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>>6123258
Who cares? The systems are good, cheap, and have cheap games. Go buy one and play it and stop worrying about the name.

>>6123258
PS1 only if you're referring to the smaller white model.

>>6123269
That's PSOne
The regular original playstation is abbreviated "PS" officially.
"PSX" was sometimes used unofficially by game magazines and such back then, because of the codename of the system was PSX (or P.S.X or PS-X, etc)

>>6123273
>sometimes

Someone needs to post that image proving it was always called the PSX

It was called The Playstation.

i call it ps1 because it just makes sense. before later ps's came out i called it playstation. but when the ps2 came out named playstation 2 it just makes sense to call the first one ps1. simple as. psx sounds retarded btw

>>6123258
Both but PSX probably shouldn’t be used anymore due to Sony releasing a hybrid DVR/PS2 called PSX. For whatever reason they also call the PlayStation Experience, PSX.

>>6123278
Yeah, sometimes. As I said, in Japan it was almost always called PS on publications and such. "PS" is also the tag on Yahoo Auctions Japan to search for PS1 games today.
PSX is not entirely unofficial, because it was a codename, but the final name is PlayStation (same as how N64 used to be NU64, and some magazines kept calling it that, or Ultra 64, for years to come).
Myself, I call it PS0.

>>6123298
So basically the X was finally revealed to mean Experience. What crappy hippie new age shit.
I always hoped it meant XTREME.

>>6123258
Both,either and neither.

>>6123304
No, it was X for eXperiment.

>>6123278

It's been how many years and you fags are still replying to this?

>>6123258
Doesn’t matter, both ways people know what you are referring to.

It’s a regional thing. In the town I grew up in and the schools I went to it was called: “the PlayStation”. But then when PS2 came out people called it: “PS1”.

>>6123283
this

>>6123308
>PSE

>>6123301
>same as how N64 used to be NU64, and some magazines kept calling it that, or Ultra 64, for years to come
Model-codes of the N64-console and accessories start with "NUS-".

>>6123259
FPBP

>>6123312
I think this should just automatically pop up in your browser whenever anyone attempts to start one of these shitty abbreviation threads. It would let other less shitty threads survive.

>>6123258
Playstation or Play.After the PS2 released , PS1.

>.....BOOTSTRAP LOADER Type C Ver 2.1 03-JUL-1994.Copyright 1993,1994 (C) Sony Computer Entertainment Inc......SYSTEM.CNF;1....PSX.EXE;1.......
>PSX.EXE
0000E0C0 to 0000E140 in the BIOS for at least the SCPH55k and SCPH90k models

>>6123258
PRAYSTAYSJEN WAN

Seems like the OVA vs OAV in anime circles. People get so used to using one variation and it sticks and other people always know what they're talking about.

>>6123258
Zoomers wondering if the controller is some kind of prototype or something?

La Plei

>>6123258
PSX

>>6123258
Playstation

>>6123320
You're here forever dumbass.

>>6123258
That is the PSX. This is the PS1.

>>6123273
Only the official ps and some unofficially mags that lasted some issues called it psx not the good ones

Playstation? More like GAYstation, am I right?

>>6123258
PSX and you pronounce it ぺー・エス・イックス

>>6123304
it was X for crossover

>>6123258
The PS1 looks nicer. But the PSX actually allowed you to plug the Game Shark in the back of it.

>>6123301
>PSX is not entirely unofficial, because it was a codename, but the final name is PlayStation (same as how N64 used to be NU64, and some magazines kept calling it that, or Ultra 64, for years to come).


If faggots want to say PSX then they better say Ultra 64 too. or the Ultra 64's successors Dolphin and Revolution.

>>6123264
>and have cheap games.
Some of them, there are pricey PS1 games, no where near as bad as other consoles but still has a few of them

P1SS

>>6123258
ps1, what the heck is the x for??? I don’t see x written anywhere on the box or on the bottom of the system

>>6123312
Ive always said ps1, but does anyone know how the term psx came about? Im curious. PS2 wasnt a known thing until the late 90s so im surprised to see it being called PSX in a tekken 2 feature, i would have thought they would have just used PS. Maybe they felt they needed a 3 letter abbreviation to fit with stuff like NES, 3DO, CDI, N64, GEN, SAT etc? Just a thought, probably wrong.

Also, i know its not retro, ive always felt the same way about gamecube being abbreviated as GCN? Again, maybe having three letters looked more appealing for magazine editors, but why not NGC?

>>6126457
It's a weird kind of deal, same how Americans refer to the date as MM/DD/YYYY
The system was referred to in insider stuff as GameCube - Nintendo. On military forms it was labeled YEAR in the top corner for sorting, then lower down by month and day.

>>6126457
IIRC Nintendo told publications that GCN was their preferred abrieviation for some reason.

>>6123258
If you followed gaming before or during the mid-90s, PSX. If you only started following gaming after that, PSOne.

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

The development codename for the console was Playstation-X.

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

well, people understand both, so why bother?

anything older than the PS4 is just called an atari, anon

>>6123312
None of those seem to be official sources, with that Spanish-language magazine a possible exception.
>>6123259 >>6123301 is the final answer.

>>6123258
Why is this thread posted every other day? It's fact that it was sometimes referred to as PSX. This isnt debatable. Quit posting the same shit. Its probably one retarded autistic neckbeard posting this who has nothing better to do in between jerking it to his anime pillow.

>>6123258
Obv. Psx

>>6123258
You wouldn't have called it PS1 at the time since there was no PS2. Thats like saying you would call the NES, NES1. PS or PSX is right.

>>6123312
That playstation mag cover hit me with immediate nostalgia holy fuck.

Off to browse some old ones

omg who the hell cares.
you got nothing else to discuss?
>inb4 sega base system

>>6123273
The warez scene coined the name PSX.