since every game has "PSX.EXE" as their game executable it seemed reasonable
That and due to the late 90's aestheric, anything with an X made it sound cooler
It's the "PS" or "PlayStation" and neither sounds as radical as "PSX"

>>5153980
i think sony might have forced the name back then
its sorta like when nintendo tried to make the 'gc' the 'gcn'
also this fun image

>Many claim Mednafen to be the best PSX emulator.
>Its accurate and plays fine sure, but its a pixelated mess.

I didn't buy a 4K monitor to look at a 320x224 image blown up into a blurry distorted mess. If I wanted to play with its original resolution I'd use the actual console.

To hell with those who don't offer the option for increased resolutions. Get with it guys!

When I was growing up, I always saw it abbreviated as PSX.

>>5153983
Fight me, retard.

>>5154054
LEGO made a similar statement
>please call us lego bricks not legos

>>5153980

>>5154054
Actually Nintendo is a proper noun.

Why was it called the GCN?

Hall monitor, don't squeal on me for mentioning a post-1999 console, you faggot.

>>5156976
To skirt copyright law

>>5154038
T.Hanks actual correct answer man.

>>5156967
this is the dumbest image i've ever seen lmao
the biggest playstation chat room on the internet back in 1997 was #psx

>>5154028
never seen another person mention this game on the internet before, good shit.

I've always used PS1 to refer to the platform and games on it, but I use PSX when I want to differentiate the original system from the smaller PSone.

>>5156976

>>5153980
You were born in 2005

Weren't?

>>5157152
I just listened to Juicy by Biggie today, too.

>>5154023
this
although in the 90s when people actually used it in normal meatspace conversation it was just "playstation" (pronounced: OP is a faggot)

>>5154080
>being autistic and starting fights online over videogames

>>5153980

Because that's how it was marketed back in 90ties.

>>5153980
Because it's the codename of the original playstation, like project reality for the n64 or dolphin for the gamecube.

>>5155282
> highlights psx mention
> yeah, lets just ignore the five times it mentions PLAYSTATION instead
> being this retarded
oh my fucking sides.

>>5156967
> cherry picking at its finest
when trying this hard fails so spectacularly.

>>5157530
>multiple examples providing proof of the exact opposite of what "it was never called the psx" retards claim is cherrypicking
right

>>5153980
For the same reason they call the Sega System the master system.

>>5153980
I always thought the reason it's called PSX is because it sounds fucking sick
"I was playing Metal Gear Solid on my PSX" hell yeah that shit's poetry

It's the official development name and is also referred to within the BIOS also it was the general consensus nickname/acronym since PS could mean photoshop also it rolls off the tongue easier like me and yo momma etc

>>5157717

>>5157275
Who are you quoting?

>>5157525
Are you debating it wasn't called PlayStation?

>>5154054
>You see, Nintendo is an adjective
How is it possible to be this ignorant, even in 1990?

>>5153980
People don't. Only homosapients are people. Homomillennialus aren't and refer to each other as peeps. Fun fact: They're fittingly named after an Easter candy that's made of marshmallow and nobody wants.

>>5154054
The style of that image almost looks like war propaganda.

>look guys, i've seen a wikipedia article! i'm not like the other zoomers! am i cool yet?

>>5157747
> being this illiterate
americans, everyone.

>>5153980
Magazines did, but not me or anyone I knew who had one.

>>5156967
Questioning why the PS1 is called PSX is a dead giveaway that the person is:
- A dipshit zoomer OR
- A literal autist "boomer" or wanna-be connoisseur zoomer OR
- A troll/baiting faggot

>>5158294
Wrong. The gaming god Jeff Gerstmann said so (that only idiots call it the psx), so it's the gospel truth. /vr/ btfo forever and ever. Don't bother replying to me, sweetie.

>>5153980
Because that's what people called it.

>inb4 REEEEEEEE- IT WAS NEVER CALLED THAT, EVEN THOUGH DEVELOPERS, MAGAZINES, AND REAL HUMAN BEINGS SAID IT. MY AUTISTIC BAD MEMORY WONT ALLOW THIS.

>>5153980
Because magazine publications. Everyone where I lived just called it the PlayStation.

The best comparison I can make is how today people often call the Xbox One the "XB1" in text. You don't walk around hearing many people talking about the "ecks bee wun" instead calling it the "Xbox One" like how very few walked around saying "pee ess ex" they just said "PlayStation". Both PSX and XB1 are shorthand lingo used in magazines, internally by developers, forum users, etc. Of course you hear people actually saying "PSX" (as well as "PS1" and "PlayStation 1" obviously) nowadays a lot more than in the 90s but that's because "PlayStation" is too generic of a term to use.

>>5158282
yes

>>5158315
Gerstman is a leftist basedboy and an actual garbage human being. Like a legitimate piece of trash. Taking his word for anything just shows how retarded you are.

>>5154067
Fucking retard

PLAYSTATION
SUCKS
XTREMELY

>>5159190
legit though, everyone I know calls it the X-Bone cause of the shorthand codes that label it as the XBONE.

>>5160359
Yeah the naming really backfired on Microsoft, even reporters were calling it that around the time the system was announced.

>>5157283
>>5157293
Thank you, I always wondered this myelf.

>>5160359
>phil spencer gone on record that the whole xbone-team never even considered "xbone" being an obvious acronym for it
LEL

>>5154067
>He fell for the 4K meme

>>5153980
X-treeeeeeme

>>5158085
>>5158278
I forgot the term for it, but they were trying to avoid losing the trademark by it becoming general. That's what LEGO did as well, and what Kleenex failed to do. That's why they're asking the general public to "use [their] trademark carefully", and to "never use it generically", since that could lead to them losing it.

>>5163948
>the general public
Where did that ad actually appear? I've never seen it before.
That looks like the kind of thing that would show up in publications aimed at journalists and other industry people more than the general public.