/vr/ - Retro Games

one is a psx and the other is a ps2

>>6488189
Purest form of autism

>>6488189
no

>>6488189
that is an xbox retard

>>6488189

>>6488189

>>6488232
>>6488229
>>6488225
>>6488210
>>6488207
>>6488202
>noooooooo let me wallow in my ignorance and proceed to call it incorrectly
Straight out of idiocracy.

>>6488189
One is a PSX and one is a PSX

>>6488237
that is an xbox retard

No one cares retard. Fuck you.

>>6488189
top: actual PSX
bottom: failed PSX nobody cares about

>>6488262
I do, hence your argument is invalid.
>>6488263
Top: Sony PlayStation, also known as PS or PS1.
Bottom: PSX
Please stop confusing the two. Thanks!

>>6488274
>PS1
No, here is an actual PS One. Please stop confusing the two. Thanks!

Based OP, thank you for the clarification.

FUCK YOU
Saying "PS" or "PS1" just simply isn't as cool as typing PSX. The X adds and extra mysterious flavor to it and is aesthetically cool. Get lost.

>this stupidity again
>when /vr/ already put together an infographic explaining shit to zoomzoom retards
>pic related

>>6488320
it's always shitposting, infographic doesn't matter

>>6488297
lmao this post can't be real

>>6488320
based

>>6488320
The only meaningful one in this collage is the japanese Konami website.
Still, the system was never really branded as PSX, it's just a codename/bios thing. Nobody is still calling the Dreamcast "Katana" or N64 the NU64.

>>6488189
>Please stop
Who are you that you can order me around like a dog? Watch out how you talk to strangers on the internet! Mind your own biz, you focking schizo and kys.

>>6488332
If you aren't a dog then why are you barking instead of amending your mistakes?

>>6488330
Yes, but you only need to call it the PS1 in regards to the rest of the series. Since this is /vr/ and the other consoles in the series aren't allowed, we can use PSX without anyone being confused as to what is being talked about. Many of us have never stopped calling it the PSX. The PSX was branded as the PlayStation. The only people obsessed with it being the "Playstation One" is /v/, and they don't count here.

>>6488189

zoom zoom, repeating memes because my young zoonie brain needs something to rally against!
thread died? thats okay sonic 3 barrel time! dead too? super metroid glass tube what were they thinkiiing time!

Oh boy do i like my PSX or playstation X it just sounds so badass. Another favorite console of mine is the GCN otherwise known as the Gamecube Nintendo. You see this differentiates it from the super nintendo and the 64 nintendo and isnt just a its bios format name that some people are too retarded to realize isnt the name of the console. Inb4 not retro

>>6488348
>The PSX was branded as the PlayStation
I mean, "PSX" was nowhere to be seen on the original console's packaging, not even the very first fat models.
"PSX" only remained in magazines... in the same way many magazines kept calling the N64 "Ultra" for years, but eventually people realized Ultra was just the proto/codename and not the official name, and stopped using it. It's a bit weird that so many people keep using PSX, especially when you can just type PS, which is the actual official abbreviation.

how were we boomers supposed to know that the follow-up to sony's playstation would be called the playstation 2

i mean it was a bit presumptuous to put a 1 in front of a console that might have been the only one with its name

>>6488364
It became PS1 after the launch of PS2.

In Europe from 1995 to 2007 was either PSX or la play (la pley also apply)

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>>6488382
hello fellow frog

You know, it's genuinely starting to worry me that this is something that bothers the younger generations so much. When I was a kid and the playstation was new, we all called it the "psx". It was quicker than saying/writing p-l-a-y- s-t-a-t-i-o-n. It was just an abbreviation, like "xmas" instead of "Christmas" or "XOXO" in place of your name.
Why do europeans struggle with this concept?

PSX is a stupid acronym, the letter X comes from nowhere. PS1 or just PS is simply better because the number 1 actually makes sense. Imagine calling the first Sonic or Crash game Sonic X or Crash X

>>6488391
>muh yuropeans
We've always called it the PSX, you obsessed americunt.

>>6488385
lmao I can only imagine a room full of game journalists trying to figure out how to use two analog sticks at the same time

bet I've just mandella'd everybody

>>6488320
based

>>6488505

>>6488397
This. No one I knew called it "Playstation" and "PS1" didn't catch on until the PS2/PSOne came out. It was always PSX.

>>6488320
Thanks for posting this. Saving for whenever this is brought up again.

>>6488391
>It was quicker than saying/writing p-l-a-y- s-t-a-t-i-o-n
Isn't it quicker to type/say PS?

>>6488515
PS already has another meaning though

>>6488509
>Polygon Man

>>6488517
What meaning?

>Play Staton 10

>>6488515
gotta get home and play with muh PISS

>>6488395
>PSX is a stupid acronym, the letter X comes from nowhere.
Because X sounds cool. What does the X mean in Xbox? Same marketing logic.

>Sony's North American division, known as Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA),[28] originally planned to market the new console under the alternative branding "PSX" following the negative feedback regarding "PlayStation" in focus group studies. Early advertising prior to the console's launch in North America referenced PSX, but the term was scrapped before launch.[29][30]

Almost all gaming magazines of the time used it as an acronym until it officially came out. See >>6488320

>>6488523
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postscript

Like when you're writing something and put
P.S. at the bottom for an extra message.

PS check the image.

>>6488527
Still shorter than PISS ECKS

>>6488530
That's like saying we can't use SS for abbreviating Sega Saturn because it already means Schutzstaffel

>>6488530
The award for the most retarded post ITT goes to you anon.

>>6488543
>>6488547
PS is a commonly used abbreviation in everyday life, or at least it was back then.

>>6488530

>>6488559
Prove me wrong.

>>6488558
>Hey dude whatcha playing
>I'm playing Sony PS my man
>Wtf what is sony postscript

>>6488562
>My man what?
>what are you playing on your Sony?

>>6488530
Holy shit, you really made me remember that P.S. was really used even in the 00'.
And in 90' it were even more used.

>>6488571
Yeah. I still see it occasionally in emails, but it's not nearly as common.

>>6488528
the x in xbox stands for direct x

>>6488579
Yes, emails.
Before it was everywhere: magazines, articles, guides, books, forums and other casual internet posting.
Right now "also" or something is more used if there is a need to add something to sentence.

>>6488528
>What does the X mean in Xbox? Same marketing logic.
Yeah but the X in Xbox, which comes from DirectX by the way, is the name of the console. PSX isn't the name of the console, it's an abbreviation where an extra letter is not present in the final name.
Who cares if it's a planned name, it's weird to call the PlayStation the PSX when PS would have been fine and doesn't really stand for much. I don't care that magazines and shit used it, it's a dumb name in any case

>>6488528
This is info that could probably stand to be added to the infographic as a section refuting "PSX was only ever a development code name"

>>6488521

Oh look, this thread for the 5th time this week....

>>6488395
It comes from PlayStation eXperimental.

>>6488685
source: your ass

people actually care about this shit?

>>6488650
oh i didn't know that thing had a name

>>6488320
Based and OP btfo.
>>6488395
>PSX is a stupid acronym, the letter X comes from nowhere.
Your zoom is showing. PS-X was the codename.

>>6488737
>>6488685
That's not the final name, no one calls the N64 the Ultra 64, or the Virtual Boy VR32

>>6488320
>posting the same strawman infographic exclusively featuring unofficial sources except for a single spic source from late in the gen
Very big brain.

>>6488320
Also PSX was mentioned numerous times in the source code that was found on the Jimmy Johnson's Football game disc:

>>/vr/thread/S6423345#p6431998

>>6488189
>also known as PS or PS1
For me it'll always be "PST" or "PST1".

>>6488207
No actually you are the autist.

make the wolfendoom thread next that one triggers some real autismos

>>6488189
I just wanted to tell you that you're a stupid fag and that nobody likes you. Thanks.

>>6488757
>being in denial in the face of mountains of evidence

The recurring claim from some idiots is that "no one called it PSX in the 90s" and they're just plainly very, very wrong.

>>6488774
Again, that's not the claim. Who denies that it was referred to as the PSX in the 90s? The claim is that "PSX" has never been an official term for the system. Everyone called the N64 the "64" in the 90s, but no one claims that was the official term for it.

>>6488740
Yet people called the PlayStation PSX everywhere. You making a big deal, a thread and sperging about this is pure level 1 ASD.

>>6488232

>>6488791
See >>6488781

>>6488812
PSX was a code name.
It was not the official name.
Everyone adopted PSX anyway.
People tend to call it PS1 more often now.
Why are you so mad about it?

>>6488825
>People tend to call it PS1 more often now.
And for a good reason!

>>6488834
PSX and PS1 are both abreviations of the official name, one used in the system's time, the other when the successors came out. Even Sony uses PsOne in their classics line, not PS1. PS1 is not anymore official than PSX, the official name is PlayStation (and to an extent, PsOne).
By that logic we can't use GBA, GBC, C64, SMS, SNES or Atari VCS because those weren't the official names.
Your gripe with this is textbook asperger's syndrome.

>>6488825
I only know it as PS, because that is the common initialism for it here.

>>6488825
I'm not OP. I'm not mad that people call it PSX, feel free. The strawmen and miscommunications are the annoying parts.

>>6488685
Wouldn't that be PSE, then? Why randomly capslocking the X?

>>6488853
>or Atari VCS
That was the official name of the system until 5200 came out, though. Same goes for everything else you listed except possibly for SMS which arguably might have just been "MS".

>>6488880
X is cooler than E, qf "Xtreme" instead of always "Extreme"