By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Mazty on 12 February 2013
Edit Thread
happydolphin said:
Mazty said:

A commonly misheld abbreviation for it. It officially was never abbreviated to PSX - that was a term for the devs. Plus you have to consider if PSX was an official term for it, then why did they name a later console the PSX?

Magazines are not inherently true. Some people derped hard and kept on using the dev term for it once it had been released to the consumer. In other words, parts of the media misled the public.

So basically your argument is that if it's not official, don't use it.

Well, that's just dumb, sorry. It's an unofficial name, just like Kaz is an unofficial name for Kazuo Hirai. Should we stop using that too?

Good God.

We get it, it's unofficial. Is that it? Cause we knew that since page 2 and well before that.

We don't call the 360 the Xenon, so why call the Playstation the PSX? More so when the PSX is an entirely different console it only makes sense to use a smarter abbreviation instead of potentially causing confusion between the two. This is further highlighted as the term "PSX" wasn't particuarly used outside of the USA to refer to the Playstation - the term never appeared in the Official Playstation Magazine.