Actual proof that it was called the 'Playstation' back then and NOT 'PSX': https://youtu.be/qzVJYsxR8j0
>>730903615Who the fuck cares eurosnoyfaggot
I never heard the term "PSX" until I was almost 30. It's possible adults called it that then, but all the kids and my parents called it a Playstation, then pivoted to Ps1 when Ps2 came out.
>>730903615Well yeah, it was their first console.I only ever saw PSX used as an abbreviation or short hand when magazines or articles were referencing multiple consoles
>>730903615Who the hell cares?
>>730903615It's always been Play Station. PSX is the name of a specific version of PS2 with added DVR functions and the original version of the XMB.
>>730903615Nobody says P-S-X. It's an abbreviation for writing, not for speech.
>>730904351What does the X stand for?
Why was IGN's PS1 web domain psx.ign.comWhy was there a PSX magazineIt was colloquially referred to as PSX, never officiallyZoomer fucking moron
Literally never saw 'PSX' until I looked into indiefag communities where everyone is trying to make pixelshit games, so I just assume anyone who calls it that is some kind of mentally ill.
>>7309045091
>>730903615And now we know why Microsoft entered gaming with the Xbox.
>>730904597One begins an O.
>>730904597more like 5as in, check it
>>730904534No one used "PSX" in speech. It was exclusively for online discussion and ISO dumps. Very few people were online then as well, so almost no one would have encountered the term during the normal lifecycle of the console.
>>730904723magazines used it extensively, and this was the era when games magazines were at their most popular
>>730904659PSO is already taken by Phantasy Star Online
It's never been called the PSX. Fuck your Mandela effect
>>730904689off by 4!
>>730904723psx.ign.com was essentially the place to get news in like 97-98. If someone said "PSX" you would know they were either referring to the console or a magazine/website associated with it, and if you didn't you were a retard.
>>730903615No fucking shit it's called Playstation? It's on the packaging and manual and console and jewel boxes. A thread died for this.
>>730904784It really wasn't. There was one magazine named PSX, and PSX was the codename from before the console was officially being sold.
>>730904001This people who had playstations were the kids who ate glue, popular kids had the N64 and fun games you could play together like Mario and smash
>>730904784Magazines dont talk, retard.
>>730903615For some reason it was on the side of rental cases. Like how gamecube games had GCN for the gamecube nintendo
>>730904110PSX was the original name before launch which gaming websites still stuck with as an abbreviation for Playstation. The thing you're talking about came later.
>>730905638Shit, I remember this now too. This was the main place I saw it since we didn't have internet at the time. I remember wondering if it was a different console at first but then recognizing the games and figuring it was the same thing.
>>730904818That'd imply that OP actually lived through those times and isn't some half illiterates kid.
>>730903615it was always playstation, then ps1 when ps2 came out, the only people who ever said psx were some deranged americans
>>730903615Wait, why wouldn't it be PlayStation?
>>730903615Wow.
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>>730906501>Wait, why wouldn't it be PlayStation?There's a long time zoomer /v/ autist trying to gaslight people that it was always commonly called the PSX
>>730903615>>>/vr/ and stay there with your dead schizos.
it will be confusing when playstation 10 comes out
>>730903615wasn't PSX just the name of a later released model of the PS1?
>>730904509Xigger
There's a vid of a developer in the 90s calling it the PSX but i can't find it
>>730906650it just keeps getting longerfucking retarded zoomers, as always, BTFO
>>730906914only revisionist history zoomer here is you, lil' broc
>>730906914you're the zoomer dude. The name was Playstation but PSX was the abbreviation used because that's what the name was until it was changed before launch.
it's eternally online jargon and used in magazines to save inkit was always gay and retarded
>>730906914He posts on /vr/ too, in fact I'm halfway convinced he's the one who spams "sega system" there
>>730907848>was never commonly called PSX>only referred to as PSX in some written text and niche online forums at the timeThanks for proving my point I guess?
Sega System
>>730908170nice cope, tardo>>730906650>a...all those magazines are..niche...>Ridge R...Racer....i..is niche...>IGN and Activison's website and Gamefaqs..a..are..n..niche... and since you are probably the same broccoli stench retard who says this same shit every time let me cut you off: the claim is not that it was some universal termSome people used it, most probably didn't in conversation with others, but it WAS referred to as the PSX at times.Q.E.D. lil broc shitter
>>730903615>opposite of workstation is playstationkino
he knows it was called the PSXhe knows he's lying and making shit uphe does it for attention as do most "ebin trols"
>>730903615No one fucking claims it was called PSX _INSTEAD OF_ playstation you ridiculous mong. The claim is that PSX was the official abbreviation used in product order forms and such, and that it absolutely was.
>>730903738You, for replying.
>>730903615>>730908397>for 30+ years it never occured to me that the name playstation was a play on workstationWTF pls tell me im not the only one
People who call the Playstation the PSX are the same people who insist that Doom is meant to be played without a mouse. Basically, zoomers desperately trying to look like boomers.
>>730908529Doom was absolutely designed for keyboard only you dumb bastard.Yes, it had mouse support. No one used it. It was stupidly awkward and not remotely usable.
>he has to keep ignoring the proof posted to keep up his retarded charade lmaololnot only a retard, but a retarded pussy, too
>>730903615Zoomers want to fit in so bad. Yes the PlayStation was called the PlayStation. PSX was just the nickname/abbreviation.
>>730908434>The claim is that PSX was the official abbreviationBut this is also wrong kek
not op but im pretty sure it wasn't called the psx, he may be retarded but he's not wrong
>>730903615https://youtu.be/7f8ht4AZ7sg?si=imFsdLGIVEbvOnjW
>>730903615This is a very bizarre thing to pretend to care deeply about.
I excitedly awaited EGM every month. Everyone referred to the PlayStation as psx before it officially released as PlayStation. EGM might've been the one to coin the name.
Pleikkari
>>730907712FOUND IThttps://youtu.be/9IiEEtTjINs?t=49
>>730903615>>730903747Ameritards on the internet absolutely did call it the PSX in the late 90s-early 00sEveryone else called it the PS/Playstation then PS1 after the 2 came out and thought they were retarded
>>730903615The Sega System™
>>730905027>it really wasn'tIt really was. Magazines, websites, message boards, many used PSX as a shorthand from the late 90s to mid 00s because "PS" was a weak abbreviation. Nobody wanted the shorthand to be the same as "postscript" and virtually all other game systems had nice three-letter abbreviations at the time. N64, GBC, GBA, XBX... Others also had a letter added to give them a three letter abbreviation, like the NDS and GCN for Nintendo systems.. Only a few outliers like the SNES or the Dreamcast (DC) didn't slot in neatly into the three letter abbreviation set.We were late into the PS2's lifespan until the X was quietly dissolved, replaced with a PS1, because both the PSOne and actual PSX video recorder came into existence.
>>730905638/thread
>>730905031Only in shartistan
https://youtu.be/EyM4jv9s9vs?t=53
This thread is proof positive that 4chan is now overrun with 15 year old, broccoli haired faggots.The PS1 didn't become the PS1 until the PS2. It was referred to as the 'PSX' in magazines, websites, and everywhere else.You stupid cunts wouldn't know that, since you weren't there, so shut the fuck up.
Back when I was a kid we just referred to it as the "PlayStation". I wasn't online during the time though and I didn't start reading gaming magazines until the PS2 so I dunno really know if PSX was more common. But in person with my other kid friends, we would just say PlayStation. Eventually that turned into "PS1" after the 2 came into existence.
I remember PSX being used on forums because it was faster to type. I don't remember anyone ever saying that its real name was Playstation.
>>730909797I mean, saying that it WASN'T playstation
>>730908527Me either. Pwehhhooouuoohhh
>>730908527
>>730908527Bro I was too young to know wtf a workstation was back then and it's so outdated that I have never heard of a workstation since I started working in HS.
>>730909797How is it faster to type PSX than to type PS?
>>730910976Post Script?
>>730903615No shit a Sony exec calls it by its actual name. You're a moron.
>>730904509It was the era of being obsessed with the 'coolest' letter X. X-Games, Xbox, Generation X, X Files, X-Men. PSX was just one more
>>730908962>Ameritards on the internet absolutely did call it the PSX in the late 90s-early 00sCan confirm. It was very common.
>>730910976PS just sounds retarded. People also tried to call Xbox as XB and it didn't catch on.
>>730903615Ausfag millennial here. Literally never ever have I heard anyone ever call it PSX.
You rolled up into your gameshop you had the>N64 Sectionand the >PSX Sectionand if it was really spicy you had the>SAT Section100% godly busting uncapped this is how it was. This is such a weird thing revision.
Yeah no kidding idiot. There are plenty of people now with PS4 or PS5 who just call it "playstation". Nobody called it the "NES" back then either--they just called it Nintendo, or The Nintendo.
>>730904509SeckXs
>>730905675We called it the PS1 before it was released because we knew the PS5 was coming with GotY Astro Bot.
>>730903615PeeSex
>>7309047231994 was the first big online boom where normies started polluting the internet, due to AOL allowing retards access and Netscape making the web viable.
>>730906650OP = blown the fuck out
Actually it's name was the PSX2, PS2 only refers to specific slim models released after the PS3.
>>730903615I always said Playstation, as did all my friends. Maybe PS One became an acknowledged term by the slim model. I'm only assuming that PSX got popularized by the time that the PS2 came into existence. But maybe I'm misremembering on when people said it and how many people said it.
where would the X be coming from? Why would anyone ever call it that? PSX is an abbreviation used in magazines and purchase catalogues.if you just applied the smallest amount of fucking thought to this you wouldn't have made such an embarrassing thread. what's your next genius revelation going to be? that people used to call the Xbox "the Xbox" and not "the original Xbox"?fucking idiot. jesus fucking christ you're a dumb retard. why do you have internet access? who made the horrible mistake of leaving you unsupervised?
>>730913319calm down
>>730913362NO
>>730903615it was called PSX because magazines needed a TLA
>>730906650This. Playstation was internally codenamed the "Playstation X" by Sony during development (PSX for short). Sony eventually dropped the X and trademarked "PlayStation" as the official name of the console. PSX just stuck, because it is a catchy shorthand. It was widely used in print media and online to refer to the console, but was gradually replaced with PS1 during the PS2 and PS3 eras.
>>730912913i mean, if people really have deluded themselves to think that PSX was ever a thing, might as well roll with it and call it the PSX2, PSX2 etc
>>730914076*PSX3 etc
>>730914076>people really have deluded themselves to think that PSX was ever a thingImagine reading this thread and still coming to that conclusion. Truly brown coded behavior.
Nobody ever said PSX out loud.
>>730906650>cheat code centralbuh-based
>>730906650>post date: 1996>join date: 2004
>>730915248That whole image is literally fake/edited screenshots
>>730904509>>730913319The X stood for Experimental
Daily reminder
>>730903738spbp
OPX is a fag
You've already made this thread too many times, get new material you piece of shit.
>>730908916>Tommy Tallarico>a developer
>>730904509X-Treme
>>730903615Of course no one in the real world actually called it the PSX, but good luck convincing these autists who weren't even alive at the time that when they just cherry pick forum and journoslop. Almost as if they weren't talking to actual people at the time about the Playstation and look online, an extremely niche thing at the time, for references
>>730908962Edge is a Eurotard magazine, Muhammad. You don't know this because it was before your migration.
>>730919481he did work on some games, just not as many as hed like people to think
>>730915671severe fucking cope LOLhttps://www.retromags.com/magazines/every cover there is hereOWNED YOU LYING BITCH LOL
>>730919921>n..nothing counts e..except the "conversations" I imagined with people because I wasn't alive yetwe know lil' broc, we know
who is this faggot creating DAILY threads about how the PS1 was not called "PSX"? Who the FUCK cares?
>>730920447>autist fucktard tries just outright lying now as his new tactic>called out immediately with proof, I checked the first one myselfhttps://www.retromags.com/magazines/usa/psx/embarrassing
>>730920546because he got BTFO like a year ago and seethed about it ever since so he makes these threads constantly.It's exactly the same thing with the retard who is absolutely assblasted when people use the Japanese names of characters and spams the thread with Ken-sama and random kimono men pictures
>>730903615mate i was in some of the earliest "console wars" discussion boards around when AOL first launched. and it 100% was referred to as "psx" back then
>>730919921>Of course no one in the real world actually called it the PSXWhat's funny is these zoomers keep on posting pics of magazines
>>730921162OP guaranteed wasn't even born when AOL was thingYou're wasting your time
>>730908962I always figured it was a foreign thing because you'd never see it if you weren't on the Internet.
>>730903615I saw PSX written online, but i never heard anyone refer to it in person that way.
>>730903615Based.>>730903747This. Never heard that it was called "PSX" until the internet told me so. Everyone I know irl called it playstation, or PS1 when the sequel came out.
>>730908962>Ameritards on the internet absolutely did call it the PSX in the late 90s-early 00sWhy do people lie?
>>730903615Why is it so hard to say it was called the Playstation in human countries and PSX outside of Japan & the USA?
>>730920247No he did not, he took credit for all of those.
>>730909232GCN was the development codename on the nintendo docs (after they stopped calling it project dolphin.) Just like the PSX, the dev code stuck around past the point the marketing team wanted.Other dev names stuck around too, like the original GB was DMG as it was just "Dot Matrix Game" until they figured out what to do with it. It's also why you can still find AGB because the GBA was just the "Advanced Game Boy" until they decided GameBoy Advance was good enough.Journos liked being "in the know" and using the super secret codes past their useful point was like a dog whistle to say "I was there when it was still covered by NDA."
>>730919921>Of course no one in the real world actually called it the PSXy'know now that I think about it we rarely talked about the console itself. We talked about the games, and because the best games tended to be exclusives, the console was implied. Don't need to say you played MGS on PSX when MGS would do.
>>730903615PSX was the codename of the platform, not the console. The first model was the PlayStation, the second model was the PSone. They were both retroactively relabeled as the PS1 when the PSone launched, and this was solidified when the PS2 launched to disambiguate.Why are you retards still doing this song and dance? This is just as retarded as portal A/B faggotry.
>>730906650OP a faggot as usual, no news here.
>>730903615Nah, it was PSX
>>730903615Is PSX/PS1 not a post-release shorthand? I only heard the term recently.
Journos called it the PSX. People online just said PS. Then naturally called it the PS1 after the PS2 came out.
Why would they call it a Play Station 10 if it was the very first one? Stick your Roman Numeral nonsense up yer arse.
>>730903747Wasn't there a smaller version called psx? I assumed thats where the abbreviation came from
>>730924364Playstation = PS1PSone = PS1 SlimPlaystation 2 = PS2Playstation 2 Slimline = PS2 SlimPSX = flopped Japan only PS2 variant
>>730923824>Is PSX/PS1Playstation 1.5 was called the PSX and it stuck. Pass 30yrs and zoomers like you don't remember that there were multiple models of playstations. 1 original, the updated 1 with dual shock controllers which looked exactly the same and the PSX.
People called it the psx for sure. I was there, I remember
>>730924489You're a fucking idiot. That was the PSone, not PSX.
>>730924614Maybe xhe meant the Nintendo Play Station was 1.0 and what we eventually got is 1.5.
>>730904986and your proof for that is a fake AI image just look at the cool boarders 2 text
>>730906650>>730907806>>730907848>>730909797>>730924489>>730903615Alright fuck it I'll stop lurking and actually reply because I was there. First off I think this may be variated based on location, you already have stuff like soda having 4-5 diff names depending on region across the US, let alone whatever the fuck EU people were calling it. But I'm an oldfag so I'll give my honest account and then let you all get back to snarling and arguing.>born 85 so was teen by time I got my Playstation>we just called it Playstation, everyone I knew called it Playstation, we didn't even call it the PS>playstation 2 came out and I got mine late compared to everyone else because I got dreamcast first (KEK)>we just called it the PS2>sometime vaguely around now we began calling Playstation the PS1, it felt natural>I heard PS1 being said basically exclusively for a time>Don't think I heard anyone use the actual name "PSX" until mid or late 2000's. I dunno the exact date (I did tell you I'd be honest)>I definitely saw PSX being typed online by 2007/2008 or so because I recall hunting through emulators back then and seeing it, I lived in a specific place for a year at that time so I can remember that experience very clearly at least>I never heard no ps1.5 shit, I didn't see "PSOne" as a name specifically till being on the internet later. It was just PS1 and then later some people said PSX but we all considered PS1 and PSX the same fucking thing>I lived in the west coast USA entirely during this time
>>730903615Here's some good info about it from some technical documentation.>https://problemkaputt.de/psx-spx.htm"PSX as Abbreviation for Playstation 1In gaming and programming scene, "PSX" is most commonly used as abbreviation for the original Playstation series (occasionally including PSone). Sony has never officially used that abbreviation, however, the Playstation BIOS contains the ASCII strings "PSX" and "PS-X" here and there. The letters "PS" are widely believed to stand for PlayStation, and the meaning of the "X" is totally unknown (although, actually it may stand for POSIX.1, see below).PSX as Abbreviation for POSIX.1According to JMI Software Systems, "PSX" is a trademark of themselves, and stands for "single-user, single-group, subset of POSIX.1" (POSIX stands for something commonly used by HLL programmers under UNIX or so). That "PSX" kernel from JMI is available for various processors, including MIPS processors, and like the playstation, it does include functions like "atoi", and does support TTY access via Signetics 2681 DUART chips. The DTL-H2000 does also have POSIX-style "PSX>" prompt. So, altogether, it's quite possible that Sony has licensed the kernel from JMI.PSX as Abbreviation for an Extended Playstation 2As everybody agrees, PSX should be used only as abbreviation for Playstation 1, and nobody should never ever use it for the Playstation 2. Well, nobody, except Sony... despite of the common use as abbreviation for Playstation 1 (and despite of the JMI trademark)... in 2003, Sony has have released a "Playstation 2 with built-in HDD/DVD Videorecorder" and called that thing "PSX" for the best of confusion."
>>730915671https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video.misc/c/6cXaqHbZtmo/m/x2xTM5aNPuUJYou are the single most raped person who ever lived.
>>730908529>i-i was wrong but you're just a poser anywayRaped. You are a rape victim. Raped mentally and also physically.
>>730903615??????? Nobody thinks it was called PSX verbally, that was just the abbreviation since "PS" was too short/common. It definitely was called PSX by a lot of magazines and early internet sites. Nobody said "PSX" out loud.
>>730925170essentially this. Back in the day ps1 was just the playstation and playstation 2 was the ps2, then it became ps1 after ps2 came out. I never even heard psx until I heard about the emulator. Same way xbox was xbox and the xbox360 was just the 360.
>>730903615>having a mental breakdown at terminology evolving over timeTruly the most worthless and retarded of crusades, and one that never, ever, ever works.
>>730903615Where does the X even come from? It wasn't the tenth playstation
>>730926009it was the 90s, shit just sounded cool
so many gaslighting uncs itt
>>730903615I have my old game magazines from 20 + years ago (egm and gamepro) and psx was a term used even before PS2 came out. No idea why but you see it in print from time to time
>>730904534I'm 33 and I didn't hear about psx until I was 29. It was playstation and then ps1.
>>730913319Because they needed a third letter and it sounds cool
>>730926009
>>730912913Nice I can't believe we are already up to the PSX 5.
