>I call it the PSX

>>11875828 (OP)
not funny shit thread

Why do people use psx anyway? It was ps1's development codename. No one's going around today calling the ps4 "Orbis" or Xbox One "Durango"

>>11875828 (OP)
I call it PSX by default but when dumbing down my language for retard normies I call it ps1

>>11875847
Were people saying "Orbis" several years after the console was released?

>>11875847
it was the abbreviation magazines used

>>11875854
People making fun of people like in that pic yeah

>I don't tip

>>11875854
Posted 12-18-96
Join date: May 2004

>>11875872
Forum software rebooting probably

>>11875828 (OP)
I call it the Pee es Sex

>>11875847
>he doesn't call his GCube a dolphin

>>11875847
It's not a development codename. It's an acronym dictated by Sony

>>11875847
you dumbass, that's just a coincidence. x is a generic placeholder to fill out an acronym. ps sounds weak on the tongue used in place of a noun and it's potentially confusing, they added an x to round it out.

But why GCN though?

>>11875828 (OP)
I would have preferred if this was another mario spam shitpost.

I genuinely hope no one calls it "Pee Ess Sex" in real life.

>>11876036
I write PSX but I say La Plei Uno out loud

>>11876036
La pé èsse icks

>>11875828 (OP)

>>11875828 (OP)
I call it THE play station

Back when it was launched all the developers called it "PSX" - because that was what the documentation and most of the tools used (I.E. the C compiler was called "ccpsx", the assemblers were called "aspsx" and "asmpsx", all the platform tools were in a directory called "psx", the program you ran to talk to the debugger stub on the target box was called "psxcons", etc.
Later versions of the system library removed mention of "psx" from the documentation, but they remained as part of the tool names and the installation paths right until the system was discontinued.
Apparently the use of "psx" rather than "ps-x" was because originally the tools were hosted on a Sony NEWS workstation which ran Unix. Since '-' is the switch character in the shell, it would have had to be escaped every time you used it, which would have been very annoying, so they just dropped it.
The boot ROM in the console uses both "PS-X" and "PSX" - the default boot file that gets run if the disc doesn't contain a system.cnf is "PSX.BIN" and the magic number (located at byte offsets 0x8 to 0xf) in every PlayStation executable is the ASCII codes for the string "PS-X EXE".
So yes, it really was the name the system was called, but you would have to be as ancient as me to actually remember that.

>>11875828 (OP)
Everyone I know just called it "Playstation". Then when the PS2 came out, everyone called it the PS1. PSX was a marketing term. No kid in real life, other than autist mcspazatron would've called it the PSX. Why is this a source of contention?

>>11876565
Ok, but how did you write it in message boards before the PS2 was a thing? YOU are old enough to have experienced internet in the late 90s, right?

Saw this in a games mag from 98 and thought of these threads. For context, its from the same "quality" UK magazine that trashed megaman legends.
I post it for amusement that people were talking shit about it even then, not as evidence for PSX deniers.

>>11876608
Lmao saved

>>11876608
>For context, its from the same "quality" UK magazine that trashed megaman legends.
Is it also the same mag that said Reiko Nagase was trans?

Sony PlayStation

>>11875854
>posteditagainaward.jpg

>>11876046
Is la "pe ese uno" marica

>>11876663
and will be posted as many times as needed

>>11876608
Lmao, videogame magazines in the 90's where something else

>>11876196
>that cover art
holy shit

i call it the piss sex.

>>11876046
Real men called it EL plei

>>11876697
I'm a Spaniard and we don't change the gender of everything to female for no reason like you South Americans do.

>>11876697
I'm a Spaniard and we don't change the gender of everything for no reason like you South Americans do.

>>11876668
I'm sorry to see you so desperately cling to your single bait image.

>>11876565
PSX was used online. People just called it the PlayStation. People who use “PS1” out themselves as zoomers or youngfags.

>>11876663
The same could be said of anyone who posts "It was not called the PSX!" again

>>11876608
Duane Dibbley is based as hell

>>11876702
makes you think a playstation is female?
ah right. spaniards say "la computadora" instead of "el computador" when male pronouns are considered neutral.

>>11876768
La consola, if you're talking about the Playstation and any other video game console. As for actual computers, we use el ordenador, not la computadora.

>>11876721
>facts are bait
you're retarded.

>>11876776
>La consola
seeing it like that makes sense.
i wasn't trying to be condescending. if it sounded that way, i apologize.
i just find it funny how spaniards sometimes use different genders for some words and i had the impression of having heard "la computadora" or "la ordenadora" being preferred.

>>11875874
The actual forum opened in 2002 and was later migrated in 2004 (thus the registration date) but that specific post is a backdated news archive entry.
https://web.archive.org/web/19971014050341/http://mk.hotweird.com/oldnews/oldnews.cgi?month=12&year=96

>>11875828 (OP)
I call it "La Play"

>>11876608
Oi this 'ere is sum foine UK bantah innit

>>11876790
>if it sounded that way, i apologize.
No need to do that on an anonymous imageboard, it's ok mate

>>11875828 (OP)
I say "US of A" so I call it "PS of X"

I callt it PlayOne.

"i call it the PSX"

>>11876996
I look like this

>>11876996
I'm so glad I don't say this so I don't look like this

>>11875847
>>11875906
For me it's the Ultra 64

>>11876676
It was considered normal once

>>11877021
I know. I miss those days :(

>>11876996
>buying dualshock hardware to play the longbox version of resident evil
But seriously, tank controls deserve the d-pad anyway

>>11876996
i look like that but i don't say that

>>11876196
Snifffffffff

>>11876196
Her remake outfit is so shitty

>>11876782
Cherry picked outliers are typically not considered representative of a whole. So in this particular instance yes, bait.

>>11877468
none of that is cherry-picked though. PSX was regularly used in print as an abbreviation for Playstation.
the only people who deny this are zoomers who don't know because they weren't there.

>>11877468
>EGM
>gamestop
>gameshark
>outliers
you are a fucking retard.

>>11875937
To match with that sing that went, "puffin on the weed smoke, gamecube nintendo" because Nintendo was desperate to attract teenagers. And probably to a lesser extend to avoid confusion with NeoGeo CD and Pocket Color.

>>11875828 (OP)

>>11875828 (OP)
>>11877650

>>11875828 (OP)
>>11877650
>>11877651

>>11877651
what did he need a headset for? talking to his one other co-worker who's 30 feet away from him in a shitty mall games store 24/7?

>>11876608
>UK
>inches
Wot didey mean by dis?

>>11876996
I look like this and I say this. You got me good, bro.

>>11877656
If it really were for some DC launch event, maybe to use the store intercom system to make announcements or tell people what to do. Either that or it just makes him look more official.
I wonder what he's up to now.
>inb4 somebody has located him and he has a reddit account where he whines about politics

>>11875828 (OP)
>that's short for Play Station X
>I got the idea while playing Sega's Sega System system and thinking how much more popular it would have been with a punchier name and an 8-track player

>>11877475
>>11877502
Bait.

>>11877974
retard.

>>11877475
>the only people who deny this are zoomers who don't know because they weren't there.
Truth! I and everyone I knew called it the PSX back in the 90s. It was easier than saying "PlayStation", just like how everyone shortens names like calling the Super Nintendo the SNES or the Nintendo 64 the N64. Everyone shortened PlayStation to PSX back then.

Nobody called it the PS1 because there was no PS2 yet, just like nobody called the original Xbox the "Xbox 1" back then. If anything, PSOne was used to specifically refer to the slim version, which came out AFTER the PS2 anyway. The only ones insisting on PS1 are zoomers where the PSX was before their time.

I've always called it the PS1 because I knew there were several, a kid at school had a PS3 because his father worked at Sony.

It's es-en-ee-es. Not SSNESSSSSS

>>11875852
I was anti-PSX, but actually I think it sounds cool so I might start saying it

>>11878071
SSNESSSSSS drunk

>>11878067
idk bro everyone I knew just called is the playstation
and then when the ps2 came out ps1 it is.

>>11878068
How do you know they weren't going to call the next one the Super PlayStation or something else entirely? I remember an old G4 ad when they were talking about hoping to hear news about the "XBox 2" at E3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBVArvGRhB0

>>11878101
Actually you're right, the joke doesn't work...

... because nobody trying to pretend they had a "playstation 2" would call it a PS2, they'd have called it the PSX2

>>11878197
PS2 is easier to say than PSX2, that's the whole reason people were saying PSX instead of PlayStation. Notice how most abbreviations of consoles are 3 letters, usually more are only used when it's not possible to use three letters alone to make it obvious what you are talking about (such as NES vs SNES, everyone came to the logical conclusion of just putting an S in front of NES).

>>11878209
you kinda right
no one said the xbox 360, they said the '360'

>>11876996
Creatively bankrupt.

>>11875847
i think i might start call all xboxes "Durangos"

>Durango
>Durango 360

etc.

>>11878209
PSX and Playstation have the same number of syllables

>>11878302
Still easier to say, as well as write. The Nintendo also had the same number of syllables as NES but people still used that.

>>11878367
but nobody ever spoke PSX aloud. it was a written thing

>>11878372
Yes they did

>>11878389
No they really didn't. Like, maybe you and your weirdo friend group did or something, but PSX was a written phenomenon and not a spoke one for the vast majority.

>>11878425
NTA but wrong. And if you want to be a cunt about it, one of the biggest gaming magazines at the time was called PSX and you bet your ass people said its title aloud. Eat shit bitch.

PSX sounds cooler, imposing, ominous. PS1 sounds weak, weeny, it feels sorry for itself.

>>11878441
not wrong, nobody said that shit out loud to refer to the console. it was a written thing

>dude im so good at writing dialogue i can have characters ramble about pointless shit for 20 minutes and it feels so realistic and all my characters are sociopaths who say nigger all the time to create this dark bleak vibe im going for. all the feet and talk of bbc is part of the experience bro trust me
name a more forced director than tarantino

>>11878425
Hate to break it to you but you were the weirdo if you didn't call it that verbally too.

>>11878480
>not wrong
Yes you are

>>11878284
GREAT! I CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY SOME DURANGOS!

>>11878480
Wrong.

>>11878494
>>11878516
nope, sorry zoomer. nobody really said PSX out loud, it was purely a written thing.

>>11878528
wrong

>>11878528
>tries to avoid being found out as a zoomer by accusing others of being a zoomoer
Sorry zoom zoom, but you clearly were just a sperm back then if you think nobody said it out loud. I bet you think nobody blew into NES cartridges either.

>>11878528
https://youtu.be/9IiEEtTjINs?si=jJ2W-YNKrejeqRTv&t=30

>>11878516
>>11878528
>>11878571
>>11878579
riveting exchange

>>11878528
>>11878589
D E S T R O Y E D

>>11878571
>>11878579
>>11878625
nice try, zoom zoom.
>>11878589
>Tommy Tallarico
lmfao you really sure you want to cop to acting anything like this tool

>>11878680
>Zoom zoom malding that he has been found out
Many such cases, go back to your "retro" discord

>>11878687
>malding
whatever you say, zoomer

>>11878697

>>11878707
it's a kid saying zoom zoom from a Mazda commercial, zoomer
you definitely don't know what this is though

>>11878680
You got shown live footage of someone back then literally saying psx and yet you keep going. Pathetic.

>>11878790
>one guy who is part of the industry says it once on TV
>NORMAL PEOPLE SAID IT IN CASUAL SPEECH ALL THE TIME
lmfao. retard

>>11878790
>>11878528
>nope, sorry zoomer. nobody really said PSX out loud, it was purely a written thing.
Have some humility, you clown.

>>11878808
humility about what? being right?
go be a faggot elsewhere.

>>11878814
>>nope, sorry zoomer. nobody really said PSX out loud, it was purely a written thing.
Meanwhile in reality >>11878589

The mental gymnastics of PSX-denialists is something else.

>>11877669
Nobody will ever be convinced of metric. It's simply a terrible measurement system.

>>11878738
>it's a kid saying zoom zoom from a Mazda commercial, zoomer
Congratulations zoomie, you can use Google, you're almost not retarded, except for the fact that you failed to understand the image was referring to you in your mad dash to try to "prove" you're not the zoomie everyone knows you are.

Literally pages of images of people calling it PSX, a video of people at an event calling it the PSX, every anon here telling you people called it, verbally too, the PSX. Nobody who isn't terminally retarded would deny it at this point.

>>11878815
I already addressed this. see >>11878794
Besides, if you don't know that Tommy Tallarico was a massive tryhard faggot who regularly did and said things nobody else did because he was essentially a tourist who got a job making music for games, you're a zoomer.

>>11878835
I didnt have to Google, everybody from my age group starts hearing the song in their head the moment they see that kid.
as I've said, people called it the PSX as a written abbreviation. in writing. kids at school weren't saying "PSX" to each other. if you think they were, you weren't there.

>>11878835
It's PS1, this is a PSX: >>11878830 Don't know why you're pretending it doesn't exist, but there it is.

>>11878838
>Doesn't count because it's Tommy!
Picrel

>>11878843
>kids at school weren't saying "PSX" to each other
Yes they were
>if you think they were, you weren't there.
If you think they weren't you are proving you are a zoomie

you're all retarded
PSX was a print abbreviation, nothing more

>>11878856
>claim is that regular people said PSX all the time in casual speech
>evidence of known tryhard tourist Tallarico saying PSX at an industry event is presented to support this claim
>"your evidence does not support your claim"
>OMG LE HECKING MOVING GOALPOSTERINOS
lmfao. retard

>>11878738
"people said PSX" kid still hasn't identified this.
curious... almost like he can't because he wasn't alive in the 90s

>>11876205
Its official. Nights into Dreams fans confirmed for being into games made for young kids

only nerds called it duh pee ess exx out loud like the troglodytes they are.
>posting tommy tallarico as an "own"
lol lmao

My friends and I used ps1 and psx interchangeably up until the ps2 came out and we moved to calling it ps1 most of the time then moved on to not really talking about it at all.

>>11878875
>>OMG LE HECKING MOVING GOALPOSTERINOS
If you're trying to convince people you're not a zoomie you are doing a terrible job

>>11878838
Too bad you had already said >>11878528
>nobody really said PSX out loud
Oh no! You're dead wrong. Eat shit bitch.

>>11875828 (OP)
>>11875854
What does the X even stand for?

>>11878935
why would I care what any of you faggots think? lmfao. retard
>>11878936
>daahhhh what r qualifiers
I guess you're autistic given that you think that was an absolute statement

>>11878941

>>11878956
>why would I care what any of you faggots think?
Is that why you won't stop posting here? Pretty sure it's past your bedtime junior.

>>11878960
it's the middle of the afternoon in the part of the world that matters, saar

>>11878965
>it's the middle of the afternoon
Exactly, you shouldn't be up this late

>>11875854
The original Playstation was just called Playstation when it released, people retroactively started calling it the PS1 or PSX only after the PS2 came out so as to differentiate them.

>>11878970
too mindbroken to even come up with attacks that make sense lol
better luck next thread

>>11878941
Xanadu

>>11878974
>people retroactively started calling it the PS1 or PSX only after the PS2 came out so as to differentiate them
My anon in Christ just about all of those examples are from before the PS2

>>11878976
>Mindbroken zoomie too mindbroken to understand insults anymore
You are a perfect example of the average intelligence of someone who thinks people didn't say PSX

You're know you're a real piece of shit when you get proven wrong by actual video footage and yet you still keep going. I wish harm upon you and your loved ones. Inshallah.

>>11879018
Oh, but that video "Doesn't count"! Why? Because he said so! Actually, because it completely destroys his argument, so better move the goalposts to claim it's invalid

>>11878919
>My friends and I used ps1
Me too buddy. I also used to call the Switch 1, now that finally the Switch 2 came out I feel vindicated.

>>11879041
>mfw I used to say "Wii1" in anticipation to the Wii2 and it became the WiiU instead

>>11879047
When has Nintendo ever named a system "(Name) 2" before the Switch 2? I'm honestly surprised they didn't even call it the Switch Next or something. Sony are pretty much the only ones that follow the "add one" naming scheme, just about none of the other major and even most minor console manufacturers did that since gen 1.

>>11879087
To be frank when I first heard the next Playstation would be called Playstation 2 I thought it was the dullest most uncreative piece of shit naming ever

>>11878919
OK now this is just pure fantasy. Nobody was calling the Playstation PS1 before we even knew there would be a two. Even if you thought Sony was going to make a follow up console, consoles in 90% of the cases had different names instead of just being numbered follow-ups at that point in time. You're genuinely either making shit up for replies (congratulation on getting mine by the way, you succesfully baited me) or you're mixing up your memories from before and after the PS2 announcement

>>11879382
>He doesn't live in the region in which the SNES was named the NES 2, the N64 named the NES 3, the Genesis named the Master System 2, The Saturn name Master System 3 and so on

>>11879382
I called in the ps1 in 1994 in japan when it released. We knew there would be a ps2 from the day it released.

>>11879087
Super game boy 2

>>11879404
>We knew there would be a ps2 from the day it released.
Sony didn't even think that >>11853008
Good job getting another reply from me thought, I'm the retarded one in this conversation by continuing to reply.

noobs call it ps1

Show me ONE written source from the period before the PS2 announcement where they call it PS1

>>11879394
>Master System
You mean the Sega System

>>11878758
>
zoom zoom

>>11879087
Wasn't the AV Famicom technically called Famicom 2 or did I just make that up?

>>11879445
Third party Maga can call it what you want I got teh ones which come with a demo

>>11875828 (OP)
And that is why your codename is Mr. Pink.
>>11876849
This Anon descends from el Cid Campeador.

>>11878209
There is literally a magazine calling it PSX2 ITT

>>11876665
Yeah it is, only ballgarglers call it "La Play 1". Real, nose-breathing men call it "El Play 1".

>>11878441
I can also verify that nobody said PSX in speech, yes it was written that way in several gaming magazines, but everyone called it a playstation

i call every console the nintendo

I call it the Sega Genesis a SEGG

>>11878197
>>11878209

>>11880932
I'm going to start calling it the PSX2 too now, that way people will know I'm an oldfag

>>11880932
what is this faggot store doing selling ps1 games for 50 bucks in 2000

>>11880923
>SEGG
Sega's Extremely Great Genesis?

>Another PSX thread
There is no time to explain! Every Anon here is very important.
Pic related !

>>11878941
Xbox

>>11875854
>umm actually they called it psx before the ps2 happened
Just signaling for heckin based oldfag points then lmao

>>11881035
Why does the acronym PSX offend you so much, zoomer? not the only zoomer I've seen offended by it btw.

>Why does the acronym PSX offend you so much, zoomer? not the only zoomer I've seen offended by it btw.
zoom zoom

^look mom I'm projecting!

>^look mom I'm projecting!
zoom zoom

>
zoom zoom

>>11875828 (OP)
>>11875854
>>11881164
Don't care. Still calling it PS1.

>>11875847
>No one's going around today
this is /vr/, and my people and magazines used to call it PSX. didn't change to PS1 until PS2 was a thing. i was there.
>>11875854
yes i was on GFaqs before it turned into leftypol too.

>>11876730
this

>>11881424
>"Don't care. Still going to be a zoomie"

>>11881462
>>"Don't care. Still going to be a zoomie"
zoom zoom

So how do I call original Playstation if I don't want to get /vr/-crowd irritated?

>>11881469
PlaystationX One

>>11881469
PSI

>>11881469
you can literally call it either, the autism comes from people arguing ironically and unironically about how noone ever called it PSX. In 2025 people know what both terms mean so it doesnt matter what you say.

pee & sex

>>11876196
FF7 looks like THIS?! Dayum

>>11879041
>>11879382
There were rumors of the ps2 before it was officially announced in 1999. We were calling it the ps1 by 97 I'd say, around the time when mgs came out. People were saying Xbox 1 way before the Xbox 1 was even announced.

I know the official way to abbreviate PlayStation was always just PS, but IMO 2 letters just looks insufficient and weak (unless it's FC or GB, for some reason these work), PS definitely needs another character and while PS2 looks cool and futuristic, PS1 looks weak, plus PSX just has the X which can be linked to words like eXtreme or eXperimental. It can even be associated with Sony's later PS eXperia. It's just cool and rebellious in a way PS or PS1 just aren't. Also, I'm doubling down on all of you: P.S.X. looks even cooler and should have been the console's name.
Western magazines clinging to the placeholder codename were so right.

I remember people still calling the N64 the Ultra 64 even in early 00s but somewhere after that everyone just definitely switched to N64 universally.

>>11881990
I agree psx looks cooler and I agree ps looks lame but does everything need to be abbreviated? it’s like a solution to a nonexistent problem. GameCube is GC and when people get weird it’s the GCN or whatever. But how hard is it to just type out GameCube? We aren’t chiseling out messages to eachother. In the time it takes to consider if you want to abbreviate it you can already finish typing it out. Now that we have ps2 ps3 etc ps1 is more than sufficient regardless of people never called it that because everyone know what you mean. It’s like how the original Xbox is easier to call the OG Xbox because now if you say Xbox one people don’t know if you mean the modern console. And to say the first Xbox also gets the point across as well. xbox01 probably doesn’t work. Just whatever conveys your message across easily and fast is sufficient and works. Doesnt need to be something that everyone agrees on in a gamer hive mind if the correct term.

>>11879445
I never met a single person in real life that called it the psx we just called it the PlayStation. I don’t even know where the x character came from or what the reasoning for it is. Back in the 90s we just said PlayStation. The game cases said PlayStation on it. they didn’t say psx anywhere on the jewel case to my memory. it seems contrived to call it the psx. if someone could make it make sense maybe it would seem less made up to me. it just seems like an experiment with branding like how everything in the 90s had an x in it or was extreme. I personally do not care much about the issue but I’m always fascinated when I’m reminded there are people who are adamant that there is a “correct” way to write PlayStation in writing it seems gigaautism pilled

>>11881469
psx. dont mind the schizos.

>>11879047
>n64 2 comes out
>call it gameCUBE instead of gameSQUARE
>?????
>only works if you consider it the 3rd revision of snes
>but what about NES
>then the GameCube is the fourth model
what shape should they have used???? Would it require a layer of transparent plastic housing the true console inside it in opaque plastic?

>be Nintendo fan
>can say n64 Nintendo 64 or ultra 64 if you’re feeling zesty
>be PlayStation fan in 2025
>reeeeeee it’s the psx
>nooo it’s the ps1
>nooo it’s the PS
>noooo it’s the PlayStation

Sony bros are you okay?

>>11881469
The pee ess uno (1).

Piss1

>>11881469
>So how do I call original Playstation

For starters it's PlayStation, not Playstation. Common mistake I know.

>>11882407
>but does everything need to be abbreviated?
Need to be? No, but it's a lot easier to say and type. We even shorten people's names, why do you think people would not shorten the names of products? Hell, even company names are shortened, SEGA was short for "Service Games" for years, only recently did they officially change it to "SEGA Games", Famicom is an abbreviation of Family Computer. If you wanted to say the full name of the NES, it would technically be Nintendo Entertainment System, which very few say in anything outside of basically professional documents. No kid was saying all that back in the day.

>GameCube is GC and when people get weird it’s the GCN or whatever.
IIRC GCN is Nintendo's official abbreviation for it, but most people though just used GC. Kinda like how the Wiimote is not an official name, it's the Wii Remote, but everyone called it Wiimote because it's shorter and easier.

>>11882442
>>call it gameCUBE instead of gameSQUARE
Makes sense, Square had left Nintendo during the previous and most of that era, and Nintendo's consoles were in bad shape. Also, a square is a 2D shape, a cube is 3D, we don't live in Flatland.

>>11882738
GameCube is two syllables and GCN is not that much shorter than GameCube where it matters or not if it’s shorter. NES in non shorthand is like 10 syllables and makes much more sense to shorthand. PlayStation is a 3 syllable word there is no need to shorthand it like it matters in any meaningful way unless you are writing the word like 10 times in a post. Again it just seems like a made up problem. This is the only place I ever see people talk about this and maybe in weird Reddit threads from google searches. I’m sure in discord servers people get anal about it also. normal people just do not care about the “accepted” abbreviations of toys from 20x years ago.

>>11882760
Unlike the NES, PSX was not pronounced "pee es ex". People just said playstation when they were speaking. Similar to how Mr. is mister not "em are". Also people only talk about this here because zoomers refuse to accept that PSX was a commonly accepted abbreviation for playstation and argue about it with people who were actually around at the time.

>>11883508
It was not commonly used, it was commonly printed. It seems like the only people using it today have a derogatory stance on PlayStation, and they do not get to define one of the greatest consoles of all time.

That's just how it is.

>>11883512
This might surprise you kiddo but social media wasnt a big deal back then. Print media did a majority of the written discussion of the Playstation. Nobody at the time batted an eye when somebody wrote PSX and nothing you can say can change that fact.

>>11882760
>GameCube is two syllables
You are focusing a hell of a lot on how many syllables something is. That has little bearing here, people abbreviate things for more than just how many syllables they have. You are also making the grave mistake of assuming this only mattered in print, it did not. What, do you think only magazines called it PSX but everyone in conversation said "PlayStation"?

>NES in non shorthand is like 10 syllables
Are you stupid? NOBODY said "Nintendo Entertainment System" outside of corporate advertising materials. Just like nobody says Lego Brand Building Blocks instead of just Lego.

>PlayStation is a 3 syllable word there is no need to shorthand it like it matters in any meaningful way
Yet people did it anyway, because you know what? "How many syllables does it have" is not the only and and-all reason people abbreviate things.

>Again it just seems like a made up problem.
The only thing made up here is your syllables argument

>This is the only place I ever see people talk about this
That very image with all of the examples was stolen from the PSX subreddit (and yes, that's literally what the subreddit is called) which has it in a stick post, and that subreddit itself stole that image from other sites. The fact that you have personally not run into other sites calling it PSX does not mean much.

>>11883508
>PSX was not pronounced "pee es ex"
Yes it was. Source: I was actually alive at the time, also >>11878589

>Also people only talk about this here because zoomers refuse to accept that PSX was a commonly accepted abbreviation for playstation
It's more zoomers try to insist it was only written in print because that's the only evidence they have of it, surviving magazines and photos of them, the fact that you think nobody called it PSX out loud is proof that you was not alive at that time and are basing this "It was only in print" argument on the fact that you was not alive back then to have heard it.

>>11883512
Wrong, see above

>>11883526
Nobody insinuated that. More bad faith from the PSX doesn't exist crowd.

>>11883552
Incorrect, see this post.

>>11875854
I question the veracity of this source.

>>11878454
Based bouba and kiki thinker.

>>11876608
Reads like it was written by picrel (Stuart Campbell). It's that typical tryhard edgy insult style that was never particularly funny. Glad he got btfo'd on the neo-geo forums that time.

>>11883552
I’m honestly convinced anyone that cares this much about this whole PSX thing -here—or on some subreddit—is just weird. I knew a lot of people in real life during the 90s who I talked to about videogames and perhaps I just don’t remember but I do not remember a single person ever vocally saying PEE ESS EX or PLAYSTATION X. verbally it was just the playstation. I can’t imagine anyone calling it the PSX verbally unless they were just going out of their way to try to look trendy or smarter or something like wearing a different hat or different shoes to impress their friends. It’s completely pointless to go out of your way to call it that verbally regardless of what some sources called it in print.


I make the syllable argument because it’s asinine laziness to shorthand everything that is already short. People can do what they want ultimately but where it gets absurdly autistic is for people to then tell YOU how to shorten if it you do it. ps1 is a logical shorthand and more intuitive than psx. I’m going to bed but if you care feel free to tell me the origin of the psx thing if it’s even known. I’m interested to know if this was just of some unknown origin or if it was pushed by Sony.

BTW dude I grew up playing quake 3 on dialup I’m not a fucking zoomer I just never knew anyone who called it or wrote it as PSX

>>11883573
>Incorrect, see this post.
Incorrect, see not being a zoomer

>>11883639
>I’m honestly convinced anyone that cares this much about this whole PSX thing -here—or on some subreddit—is just weird.
It's just the subreddit for the original PS1, and they put up that sticky to avoid arguments, most don't care and use PS1 and PSX interchangeably there. It's not a subreddit to insist on calling it PSX if you think that's what it's about. There were definitely people calling it PSX verbally back then, if not more often than just simply saying "Play Station". Don't forget that everything back then was also "XTREMEEEEE!!!!!" and people liked using the word X in everything.

And again, people don't shorten things or make things into acronyms just for the sake of syllables. And again, PS1 makes no sense before the PS2 existed. Nobody was calling it the PS1 back then, we didn't even have a reason to believe the next system would be called the PS2 and not Super PlayStation or MegaStation or something.

Also dude, I grew up playing NES, by the time Quake 3 came out I was already a man... ok, I was halfway through highschool but close enough. By the time you could take games online I had already been gaming for well over a decade.

>>11883708
holy bot post

>>11881469
Pee Ass X Oh Gee

>>11883624
Stu’s blog is based as fuck if you’ve the slightest interest in politics.

>>11876538
>Apparently the use of "psx" rather than "ps-x" was because originally the tools were hosted on a Sony NEWS workstation which ran Unix. Since '-' is the switch character in the shell, it would have had to be escaped every time you used it, which would have been very annoying, so they just dropped it.
It's always those damn Unix nerds!

>>11875847
Because it follows the same name convention as the rest of the consoles? You pretty much answered your own dumbass question. The names are incremental. The first PlayStation didn’t even have a number. So it’s better to call it psx since it’s not actually called the PlayStation 1 so ps1 wouldn’t make sense. It’s just the PlayStation.

>>11876730
>People who use “PS1” out themselves as zoomers or youngfags.
I was 6 when the PS1 came out
We called it 'The Playstation' as in the only Playstation
If the have a PS2 and a PS3 etc then you have to say PS1
If you say 'The Playstation' that's referring to the current Playstation

'I'm buying The Playstation' - 'Yes, I too will be buying a Playstation 5'
>OH MY FUCKING GOD you absolute NORMCORE zoomnoob cringe fuckpig cunt! I can't believe you ACKTCHUALLY thought I was implying the PS5 when in actual literal physical fact I simply stated that I'm going to buy a 1994 PSX, what the FUCK

>>11884072
>>OH MY FUCKING GOD you absolute NORMCORE zoomnoob cringe fuckpig cunt! I can't believe you ACKTCHUALLY thought I was implying the PS5 when in actual literal physical fact I simply stated that I'm going to buy a 1994 PSX, what the FUCK
meds

>>11884072
>I was 6 in 1995 and I couldn't read, therefore no one ever wrote PSX. Yes I'm solipsistic like that!

>>11875828 (OP)
Imagine getting angry over how ppl prefer to use an unofficial name for a console

>>11883690
Correct, I am too old to be a zoomer, ergo you're incorrect. It is not the PlayStationX. Even if Tommy Tallarico disagrees.

>>11884163
You are basically plugging your ears and going "La la la, I can't hear you, nobody said PSX" at this point.

We used to call it a GPS
Because we thought it was great, The GreatPlaystation
This was before GPS for cars and roads and stuff
Then we would get ice cube trays out the freezer and put them underneath the GPS to cool it manually
The performance gains we great too, we could bump up a game from 27 fps all the way to 30fps by using ice

>>11884168
Wrong. Nobody said that. The PSX exists, it's a PlayStation 2 DVR system. You know this yet deny it.

>>11884261
>Trying now to detail the argument with the DVR
Out of ways to try to insist nobody commonly called the original PlayStation the PSX?

>>11884272
>now
The PSX has existed since 2003, you may not have been born yet but the PSX existed just as much as the headlines did.

>>11884274
And people calling the PS1 the PSX verbally existed long before you were born, I know because I was actually alive at that point and not just a sperm. Few outside of Japan knew about the DVR and fewer cared. Even the "PSX" reddit is about the PlayStation, not the PS2 DVR.

Let me spelling it for you: If you're saying the PS1, you're wrong.

>>11884282
There may have been some people born before I was, that is in fact a possibility. However this does not matter. It's the PlayStation, and the PSX is something different entirely. PS1 for short, just so people know you're not talking about the family but rather the original.

>>11884294
See >>11875854

>>11884297
You're seen. Now see: >>11884294
You are simply incorrect. It's OK. It happens.

Is it pronounced Pee Ess Ecks or Pee Ess Cross?

>>11884316
See >>11875854 then cry some more

>>11880812
>my beanlish is better than yours
stfu retard, you’re both brown

>>11884336
You're seen, and simply incorrect. You don't take being wrong very well.

>>11884261
You're the same as the Sega System poster.

>>11884364
>You don't take being wrong very well.
You're clearly an expert at being wrong

>>11884379
I'm not, but you do have the same posting style as him. Why is that? Do you dislike PlayStation or something?

>>11875847
Playstay xen, it's how you abbreviate the word

I

>>11878941
10. They originally were going to skip 1-9 and jump straight to Playstation 10 but ultimately decided on calling it "The Playstation One."

PSX is the way to separate it from PS2 and PS3. PS1 makes no sense without PS2, which didn’t exist. PSOne came out when they knew they were developing PS2. So it’s definitely called PSX.

psx = ps2 mediastation

>>11875828 (OP)
i call it the Sony 1

The unsexy truth is that everybody who was actually alive during this period just called it Playstation or rarely "PS" in casual face to face conversation, and Playstation, PS or PSX were used in nearly equal instances online based entirely on whether or not the person typing was a heavy reader of game magazines that used PSX as an abbreviation, or had no knowledge of such things and just referred to the console by its given name. The period-appropriate and layman's abbreviation is ultimately just "PS", with either PSX or PS1 being suitable monikers in the world of today.

>>11880923
what do you answer if someone tells you to have seggs?

>>11876196
this was driving me nuts, for a second i thought it might be some really really early Mogudan art, but the source is tony taka, who's art you've probably run into over the years without realizing it.

It was psx to me back in the day during playground arguments and it will remain psx forever.

>psx scart leads

>>11875828 (OP)
Nobody CALLED it that, that's just what they typed.

>>11875847
>>11875854
>>11877017
Ironically this. Me and my friends were calling it the Ultra 64 for about a year after launch because that was the name the N64 was given by all magazines, until a few weeks before launch.

>>11878941
>What does the X even stand for?

It was an internal project name that Sony used to differentiate the stand along unit from the original Playstation SNES add-on.

>>11875828 (OP)
It’s called PSX because that’s what it is. PS1 came out later as in the original PlayStation’s lifetime. Maybe even post PS2 I forget exactly when. I know my friend had one and I always thought it was shit.

>>11889571
I really don't know how you got mogudan from that. His earliest days have always been drawing Rei and urinals.

>>11877021
Yeah. Truly a relic from a more civilized age.

>>11891750

Another early article about the Sony Playstation.

>>11891750

>>11891750

Early article from 1991 featuring information on a potential SNES CD-ROM drive, along with early info on the Genesis/ MD CD.

>>11891750

>>11891758
that's what he's known for sure, but it's not all he used to draw.
even nowadays he will draw things that aren't Rei.
although now he's mostly focused on Tatsumaki from OPM

>>11891758
that's what he's known for sure, but it's not all he used to draw.
even nowadays he will draw things that aren't Rei.
although now he's mostly focused on Tatsumaki from OPM.
if you wanted to know who my brain also tried to line up that art with, it's Kenix, who i miss dearly

>>11891750

Some sources say that the X stood for 'experimental' and others say it was a play on MS-X. Here's an early article from April 1994 issue of Computer Gaming World that calls it the PS-X. This was from a rumour section.

>>11891849
is this outlaw star

>>11891886
yep, title is in the filename, although it believe this is a sequel doujin