>calling consoles 'systems' >calling handhelds 'systems' Why? They're consoles.

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Anonymous Wed Jun 24 09:58:43 2015 No.2492431 [Reply] [Original]

>calling consoles 'systems'
>calling handhelds 'systems'

Why? They're consoles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:01:50 2015 No.2492434 Getting bothered by semantics? Why? Their words.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:02:18 2015 No.2492435 File: 43 KB, 540x482, Console..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Did you miss /v/ by any chance?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:02:47 2015 No.2492437 File: 169 KB, 1000x745, tmp_24782-SAAB-Jag-Console-panel-pc-x1000359731100.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No. THIS is a console.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:09:56 2015 No.2492441 system ˈsJstəm noun plural noun: systems 1.a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole. Sounds like an appropriate term to me, what exactly is your complaint?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:21:42 2015 No.2492454 >>2492441 Then why don't you refer to your phone or PC as systems? Why only retro consoles?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:26:45 2015 No.2492462 >>2492454 I refer to my PC as a system, a lot of people do

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:30:33 2015 No.2492470 File: 91 KB, 720x480, 1434142812280-0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2492462 /thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:40:16 2015 No.2492481 >>2492431 >uses mario picture Nintendo Entertainment System

Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:42:03 2015 No.2492482
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>>2492431
Opinions that don't mean shit an aren't important. The thread.

This is now a Disgaea thread.
Post favorite games and discuss why this series is so great.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:44:07 2015 No.2492489 >>2492482 Never played it. What's the draw?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:45:41 2015 No.2492493 >>2492489 Best turn based strategy game of all time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 10:46:25 2015 No.2492494 >>2492493 Debatable. What's so great about it? Fighting system? Story?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 11:02:42 2015 No.2492512 >>2492454 Computers are one of the reasons to use the more generic systems instead of consoles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 11:36:47 2015 No.2492559 >>2492454 Because it's not common parlance.

Anonymous Wed Jun 24 11:40:15 2015 No.2492565
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>>2492481
It was named Nintendo Entertainment System because Nintendo was trying to distance itself from the 'games console' moniker, after the video game crash. It's still a console though

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 11:43:26 2015 No.2492571 >>2492489 Grind ad infinitum.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 11:47:17 2015 No.2492583 >>2492482 Not /vr/ and take your Kusoge out of here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 11:49:43 2015 No.2492595 >>2492565 >These people that made the name are wrong. Doesn't surprise me that you're a dumb stupid frog poster either

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 11:54:19 2015 No.2492607 >>2492431 System is better suited for discussing any system that runs machine code. I could port software (like games) to a toaster, which is a system (but not a console). The same goes for personal computers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 12:29:36 2015 No.2492690 >>2492565 So why was it called Family Computer in Japan when it's use as a computer is very limited with Family Basic and practically worthless without? Computer being a general purpose programmable device.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 18:12:10 2015 No.2493394 >>2492482 Love Dis but dat shit ain't retro

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 18:18:06 2015 No.2493405 >>2492431 Can't help but read that in Capt. Lou Albano's high-pitched Mario voice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 18:55:21 2015 No.2493473 Why was it called the Genesis? It wasn't even the first Sega system. In Japan it was called the Mega Drive but it didn't use floppies or hard disks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 19:10:43 2015 No.2493502 >>2492493 It's actually a little above average at best, Anon. Sorry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 19:17:32 2015 No.2493518 I like how Nintendo's manuals used to say "control deck".

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 19:28:09 2015 No.2493535 >>2493518 Huh, in Germany it was a "traurigkeit akkumulator".

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 19:34:38 2015 No.2493547 >levels >stages >boards >maps >1-up >extra life >free guy >controller >gamepad >joypad Any of these words trigger you too, OP?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 19:37:12 2015 No.2493554 >>2493547 >screens >racks >mans >remote >paddle

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 21:43:24 2015 No.2493824 Oh wow. OP is a faggot after all.

Anonymous Wed Jun 24 23:04:03 2015 No.2493967

>>2492565
>Fairchild Channel F SYSTEM
>Sega Master SYSTEM
>Atari Video Computer SYSTEM (VCS)
>Commodore 64 Games SYSTEM
>Sega Master SYSTEM
>Nintendo Entertainment SYSTEM
>Family Computer Disk System
>Konix MultiSYSTEM
>nah..they're Consoles

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/console
>an electronic SYSTEM that connects to a display and is used primarily to play video games

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 23:07:11 2015 No.2493973 >>2492565 >Nintendo was trying to distance itself from the 'games console' moniker Looks like you're the only one hanging on to that 'console' thing dude...even Nintendo doesn't have your back. :^)

Anonymous Wed Jun 24 23:11:35 2015 No.2493980

>>2492565
>>2493967
>merriam-webster.com
That definition is the Very Last definition in the "console" entry. If you go out and bbuy a paper dictionary tomorrow that definition won't even be in there. In 20 years when they finally get around to putting that into paper dictionaries people won't even give a good damn..just you..and the dictionary will still be proving you wrong..20 years from now.

Anonymous Wed Jun 24 23:14:04 2015 No.2493983

>>2492565
>>2493980
Google "define console"...they don't even recognize it as a noun because every instance of a "console" is generally something else, like a 'mixing board' (or "console) in a recording studio. You can't even get Google to get your back!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 23:18:45 2015 No.2494000 >>2492431 Old timey slang. Also: >PlayStation 2 computer entertainment SYSTEM (It's official name) So eat it kid!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 23:55:46 2015 No.2494050 >>2492454 they're systems only when being used to play videogames; afterward they revert to being [specific name of device]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 23:56:30 2015 No.2494052 File: 55 KB, 448x576, dagobah.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2492431 >>2492565 >You will go to the Degobah Console... >...bennnn!

Anonymous Thu Jun 25 00:19:08 2015 No.2494082

>>2492431
The term "console" wasn't really used that much for gaming platforms back in the old days. It seems to had been popularized rather recently by the media (I'm guessing around sixth gen after the Xbox was launched, which referred to the main unit as a console).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 00:39:25 2015 No.2494107 >>2492431 >2015 >thinking word meaning is stagnant

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 05:04:59 2015 No.2494405 File: 110 KB, 720x960, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2493967 Ohhhhh shit nigga! Op btfo. p b t f o Yeah literally every system in the Sony plays action two system is calle a system. Fucking hell, summer came fast

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 05:24:22 2015 No.2494418 >>2494082 I kept hearing about consoles all through the 5th gen.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 09:00:13 2015 No.2494593 >>2493535 I am pretty sure that it was not.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 09:44:29 2015 No.2494632 Similar to how you you can't buy Android games from Apple's closed ecoSYSTEM Each SYSTEM's games are only compatible for the SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTED ELECTRONICS IN A BOX that is your CONSOLE... ...Just drop it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 09:48:27 2015 No.2494635 File: 18 KB, 250x250, 1422884518638.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >2015 >calling PSX "PS1"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 13:55:34 2015 No.2495012 OP you're a fucking champ this reminds me of /k/'s autismic rants about magazines vs clips but this one takes it to the next level and son i am proud

Anonymous Thu Jun 25 14:26:37 2015 No.2495081

>>2492431
Well, your post is to blame really. Mario got really popular on the NES, the Nintendo Entertainment System. System evolved as a term for game consoles because Nintendo was a major market player and they were calling their stuff System for 10 years. It's just remnant of those days.

I also like it as an umbrella term to refer to anything that isn't a PC.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 14:28:09 2015 No.2495082 >>2492434 >Their words Masterful

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 14:29:24 2015 No.2495085 >>2495081 How is a PC not a system?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 14:43:41 2015 No.2495106 File: 406 KB, 1600x1200, psx-desr-5000.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2494635 You're indeed right. It's wrong to call the PSX a "PS1" since it can play PS2 games too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 14:48:07 2015 No.2495112 it's both you faggots

Anonymous Thu Jun 25 15:17:10 2015 No.2495174

I have never understood the whole "calling PS games PSX". I'm pretty sure they were called PS games like any sane individual would back at the start of the life of the PS and then for some bullcrap reason Sony PR guys decided PS games would now be abbreviated as PSX games. It doesn't make any sense and imo sounds terrible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 15:24:57 2015 No.2495180 >>2495174 If you were alive and playing vidya during the 90s, you would have known that magazines started the PSX thing and Usenet and the Web followed suit. These days it's silly, but we didn't know back then.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 15:27:50 2015 No.2495186 >>2495106 that looks like a fuckin printer

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 15:33:33 2015 No.2495201 >>2495186 It's a DVR.

Anonymous Thu Jun 25 15:35:32 2015 No.2495209

>>2495180
I was born in 1985 and totally into videogames all the time so don't ever say something like that when you don't have a fucking clue. Aside from that nothing you have said in any way is contradictory to the facts I said.

"but we didn't know back then"... wtf are you talking about.

Anonymous Thu Jun 25 15:40:17 2015 No.2495215

>>2495209
Not him, but is English not your first language?

By Sony, the PlayStation was always referred to as either the PlayStation, the PS, or the PSOne. Some gaming tabloid magazines called it the PSX for some reason and people picked it up.

Then Sony released the PSX DVR box and no one knew because searches on "PSX" turned up PlayStation search results.

The acronym "PSX" doesn't make sense unless you're referring to the PlayStation series of consoles as a whole, X being the variable replaced with a number.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 15:42:46 2015 No.2495223 >>2492431 >calling people who play video games 'gamers' Why? We're not gambling.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 15:43:06 2015 No.2495224 >>2495215 >X being the variable replaced with a number But X is 10 in Roman numerals. PSTen.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 15:43:24 2015 No.2495225 >>2495215 PS1 came up after the PS2 was announced, PSOne typically refers to the specific slim redesign launched around the same time. It's silly to use anything but PS1 nowadays.

Anonymous Thu Jun 25 15:43:48 2015 No.2495227
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>>2495106
>>2495174
>>2494635
Because the term was coined before there was such thing as an actual PSX. The name comes form the original project where Sony was building a CD add-on for the original SNES. But since Nintendo formed an alliance with Phillips who were in direct competition with Sony. They went a made the Playstation. I've heard it called the PSX project and the X project. But the name has stuck throughout the years.

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Anonymous Thu Jun 25 16:19:48 2015 No.2495298

>>2495215
> Not him, but is English not your first language?

English is my first language.

I resent your suggestion that there was anything I said in any way, even in the slightest, that would give you cause to ask that question. I think there's something wrong with you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 16:21:48 2015 No.2495305 >>2495298 One more question. ___________________________u mad?___________________________

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 16:44:08 2015 No.2495354 >>2492434 This thread has no potential for anything but pointless arguments and unchecked autism, no surprise it's getting so many replies.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 16:53:16 2015 No.2495383 >>2495174 >Sony PR guys decided PS games would now be abbreviated as PSX games The PR guys didn't just make up that name. https://tcrf.net/PlayStation_BIOS_%28SCPH-1001%29_%28US%29

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 18:11:10 2015 No.2495559 >>2492431 how autistic are you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 18:12:11 2015 No.2495565 File: 1.18 MB, 300x188, coach-hines.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2495223

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 18:19:54 2015 No.2495604 File: 7 KB, 206x305, 1427827252395.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2495223

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 18:22:26 2015 No.2495610 >>2495223 Those people are called gamblers, anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 18:28:07 2015 No.2495632 File: 811 B, 64x64, Gamer.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2495610 Not quite. Though to be fair, a lot have hacked this to the correct term.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 21:27:23 2015 No.2496118 >>2495223 i think the real problem with being a gamer is identifying your whole personality by this one unproductive thing you do

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 03:08:37 2015 No.2496759 >>2495227 PSX stood for PlayStation eXperiment.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 08:45:18 2015 No.2497097 >>2492431 calling faggots faggots calling autists autists Why? They're OP.

Anonymous Fri Jun 26 09:14:52 2015 No.2497136

>>2495227
Pretty much this. The Playstation was the name for the SNES CD ROM drive and when Nintendo broke it off after so much development had gone into it Sony turned it into a semi-secret project to develop it into a stand alone, code name PS-X. Yes, a lot of game systems had and continue to have code names during development but that X resounded at the time in the West with the 17 year old demographic Sony was laser focused on (that I just happened to be exactly) and the word "play" really didn't so SoA definitely used it in their communications with the gaming press and the Internet.

>>2495209
Yeah I'm sure you had your finger right on the pulse of the scene when you were in 5th grade.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 11:46:45 2015 No.2497351 >>2497097 you just confuzed me

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 12:15:21 2015 No.2497383 >>2492441 I don't know but my complaint is that OP is a total faggot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 12:27:42 2015 No.2497405 >>2495298 Yeah what a dick. Not even being sarcastic fuck that guy, I hate people who point out minor mistakess but this jizz stain has nothing there were no mistakes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 20:51:29 2015 No.2498198 >>2497405 You samefag or another fag who can't into English? Or is your mind also overclocking itself.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 10:29:32 2015 No.2501070 >>2495223 check mate atheists! >>2496118 youre hyperboling no one that says im an electrical engineer/nerd/ huband, is identified by that adjective

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