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MikeRox said:
phinch1 said:
RolStoppable said:
If you are old enough, you will remember that the first PlayStation was commonly abbreviated as "PSX" in video game magazines before it retro-actively became the PS1 after the PS2 announcement.and PSone introduction.


I've been playing games since they were on casset tapes lol, but seriously ive never know it called the PSX maybe the name never made it here to the UK


I'm in the UK too. PSX was the term for PlayStation here. Most 3rd party accessories put PSX On the packaging too. Its the correct abbreviation for the original larger system.


No it is not, its a name given to it unofficially ...it was at "once" a code name for it by developers that is all.....find me an offcial sony document where it was called the PSX...........



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PearlJam said:
I'll put it to you this way. The PSX you are talking about is irrelevant and nobody even knows what it is, except for like 17 people and most of them are in this thread.

If you are an old timer (I started with NES when it was in its' prime) you will recall that (at least in the U.S.) all magazines (the only real media at the time for this hobby) referred to the original PlayStation as the PSX. It was the code name, what people called it before and after it was announced.

It sort of stuck, because PlayStation always sounded dorky and was too long to type. I will always remember it as the PSX, and so will tons of people that actually got to experience the greatness of that system as it was happening. The PS1 or PSOne is that small redesign that Sony released later on.

When I see people type PS1 instead of PSX, I think "young whipper snapper". Almost like you're looking back at the thing because you hopped on with the PS2, or god forbid the PS3.

Why is it irrelevant....It actually exists and you can't just dismiss it The PSX we are talking about is THE actual PSX console whos name was given to it by THE Creators of Playstation.....There is no deneying fact

Playstation
Playstation 2
PSX             
PSP
PS3

Officially its just the Playstation, some code name that stuck is irrelevant



phinch1 said:

Why is it irrelevant....It actually exists and you can't just dismiss it The PSX we are talking about is THE actual PSX console whos name was given to it by THE Creators of Playstation.....There is no deneying fact

Playstation
Playstation 2
PSX             
PSP
PS3

Officially its just the Playstation, some code name that stuck is irrelevant

We got it, it's the unofficial name, and some random product released only in japan officially has the name PSX that is not the 1st playstation.

We'll still continue to use PSX thankyouverymuch.



happydolphin said:
phinch1 said:

Why is it irrelevant....It actually exists and you can't just dismiss it The PSX we are talking about is THE actual PSX console whos name was given to it by THE Creators of Playstation.....There is no deneying fact

Playstation
Playstation 2
PSX             
PSP
PS3

Officially its just the Playstation, some code name that stuck is irrelevant

We got it, it's the unofficial name, and some random product released only in japan officially has the name PSX that is not the 1st playstation.

We'll still continue to use PSX thankyouverymuch.


ok.... but earlier you were talking about other people being in denial?



phinch1 said:

ok.... but earlier you were talking about other people being in denial?

It's not denial this time, I accepted your points. I just don't care about them. With Mazty he rejected my points and didn't include them in his "math", that's different.

Your points are there, but my value system require not a name to be official for me to use it, that's why it's called an unofficial name. That's common sense though.



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happydolphin said:
phinch1 said:

ok.... but earlier you were talking about other people being in denial?

It's not denial this time, I accepted your points. I just don't care about them. With Mazty he rejected my points and didn't include them in his "math", that's different.

Your points are there, but my value system require not a name to be official for me to use it, that's why it's called an unofficial name. That's common sense though.


ok fair enough, lets just agree to dissagree, Hey if the world all agree'd on everything it would be a pretty boring place right?



phinch1 said:

ok fair enough, lets just agree to dissagree, Hey if the world all agree'd on everything it would be a pretty boring place right?

It sure would :) I accept!



phinch1 said:

Why do people call the Origional playstation the PSX......Type psx into google and see what comes up, It an actual console that was made inbetween the PS2 and PS3, it has the cross media bar to similar to the PS3, it was also sony's first console to have the cross media bar

 

it was released in Japan (and only in japan) in 2003 just before Christmas, its plays Playstation and Playstation 2 titles It has internal storage with  160GB HDD and a higher model with 250GB with memory stick reader (like the origional PS3 60GB) updatable firmware (like psp ps3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vofHwP9J9Rw

So yeah, call it the Playstation, PS, PS1 PSOne........ but stop calling it the PSX Please

 

We call it that because that was the abreviation used for the Original Playstation when it was out.  That is what Stop-N-Save Software used (a prelude to EB Games which is now Gamestop), that is what BestBuy and ToysRUs Used and so that is what I use.  Us old fucks get to call it PSX because we read about PSX in game magazines in the horrible, terrible, awful age before the internet (and that isn't sarcasm, even though I was 12 when we got the internet I really can't remember what it was like beforehand, I have retconned most of my memories to be internet inclusive.)

Boom, PSX baby. 



phinch1 said:
happydolphin said:
phinch1 said:

Why is it irrelevant....It actually exists and you can't just dismiss it The PSX we are talking about is THE actual PSX console whos name was given to it by THE Creators of Playstation.....There is no deneying fact

Playstation
Playstation 2
PSX             
PSP
PS3

Officially its just the Playstation, some code name that stuck is irrelevant

We got it, it's the unofficial name, and some random product released only in japan officially has the name PSX that is not the 1st playstation.

We'll still continue to use PSX thankyouverymuch.


ok.... but earlier you were talking about other people being in denial?

Well played. Well played indeed.



Mazty said:

Well played. Well played indeed.

You were late with PSX, and you're late with this :P I already responded to that.