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Why do people call the ps1 the psx? Afaik there is no ps10 yet

>> No.4424056

>>4424048
Memes.
Literally its grids everyone gears,I do it all the time.

>> No.4424061

>>4424048
Why do people have retarded questions like this? Afaik there has never been a Playstation that used Roman numerals.

>> No.4424069

>>4424048
Because people may have been actually alive when the system came out and they may have been exposed to such quirks of not necessarily logical pop culture social difussion.

I'm sure you can start a GoFundMe to completely eradicate this source of continuous stress for you through some airborne agent maybe

>> No.4424078

Only people too young to have been alive (or meaningfully cognizant) during the console's lifespan get triggered by "PSX."

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4424081

Troll successful.

>> No.4424228

>>4424048
It was originally called the "PlayStation X" in early media promotions. The "X" was dropped from the name before release, but for some reason gaming magazines and websites still used the PSX abbreviation. Probably because people had got used to it.

I wish they would just call it PS1. There's a version of the PS2 that was released in Japan with some DVR capabilities, which was actually called PSX.

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>>4424056
I used it when the Playstation was current, but the only reason I use it online is because it's easier to type, and it rustles autists who can't into slang.
Same reason I use the slang term clip for a magazine.

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>> No.4424330

You need a very high IQ to understand the usage of the term.

>> No.4424356

>>4424323
nice shopping

>> No.4424361

They didn't call it the PS1 when it was still new and it was never branded as the Playstation 1.

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4424416

This is your fucking mess, burgerlings. Deal with it

>> No.4424436

>>4424296
A clip is literally a different thing though.

>> No.4424439

>>4424436
>falling for the bait

>> No.4424454

>>4424436
>t. autist who can't into slang

>> No.4424460

>>4424056
no, not memes. there was a magazine "PSX" and also it was called the PSX during and prior to its release.

>> No.4424464

>>4424416
thanks for posting this. this is a sounding board for "whos young" and it revealed a lot of new /vr/ in this thread which is a horrible bunch.

>> No.4424467

>>4424439
>>4424454
>bait
>austist
you are the cancer to /vr/ remove yourself.

>> No.4424470

>>4424467
Who are you quoting?

>> No.4424471

>>4424460
>no, not memes
Speak for yourself.
I am from eastern EU and here it was called PlayStation from day one.
As far as Im concerned you idiots could kill each other over whats right and I will just add fuel to the fire.

>> No.4424791

I use PSX to differentiate for my gamer friends when we talk about vidya... specifically concerning games that have seen multiple releases on different formats or when I'm specifying WHICH PlayStation I'm speaking of.

"I have the PSX version of FF tactics"
"Bring your memory card" "Which one?" "Your PSX one".

Not entirely sure WHY I started to call it that. Though I was in my early teens with a subscription to EGM at the time of its release so that may play a part in it.

>> No.4424796
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4424796

During development the original Playstation was known as Playstation X (X standing for either eXperimental or eXpansion depending on your source) but for some reason Sony dropped the X before the system was released. However gaming journalists at the time (gaming magazines in particular) kept using the acronym PSX and most gamers also kept using it on internets all the way up to the time Playstation 2 and PSOne, the new resigned version of the original Playstation came out. At this point the acronyms and their meaning were crystal clear to everyone: PSX meant the original grey version of the original Playstation and the new smaller redesign of it was referred as PS1.

Yes, there was another box called PSX in Japan. No one bought it and it wasn't and still isn't anyway relevant to the rest of the world except for underage shitposters on internet forums.

To this day I still wonder where the fuck the Internet got the idea that everyone has always called the original Playstation PS1 before Playstation 2 even came out?

http://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/28/history-of-the-playstation
http://web.archive.org/web/19980121115052/http://www.gamepro.com/whatsnew.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19981206015609/http://www.gameinformer.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990508132652/http://psxextreme.com/
Also, see Google Groups; do a web search of 'site:thegia.psy-q.ch/ psx'; and read back issues of magazines like those whose archived sites are linked above.

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4424804

>>4424048
Why do people call this thing Nintendo 64? After-all there never was a Nintendo 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 or 63? Seriously where are Nintendos 2 to 63?

>> No.4424819

>>4424804
I remember seeing a famiclone called Nintendo 5 once

>> No.4424901
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4424901

In Japan it's logically called the PS, because apparently they don't sperg out over making every fucking thing a three-letter acronym (TLA).

>> No.4424910

>>4424048

Because everyone called it like that back in the days. My friends, press, even fucking shops.

>> No.4424917

>>4424910
bull fucking shit.
Stop larping and fuck off

>> No.4424926

>>4424901
>superior japanese initialisms
Fuck off weeb

>> No.4424938

I just call it the Playstation, like a normal human being.

>> No.4424950

>>4424901
Actually makes sense. Before PS2, everyone called it just "Playstation", not "Playstation one"

>> No.4424957
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>>4424228
>wish they would just call it PS1
at release, nobody called the first xbox by xbox1 or x180, ofc it doesnt hep that xbox3 is called "xbox one", and xbox2 is xbox 3xx

just like nobody called ATA hard drives by PATA,
nobody called DDR by DDR1,
nobody called tombraider 1996 by tombraider1,
and nobody called the first reich by first reich at the time,
trust me i was there.

>> No.4424961

>>4424796
WTF
ps1 is not equivalent for psone
ps1 is for any ps-architechture-1

>> No.4425028
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>>4424471

>I am from eastern EU and here it was called PlayStation from day one.


No, that's not even remotely true. Here you go - pic related - a magazine from Eastern EU dated 2001(so like 6 years AFTER playstation release date). Trust me, Czechs and Slovaks also used PSX to describe the sony console.

>> No.4425034

>>4424917

>implying

Look here faggot:

>>4425028

>>4424804
Because it has 64 games.

>> No.4425242

Wtf

>> No.4425283

>>4424957
I wasn't implying people should have used "PS1" when the console was new, but in modern context it makes more sense than "PSX".

Just like how it was just called Xbox, and then when the 360 came out a lot of people called it Xbox 1, and now that the Xbone is around people call it "original Xbox".

Actually, now that I think about it, I've never heard anyone call it "PSX" out loud before. Most people call it PlayStation or PS1 when actually speaking. I only ever see people type PSX for whatever reason.

>> No.4425329

>>4424069
I was a live and even older when the system came out and I never ever heard anybody refer to it as PSX or, much less, Playstation X. Perhaps gaming magazines called it that at one time early on, but it was mostly just Playstation once the system came out (in fact, I don't remember PSX ever being mentioned by EGM or Game Informer, etc after the system came out, but it could just be my bad memory). Maybe it's a Europe vs USA thing or different regions of the USA called it PSX while it didn't catch on in others?

>> No.4425334

>>4425329
alive*

>> No.4425397
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4425397

>it's THIS thread again

>> No.4425459

>>4425397
Always pops up when you least expect it.

>> No.4425471

ive only ever heard it called playstation

cant remember when i first saw psx online/in print. cant say it bothered me tho

>> No.4425903

>>4424048
I always called it the PSX...then the PSOne came out and you had to call the grey box a PSX to distinguish the two and that's what I have so that's what I call it...but if I'm just talking about games it can either be PSX or PS1, though mostly I just use PSX because I can just hold shift and hit 3 letters instead of having to let off shift to hit the 1.