Which is the most significant (important) console in history?

[Ganoncrotch]

Aeolus451 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

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. 

Yeah I checked it out, the codename for the system was Playstation eXperiment and some pre launch promo stuff had it marketed as PSX alright, I guess by the time it got to Europe it was already out and had the correct name so we didn't have the confusion with the name here, like I said it was Sony Playstation or just Playstation. (in my tiny pocket of the world at least :) )