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Ganoncrotch said:
Aeolus451 said:

I thought of it as playstation until PS2 came out then I started to think of it as PS1.

In Europe at least it was always called the Playstation, the first time numbers came into it was with the PSone and PS2 on the horizon but the original system was always just referred to as Playstation, where does the X even come from in this abbreviation?

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Righto after some reading about the X comes from Playstation Experiment a pre release name given to the system and used by some magazines after the consoles launch... Jesus I'm glad gaming magazines are for the most part dead, or we'd still have people talking about the NX and Xenon today as their favourite consoles of all times....

I don't really remember where the x came from but it does makes sense that it came from magazines. They were just a big marketing tool that were run by non-gamers for the most part. It's still that way.