When I was looking at the back of one of my PlayStation games I noticed a most curious phenomena. What do you make of it anons? Have you ever seen it on the backs of some of your PlayStation games?
Nope, never seen that before.
Maybe these Digital Eclipse Software were a bit confused about the unofficial name given to the PlayStation by several magazines at the time.
>>3256210
FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!
>>3256210
>PSX
FUCK
>>3256210
>It's "an anon tries to disprove a rule with an exception" episode.
>>3256210
The PlayStation was called the PSX
So what?
>>3256248
No it wasnt.
There was no reason to add the X when it came out, because there was no PS2 and PSone to have to differentiate from.
PSX is a meme. Barenstein level meme.
>>3256210
Someone should write them an email where he clarifies that the PSX is actually a failed multimedia player.
>>3256248
No, it was called PlayStation and the official abbreviation is PS.
>>3256257
Some companies/magazines called it the PSX, so they stuck the branding on a few things. It faded off pretty quick, who cares?
Is this a /vr/ meme? I'm sort of new.
>>3256265
>Is this a /vr/ meme? I'm sort of new.
yes, PSX is a hoax
>>3256257
>No it wasnt.
Yes, it was. Seems like you were simply too young to read PSX mags back then.
And no, that doesn't mean we called it "PSX" in conversations, just like no one said "let's play some ES EN EE ES".
>>3256274
>Not calling it by its gos given name the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or the Super Family Computer
Ishygddt
>>3256210
DELETE THIS
>>3256274
Nice try dude.
I've been buying magazines since 1994.
Nobody called it PSX besides dumb britcucks
>>3256257
>>3256263
>>3256272
>>3256297
>Nobody called it PSX
>besides
Q.E.D.
>>3256210
FUCK OFF with that photoshop you stupid millenial.
There's a common misconception that only English language magazines used PSX as an abbreviation and that actual developers and the Japanese only used "PS", but there's several press releases on Konami's old Japanese websites where they called it the PSX.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071007120344/http://www.konami.co.jp/ja/news/release/199610.html
>PSXソフト「ボトム オブ ザ ナインス 〜メジャーリーグヒーローズ〜」発売
>PSXソフト「ヴァンダルハーツ〜失われた古代文明〜」発売
>PSX SOFUTO
Checkmate, atheists!
>>3256338
HURR DURR
DIE YOU FUCKING WEEABO
>>3256338
Ouch.
>>3256373
Yeah? And what stupid gook nickname did the Japs call it instead?
Who gives a fuck you LITERAL autists.
>>3256382
>GET BTFO
>DUDE JAPS WHO INVENTED ARE WRONG, HAHA, WHAT DID THOSE FAGGOTS CALL IT? "PLAYSTATION" OR SOMETHING? HAHA
>>3256210
fuck. one less thing to shout at people about on the internet.
>>3256373
DELETE THIS
>>3256373
>hirouia nakisaki
You could've at least invent a name which is actually Japanese.
The guy in that pic is Yutaka Takenouchi, a Japanese actor if someone is curious.
>>3256386
>my autism and OCD are so severe that I'm forced to never abbreviate PLAYSTATION because one gook who was relevant back in the early 90's said so.
wew lad
>>3256373
No such person, no such interview.
>>3256373
THIS straight from the horse's mouth.
Can we just drop this stupid revisionism now, please?
>>3256418
Was it in the CHIN CHON NIP NONG magazine? I think I missed that issue. Still, that guy has potential. Should make some yakuza movies instead of cheap j-drama flicks.
>>3256431
>Really?
Yes, really. Image search is really convenient. Still, it made me chuckle. 7/10
I had more fun with my Ultra 64 than my PSX.
>>3256459
Ultra 64 was such a cool name I wish they hadn't dropped it.
>>3256373
Hiroshima Nagasaki has no say in this.
>>3256467
Saturn is cooler.
In writing everyone called it psx. You fucking youngfags need to get off this goddamned board right now. Fucking shitlords. It was always called psx
>>3256467
They dropped it due to trademark issues, didn't they?
>>3256503
>Sega Saturn
>Not Giga Drive.
>>3256512
In writing people called it playstation.
Source: every video game magazine ever.
INCLUDING: Official Playstation Magazine
>>3256514
It was abbreviated psx.
Now gtfo my lawn
I don't get this meme.
Why people fight over it?
Some people want the PlayStation to be called PlayStation X because it sounds cooler, or it's a very elaborate trolling technique?
I just checked on my old OG PlayStation, and it says PlayStation, no PlayStation X or PSX to be seen anywhere.
Seriously hat does it matter what people call it? Why is /vr/ so stuck up about nomenclature for old video games? Same thing happens over people calling sidescrollers "beltscrollers" who the fuck cares
>>3256513
>>Not Giga Drive
They actually had that in development circa 1991 or 2. Nothing came out of it. They probably decided to focus on the Mega CD instead...
Around 93 they started naming all their systems from planets, Saturn was the only one that retained the name since they thought it sounded cool. They used up all the planets in the end, and a couple of moons, except for Uranus.
>>3256715
I heard about the Giga Drive, but I always assumed it was a working name for the Sega Saturn. The Mark VI is another working name for it too (which is fitting, since Saturn is the sixth planet on the Solar System).
>>3256265
Getting angry over the abbreviation PSX for the original PlayStation while citing the PS2 PSX machine is one of the best ways to reveal yourself as underage.
>>3256750
No it isn't
>>3256705
people found out it's an easy way to troll
>>3256671
I wouldn't trust my reading skills if you aren't able to read this thread.
I'm sorry your world was turned upside down, kids. Yes. Yes, it was called the PSX back then as a shorthand for "Playstation". In magazines, on game boxes, everywhere. Even in the OFFICIAL PLAYSTATION FUCKING MAGAZINE there are references to "PSX" in several places. Don't believe me? Go look up some searchable scans of the magazine and search for PSX.
Do it, kids.
And never fucking bring this retardation up ever again. It's over, you underage shits. If you would fucking ever LISTEN to people who were ACTUALLY ALIVE AND A FUCKING ADULT back then like I was, you'd learn more about your precious little videogames than any lie you read on the fucking internet.
yes but what does the X in PS-X stand for? xtreme? xylophone?
>>3256805
>Yes. Yes, it was called the PSX back then as a shorthand for "Playstation"
So PSX is Shorter than "PS"
Are you retarded?
>Go look up some searchable scans of the magazine and search for PSX.
Just did. No mention of this, liar.
>kid this, kid that, kid kid kid
fuck off faggot
>>3256808
its too bad denying something enough doesn't change history.
>>3256808
If you were of functioning age when the system came out you wouldn't need to look it up, you'd just remember that it was indeed shortened to PSX.
>>3256818
Nice proof you've provided. I'm sure you believe everyone here believes you. Nutjob.
>>3256806
Xperimental. Serious, it was supposed to be a prototype name but it stuck.
>>3256851
Nice proof you've provided. I'm sure you believe everyone here believes you ,Nutjob.
>>3256843
Nice proof you've provided. I'm sure you believe everyone here believes you Nutjob.
>>3256861
OK, here's another example, an official Activision development disc for the PlayStation game Blast Chamber.
>>3256891
its because search engines and other archival tools/data base programs hated 2 letter abbreviations.
>>3256257
Yes that is what they actually referred to the PS1
it's real name was the PSX
You're seriously retarded if you can't fathom that the Playstation was referred to as the PSX. Just download a PDF of an old gaming magazine and have your mind blown.
Confirmed.
>>3257027
>PSX 2
>>3256210
woah… If anything, this has only revealed how young this board is.
If people were to go back and read some gaming mags from the late 90's it's be easy to find the PSX branding.
I'm 26 and distinctly remember tons of references to PSX. Why get worked up about it?
>>3257131
No kidding. The retards on this board make me feel old.
>>3256851
jesus christ kid shut the fuck up it was all over the internet back in the day
>IGN 1998
![91sn32Q[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ZBYSfH4.jpg "91sn32Q[1].jpg")
>>3256805
If you dont call it PSX you're too young to be here
PSX confirmed.
>>3257361
Hurr I know how to edit html
>>3257367
you're wrong kiddo get over it
>>3257369
I think those who are legit triggered by the use of PSX and/or use "the PSX was actually a version of the PS2" as a way to show off their gaming knowledge have left and all that remains are people idly trolling.
>>3257378
yeah I will agree with that actually despite all the evidence they still hold their ground and accuse people of editing html while they make up fake interviews and shit. why the hell would you want to troll /vr/ though?
>>3257381
Because you're a bunch of elitist nerds who are too old for videogames.
I don't see what the big deal is. It's just the back of a PSX game.
>Play Station Ecks
>>3257393
>Elitist nerds
>Too old for...
... he thinks he's making a point isn't that cute?
>>3257393
agreed senpai
>>3257361
fake and gay
>>3257305
>WHOA DUDE I JUST LEARNED HOW TO PHOTOSHOP STUFF check it out!!!
>>3256297
It was referred to as PSX when it was out. I don't know why people are trying to act like it wasn't.
>>3256750
Remember when magazines would talk about the ps2 PSX and say how it was confusing because of the ps1 also being the PSX?
I think this should settle any debate.
>>3257625
Too young.
>>3256721
Mark VI is actually not fitting since the Saturn was a clean break from the previous systems, which all were evolutions and had backwards compatibility.
Unless you mean Mark VI for the 1992 Giga Drive. That could work.
/v/ is making fun of you guys
>>>/v/339481770
>>3257723
Oh no!
>>3257729
How does it feel to be a literal cuckold?
>>3257730
Ask your "father", fuckboi.
>>3257734
How about I ask your wifes sons dad bitch?
>>3257723
Why didn't you stay there?
>>3257747
Because they told me you guys were a bunch of lying revisionists faggots and I had to see for my self.
They were very correct!
>>3257767
Really no point in him leaving, this place has become retro-themed /v/ anyway.
>>3257723
/v/ is too young to even know, their first console was PS2 thats why they all have shit taste
>>3257772
>their first console was PS2
Pfft you wish. Remember, people born in 1998 are now old enough to browse /v/.
>their first console was PS3 or Xbox 360
There fixed that for you.
The late 90s was all about the generation X.
The X letter was pseudonym with "cool" and "hip".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG8VNIz3h0c
Nowadays kids probably see all that as tryhard, edgy and cringey, as it doesn't really relate to their post-modern/ironic culture.
Gen X was all about it being in your face, and gen Z is all about irony.
>>3256340
Die on my sword, ignorant white scum.
>>3256338
>There's a common misconception that only English language magazines used PSX
Nah, it was a thing in mainland Europe too.
PSX IS A HOAX
>>3257851
it's called "hoa", you retard
"hoax" is a multimedia player/console fusion from 2004 [1]
>>3257305
wew
>PlayStaXion
>>3257334
i remember some people used psx, some said ps, and the abbreviation even changed to ps1 when the ps2 came out. it doesn't matter if you called it psx
>>3257868
A for effort
Sony added the X to make the Playstation sound cool.
"Cool" was Sony's entire marketing strategy during the generation
>>3257881
DELETE THIS
Is it a problem that even the majority of playstation emulators even us the X in their branding?
>ePSXe
>PCSX
>pSX
>PSXeven
>SSSPSX
>>3258236
>emulators
Opinion discarded.
>>3258236
That's okay because emulators aren't official.
The retarded thing about this whole discussion, if you can call it that, is that there's 2 groups, the ones who say that the abbreviation is PSX and that everyone should call it that because magazines in the 90s called it PSX, and the trolls who bait the other group by saying that PSX was never a thing.
The truth is that, yes, "PSX" was a thing, magazines called it PSX back in the day. But no, it's not official and it's not a requirement that everyone calls the PS the "PSX".
>>3257634
based hideo kojima
>>3258245
/thread
>>3258241
>get btfo
Uhhhh emulators arent official
>>3258261
you didnt btfo out of anyone
>>3258261
Consider suicide.
>Oldfags
PSX
>Underage whose first console was PS2 and played PSX games on their PS2
PS1
>Hipsters who think it's cool for leaving out the X, and Europoors
PS
>Pseudo-intellectuals that think being verbose is smart
Playstation
>>3258261
>Uhhhh emulators arent official
There have been official emulators since the dawn of emulation.
>>3258286
>Corporation shills who have to use the official stylized spelling.
PlayStation
>>3258286
>>Hipsters who think it's cool for leaving out the X, and Europoors
We Europeans called it PSX for the entire 90s. Magazines only started calling it PS or PS1 once people wrote asking what the X stands for and they couldn't answer.
>>3258286
This is officially the worst /vr/ troll meme.
I remember setting up a dedicated channel on my little 9" TV back in 1996 and assigning it the name "PSX" because that's what they called it in magazines and shit that I had read. I was 7 years old.
It's a fucking PSX you autist faggots, get over it. This is literally like flipping out over calling the internet "the web" or something like that.
>>3258341
What does the X stand for?
>>3258341
stay absolutely ass-blasted you stupid faggot
>>3258357
Xtreme
>>3258341
>This is literally like flipping out over calling the internet "the web" or something like that.
I thought it was called the "information superhighway."
>>3256257
Autism can be controlled with fish oil.
Dear pedophiles and child molesters who need a man in their lives.
I present an archive of Wayback Machine's GameFAQs entry from the beginning of 1998.
http://wayback.archive.org/web/19980110160229/http://gamefaqs.com/
If you highlight "Sony Playstation" you will see that it is abbreviated to PSX.
http://wayback.archive.org/web/19980110160229/http://gamefaqs.com/sony/psx/
Wayback Machine is admissible in a court of law, thus you cannot counter the argument.
This cuntroversy is officially over.
>>3258385
>who need a man in their lives.
I don't need no man in my life you shitlord!
>>3258385
>Dear pedophiles
>>3258385
>Wayback Machine is admissible in a court of law, thus you cannot counter the argument
But gamefaqs isn't. It's completely user submitted, not official.
>>3256705
No. People call beat 'em ups "belt scrollers". I personally prefer the term strolling donnybrooks though.
>>3258430
>But gamefaqs isn't. It's completely user submitted, not official.
The systems are manually added by the staff. Which in 1998 would be still CJayC.
>>3258430
Nice goalposts change.
>>3256210
How do you pronounce that? Is it psssex, you know, like snez?
>>3258823
Piss-EX
>>3258823
Pee-Sucks
>>3258430
>>3259009
did you just draw that in MSpaint?
looks bad senpai
>>3259012
nope it's from a scan of tips & tricks magazine on archive.org
nov 97 issue if you wanna go look for it
This thread is literally autism. Holy fuck.
>>3259014
liar
>>3259016
welcome to /vr/ - Autism Containment
Which is the better model to buy, Playstation X or PSXONE?
>>3259057
The Ps1OneX
>>3259057
The PXlXaXyXsXtXaXtXiXoXnX
Is PSX pronounced like "PSeX"? Typical Sony always trying to piss on its fans.
>>3259119
It's prounounced 'play-stay-shun-ecks'.
Hey guys whats goin on in this thread
>>3259146
>>3257795
>implying gen y and gen z weren't also tryhard, edgy and cringy themselves, if not more so based on their awful entitlement issues
>>3259470
Every generation ain't got shit on baby boomers when it comes to entitlement.
>>3256259
>In 1996
>Before ps2 based 'psx' makes its obscure release
>Can I borrow your time machine anon.
Also get cancer.
>>3256750
Thank you anon, you speak the truth.
>>3259550
Pretty sure he's being sarcastic.
>>3256808
>shorter than ps
It doesn't matter what's shorter, it's WHAT WAS USED. Retarded modern gamer.
>no mention
I'm sorry, then you failed at basic internet 101. Let your mommy do it, she is probably better at the internet than you.
>kid
Because you are a kid, and proving it with every thing you say. I, on the other hand, am not.
>>3257318
>old man is right so i have to post stupid overused images to get back at him
Keep being mad, kids.
>>3259596
wow you sure showed that guy 24 hours later.
I bet he's been here the whole time just waiting for your sad attempt to btfo someone out!
>>3256373
That is hiedo miyamotor, inventor and producer of Super Tony Hawk Brothers
>>3256514
OPSM called it the PSX once on a while
>>3258341
>7 year old in 1996
How does it feel to have missed the golden age?
>>3256210
The important question is, are those Atari Collections for the PSX perfect arcade ports?
>>3259715
kek, even funnier is the fact that most of /vr/ was born in 96.
>but how they love pretending they were alive during the golden age of gaming.
>>3256274
Except we do call the SNES the s n e s. I ain't calling it sness. Sometimes called it super Nintendo but it was just easier to use It's acronym so I'm gonna use it.
>>3260540
>not just calling it the nintendo
Get woke lil nugga
>>3259596
I don't think I've ever seen a weaker attempt at come-backs on 4chan, and that's saying something.
>>3260547
>Calling it the Nintendo
>>3260806
>me on the right
>>3260582
>Nintendo is an adjective, not a noun.
No, being a proper name it's definitely a noun. This is why the Japanese shouldn't pretend to understand western languages.
>>3261067
Pretty sure that thing came from NoA. Which makes it even worse.
>>3260827
You're a beautiful flower anon
>>3261067
>a proper name is a noun
>a name used as an adjective is a noun
This is why the kids shouldn't pretend to understand their own languages.
>>3261937
>a proper noun is not a noun
>>3261937
Just so you know, your post is nearly gibberish.
>that one kid at school who called it the "PSX"
He was a faggot
The only people who bring up that stupid media player thing as the "true PSX" are little kids who weren't around at the time, googled "why does everyone call the PlayStation the PSX," found that and got even more confused.
Yeah that's totally what we're talking about, retards. That one completely failed piece of hardware sony made that literally nobody remembers.
>>3262079
This. When I was a kid everyone just called it the Playstation X.
>>3262112
Same. My friends and family all called it the XxXPlaystationXxX
It made it seem more 3L1T3
Of course, we were all hackers though, so were hip to the jive of the internet back then.
Saying all those x's sure took a while though
>>3262121
There's nothing 1337 about the letter X. Damn poser.
>>3262079
Pretty much. If you are seriously bothered by people calling it the PSX you were either unborn or extremely young during the heyday of the PlayStation. Bringing up the PSX-PS2 is right up there with "Did you know that SMB2 was originally a game for the Famicom Disk System called Doki Doki Panic?" in terms of make-you-seem-smart factoids that everyone on here already knows.
>>3262156
You mean Playstation X, not Playstation.
>>3262156
Yeah, except this has the added bonus of outing you as an underage moron.
>>3262165
Like claiming the NES is the best console ever, it's a dead giveaway that you get your opinions from e-celebs.
>>3262150
Tell that to kanjiklub...
>>3257634
>>3262187
I never had a deal with Kanjiklub
>>3262275
>Are you dyslexic or something?
>proper noun
>Word Origin
>noun
>1.
>Grammar. a noun that is used to denote a particular person, place, or thing, as Lincoln, Sarah, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Hall.
>Also called proper name.
Not as much as you.
>>3262963
>dictionary.com
This is why the kids shouldn't pretend to understand their own languages.
We're talking about facts of grammar here not what a dictionary website can cram into the space of a tweet.
>>3263316
>We're talking about facts of grammar
Yeah, and you just got btfo, Pedro.
>>3263357
>btfo
This is why the kids shouldn't pretend to understand their own languages.
Why am I reading this thread.
This is the stupidest shit ever.
>>3256210
DELETE THIS!!!!
I don't even understand the point of this discussion. Yes, it was called the PSX. You know it was called the PSX. I know it was called the PSX. Everyone knows it, and anyone who's saying otherwise is either intentionally trolling or clinically retarded. It's like denying that the SNES was called... the SNES.
>>3265535
>acknowledging the fact and not just wanting youngling newfags and oldbeard grognards rage
>not rampantly trolling when possible.
>>3265535
Why are you lying you stupid faggot.
It was never called the psx, ever.
