Thread 712957060

Why do Americans call the PS1 a "PSX"???

This is a PSX, which was a DVD recorder with an in-built PS2

>>712957060 (OP)
because it sounds like "pee sex" which is kinda funny

>>712957060 (OP)
>This is a PSX
Your image clearly shows it's an XSd you moron.

>>712957060 (OP)
I don't.

>>712957060 (OP)
>rest of the world were time travelers and knew ps2 was releasing so they called it a ps1

>>712957457
You're not American

>>712957060 (OP)
I wonder why there's this attempt to gaslight people into thinking it was the ps1 instead of psx.
I mean, there was a PS One but it wasn't widely popular.

>>712957060 (OP)
Why are you specifically asking about Americans? Americans get enough hate. Fuck off.

>>712958094
It wasn't ps1, it was ps.

>>712957060 (OP)
We don't. I have never heard anybody refer to a ps1 as psx

>>712957060 (OP)
>Why do Americans
why do Americans do lots of things. why did Americans do 9/11? you'd think that'd be a pretty stupid thing to do to your own country, your own countrymen. but no, America did it all the same. I think, when you consider this, the ps1/psx drama pales in comparison.

>>712958094
still not psx

>>712957353
good b8

>PlayStation
What we called it until the PlayStation 2 came out
>PlayStation 1/PS1
What we called it after the PS2 came out
>PSX
Some fag shit some nuthugging Sony fanboys came up with to sound like their dicks weren't small
>B-b-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu
Shut up

>>712957060 (OP)
Us Americans have never called it that.

>>712957060 (OP)
X is cooler than 1. FACT

>>712958623
B-b-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu

>>712957060 (OP)
same reason we call the NES, "the NES". we didnt. we called it Nintendo. and we called the ps1, "playstation" until the ps2 came out and then we would call it "ps1"

What is the X even supposed to stand for? WHY would anyone at the time not just abbreviated it to PS if they didn't want to say playstation?

>>712957060 (OP)
Because of the retarded nature of the gaming "journalists" who had to follow a retarded trend for fear that the retarded public wouldn't recognize Sony's highly successful video game console if they named PS or Playstation instead of PSX.

>>712960518
Xtreme™

>>712958623
>Some fag shit some nuthugging Sony fanboys came up with to sound like their dicks weren't small
it was the pre-release codename for the console.

see also: the nintendo revolution (later called the wii)

>PSX
Retarded, the X comes from nowhere, it being the old code name is irrelevant, nobody still calls the Switch "the NX"
>PS1
The same issue with the previous abbreviation, but with a 1. Successors to the Playstation do no retroactively change its name
>SPS
Sensible, uses letters from the actual console and its manufacturer, "Sony Playstation"

>>712962202
>Retarded, the X comes from nowhere
so what, nerd? gratuitous X out of nowhere was the vibe at the time.

>called it the psx with friends the day the ps2 came out
>6 years later snoy releases some forgotten piece of shit with the same name for marketing value
Oh gee I wonder.

PSX is some weird zoomer revisionist history. Everyone I knew (which is all that matters) called it the PS1. I even had PSM magazine and it was only called PS1 there as well.

>>712962475
>>712957387

>>712957387
but why?

>>712957387
Cherrypicking: The Image

>>712957060 (OP)
As an American I've never heard anyone refer to the Playstation as a PSX IRL. It's either "Playstation", "PS1" or "original Playstation". Maybe it was an adult thing.

>>712964658
Coping:the post

>>712964797
After there was a PS2, the use of psx ramped down considerably compared to PS1. Because before there was a two, there was zero reason to use a one when mentioning it.
That said, the abrvs one uses in text are typically different than voice, and this is a good example. Playstation has three syllables. PSX has three syllables. Hence no purpose to using the abreviation out-loud, ditto PS1.

>>712964906
Here is your one and only (You). Hope you enjoy it.

>>712965370
>there was zero reason to use a one when mentioning it.
I feel like I'm going insane. There's zero reason to use an X when mentioning it too, ever. Where does the X come from? What's the logic?

>>712957060 (OP)
The PSX is a fan name for the original Sony Playstation that came from English language video game magazines in the US before that model of PSX was made.

It's the same reason the NES and SNES designations exist despite those systems being known verbally as the "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo" in America. Every console the gaming magazines talked about had to have some abbreviated designation like that.

>>712957060 (OP)
In australia, in gaming mags, it was referred to as the psx. When this >>712958094 was released, mainstream media started to call the playstation a psx.
That's what happens when a country enforces trademarks, thankfully.

>>712965440
Initial development codename when Experimental was still part of their label for it.
Games media took it and ran with it, so even after the Experimental part was dropped by the company, the X was already in public consciousness.

>>712965667
>fan name
wrong.

>>712957060 (OP)
because PS is "postscript", so it had to be PSX
it was the off brand system so it had to overcome some obstacles by being the cheap thing for the poors

/vr/-tier thread

>>712958623
based and correct
autistic /vr/fags will cry and piss their pants about this

>>712957060 (OP)
i did because of the magazine

>>712957060 (OP)
Finally someone remembers the actual PSX

I was confused when I started seeing people refer to PS1 as PSX, because PSX was the DVD thing that flopped I thought

>>712966942
the magazine isn't the console.

>>712967090
Was it a flop? I was always under the impression that it was a very expensive luxury item that was only offered to a select few from the start.

>>712957060 (OP)
Nobody cares about your irrelevant niche DVR. You know exactly what most people are referring to when they mention the PSX.

>>712967484
Yup, I just go "oh, he's one of those people who wasn't born when it was around" and move on.

>>712957387
This is the NSX.

>>712957387
kek op btfo

>>712965378
>y-you ha i win!

It was written psx in video game magazines but always spoken as just PlayStation.

Kind of like how no one called the nes the nes back in its day they just called it the Nintendo

>>712965378
You mad, zoomer?

I guess /vr/ stopped feeding this brain-cramped faggot and he needed his acting like a retard fix.

psx.ign.com
psx magazine

People wrote it as PSX but nobody in the real world ever called it anything but "Playstation". "Pee Es Ex" wasn't a thing.
It's like everyone on the internet calls Super Saiyan "SSJ" but nobody ever says "Es Es Jay" in the real world instead of Super Saiyan.

>but don't you see a lot of sources used it
okay, and they were wrong.
what do you want me to say to you?

>>712965370
The syllables are the same but there's less verbal effort to say PS1 compared to Playstation or PSX

Saw this in a uk mag from 98 and thought of you guys. The same uk mag that hated megaman for context.

>>712968132
No you didnt lil zoomer.

>>712968331
He's literally showing it to you
the fuck do you mean

>>712957060 (OP)
PSX is the name of the PS1 to differentiate from the prototype that played CDs as well as SNES games

>>712957387
PS 10 or PS Ex?

>>712968519
PSCross

>>712968132
Fuck off, you retarded child. Everyone called it PSX back then and your "magazine" belongs in the garbage like the entire country of Britain.

>>712968696
>Everyone called it PSX back then
no.

>>712968761
Zoom on, kiddo. You don't know shit. You are not equipped for a conversation on this topic with adults.

>>712968816
So your argument hinges on me being a zoomer
and what if you're wrong?

>>712968908
Show me your ID, then, kid. And no, not your father's.

>>712968930
Are you retarded?

>>712964169
They called it the PlayStation-X to differentiate it from the cancelled SNES PlayStation.

>>712968992
Dodging me now? I accept your concession, zoom zoom.

>>712969045
Okay but the problem is that you are wrong. You can pretend that you aren't but you are.

>>712969083
Prove it.

>>712968384
That not a UK mag, that's a png. He didn't see shit in '98 because spermatozoa don't have eyes you dense troon.

>>712969116
Okay. I never in my life heard or saw the phrase "psx."

That is exactly as much proof as you've offered to the contrary (and you're wrong).

>>712969158
He didn't say he saw it in '98 you flying retard.

>>712969158
https://archive.org/details/playstation-plus-37/page/78/mode/2up?view=theater
I agree that psx was a common and used term. Seeing this argument happen even at the time in a contemporary source was funny so I saved it for the next time I saw a thread.

>>712969216
>Okay. I never in my life heard or saw the phrase "psx."
Because you were born in 2005, moron.

>>712969257
Except I wasn't.

>>712969294
Then stop acting like it.

>>712969323
Well, that is your opinion. But I want to remind you again that you aren't correct.
Your entire premise relies on something that isn't true.

>>712969216
Then how did he know it was in a magazine and not just posted online? Is it a scan of the magazine? Why not post the scan then, or did 4chinx stop allowing pdfs after they got hacked by one?
>>712969250
Thank you anon, today you did good.

>>712969369
Kid, fuck off back to your youtube video essays and let the grown ups have a discussion.

>>712957060 (OP)
Bunch of retards in this thread. Sony released a newer version of the PlayStation called PlayStation One. It was smaller than the original design. To differentiate the versions, people started calling the original design PSX after the original joint project between Sony and Nintendo during the SNES era which Sony pulled out of and developed the PlayStation instead.

>>712958623
ackshually WE called it the nintendo, the sony and the sega

>it was never called the psx

this is the one of the weirder bits of revisionist history that's been inflicted upon the world... the only logical reasoning here is they want for the PS10 to be the PSX but don't want people to be confused.

>>712960518
X is for experimental. It's often given to prototypes such as the XM16 or XM8. Some things keep the X into production, like the Mazda MX and Jaguar XJ series

>>712969469
Still? Really?

>>712969465
>Then how did he know it was in a magazine
by reading it?

>>712967939
this

>>712958623
>we
Prove you were born before 1960.

>>712962475
>called it the PS1 because we knew the greatest console ever was coming in the PS5, with its 32K infinity fps performance

>>712969469
I accept your concession

>>712969893
You already conceded.

>>712969943
I accept your concession

>>712970018
Just a bot. Nevermind.

>>712970047
>NOOOOO YOU'RE A BOT SAAR!!!
I accept your concession

>>712957387
isnt it wonderful living during a time period to see a faggot homosexual like op try and rewrite history you almost want to kill the cunt

>>712957060 (OP)
I don't.

>>712965378
nigger the post

>>712957387
zoomers completely btfo

The ps1 had a gigantic library with HUNDREDS of great/good games and basically infinite hidden gems but the only thing you motherfuckers born 12/31/1999 want to talk about is what elementary school kids called it on the playground in the 20th century.

>>712970781
You mean the mountain of shovelware it had?

>>712957060 (OP)
Ty anon. I havent seen this thread in over a decade. I pray you are a real person and not a bot using old thread formats to generate threads.

>>712967534
Where's the NA V6?

Back in the day we called it the PS1 the PSX before the actual PSX was even released. Because the codename for the PS1 was PSX. That codename was chosen because sony also released the MSX previously.