>>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
