Stop calling the Origional playstation....PSX

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Mazty said:

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.

In this very thread you already have the covers of magazines from Croatia and Poland that include PSX in the name. How can you still claim that it wasn't particularly used outside of USA? It was used all over the world. That's the only term that I've ever known for the first Playstation console. People still use it, because they have always used it to describe this console. The fact that some term becomes a part of the language and is commonly used in a given meaning makes it valid, no matter if its origin is "official" or not. The lack of a Sony stamp isn't more important than the fact that for millions of people around the globe Playstation = PSX.