I'll just leave this here. ;) i.imgur.com/gmjmFYV.jpg

@Sonicfoxtrot

5 жыл бұрын

I always have that image handy for those special boys who think they're clever that they know that the ps2 psx

@Myafue

5 жыл бұрын

Well, it's stupid to deny that people, developers and media sources were overusing the codename, that's how it stuck in the first place. However, it's only a codename, in fact, not a name of the final product. And in 2000's we got a product, that was officially released under PSX name. So, people can use their nostalgic codename, but let's not pretend it is correct.

@rars0n

5 жыл бұрын

@@Myafue It absolutely IS correct in the sense that the letters "PSX" were used widely for years to refer to the original Playstation hardware, and that the PS2-based PSX machine sold in very small numbers and in Japan only and is therefore largely irrelevant. I love this revisionist history where because a machine that nobody bought had the letters stamped on it over half a decade of people using "PSX" as an abbreviation is somehow invalidated.

@Myafue

5 жыл бұрын

Adam Baldwin well, here's the problem, the widespread and long-term use of a name, that is incorrect, doesn't make it correct. The level of obscurity of a certain product is irrelevant to the fact of its official existence, it's there and you can't deny it.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

@@Myafue Somehow I missed this reply when you originally posted it. I'm not denying the existence of the PSX. I'm simply saying that it's mostly an irrelevant piece of gaming history, and for that reason the term "PSX" is most commonly used to refer to the Playstation, not the PS2-based device. People are not "wrong" for calling the Playstation the PSX, as this was common language well before the PS2 device ever existed. You can try to claim what is "correct" or not, but the fact of the matter is that the term "PSX" exists in the lexicon of an entire generation of gamers as an abbreviation for "Playstation," specifically referring to the original console. Nothing is going to change that. Language is as descriptive as it is prescriptive. People who continue to point out that the PS2-based PSX exists are wasting their time and saying nothing new. We all know about that box. We don't care. We had the term "PSX" long before that, and we're going to keep using it.

Thank you for clearing this up. I knew I was calling it a PSX way before the actual PSX release.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

You solved the mystery of X. And it was excellent. Great video.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks bud.

Another great video Jenovi, very well put together.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks G-Man. Always happy to see you stop by.

Wow! This bad boy took a lot of research and a LOT of editing and time. I knew some, but certainly not all of this. Thanks for another great video man!!

This was way more interesting than I thought it would be. Good job sir.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate that.

One of the biggest OUCH in videogame's history. PSX was a titan that shook the world.

@madkhaliqfarhan

Жыл бұрын

And now, the PSX has since evolved into PS5!

@BagOfMagicFood

5 ай бұрын

​@@madkhaliqfarhan What if they use a Roman numeral for the tenth iteration of it?

I'm glad that you made a link between msx computers and the playstation. If it hadn't been for their experience with personal computers, they would have never entered into the videogame market.

@christiandacanay3086

Жыл бұрын

That makes Sega of Japan's rejection of Sony working with them really ironic. Because Sony was also one of the companies making MSX PCs.

@paxhumana2015

6 күн бұрын

Ironically, the MSX platform was actually, as well as technically, gasp, Microsoft's first entry into the video game market. Also, it was the only era in which gaming from an American company did decently in Japan, even though they were ironically unobtanium in the USA at the time.

@dougr.8653

6 күн бұрын

@@paxhumana2015The American market offered many options to the regular user. My family had an Apple ][. We only changed computers when we saw Wolfenstein 3D in a shop window. 🤣

I guess we could call this whole thing a "naming inconvention" since designations were all over the place across many mediums. I personally never used the term PSX to refer to the machine, even if it is technically correct; it still strikes me as silly. Probably not more than Sony releasing a compact version of the hardware later and calling it PSOne, though.

@Jenovi

3 жыл бұрын

I could certainly see it as a regional situation too. For the area where I lived, PSX was common place or Playstation. The that mini launched, PSOne was reserved 100% for that. When the PS2 launched, PSX was the original, PSone was the slim, and PS2 was the PS2. Later we called it PS2 Fat and the revised version was PS2 slim.

I LOVE THE TUNE in the background!!!

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@hungrydonkey4333

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jenovi what’s the tune used at 3:10?

@marco_rigoni_

2 ай бұрын

@@hungrydonkey4333 found it: Wild Arms - Marsh Where the Migrant Birds Gather

I distinctly remember a commercial for Media Play stores where they zoom in on a kid playing the PlayStation and he says "PSX." When the PS2 PSX came out, I was very confused.

Great video!

Excellent vid ! Lots of great info.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Great video. You got a new subscriber!

PSX is a very confusing name, fortunately I never used that initials, I always named it as the PS, yeah, without the X. Thanks for this analysis, you helped me understanding what meant that "X".

cool vid. i watched this after the MK2 breakdown vid. subscribed.

@jtee06

5 жыл бұрын

same! quality content on this channel

that just reminds me that Sony has the PSTV and also a TV with a PS2 on it.

I always thought of the X in PSX as eXtension which still makes the most sense to me given what it was originally supposed to be.

*Great Documentary* 👍👏

In case anyone's wondering what song plays at 3:07, it's 'Marsh Where the Migrant Birds Gather' from 'Wild Arms'

I was around for the later Playstation years (before PS2) and it's interesting, I don't ever remember hearing PSX. I only ever remember it being referred to as the Playstation. Maybe it's because I didn't have Internet access at the time, nor had much access to gaming magazines. I doubt that PSX was ever used in official Sony documentation, such as the Playstation manual, or in their own marketing, at least not after the early years. For me, PS1 always referred to the redesign released in 2000. During the PS2 era I used to call the original design the 'first Playstation' or the 'original Playstation'. It wasn't until after the PS3 came out that I started to refer to it also as the PS1, and have done so ever since. If there is an official acronym, it's PS. It was used in the logo since the beginning, and was later used by Sony to refer to Playstation games on the PS3 and PSN. However, PSX was undeniably in widespread use by magazines, publishers and many gamers at the time. There's certainly nothing wrong with using PSX to refer to it. I wouldn't consider it 'wrong' or invalid, it's a perfectly acceptable acronym. The only situation that something else should be used is in a discussion relating to both the Playstation and the PSX DVR (such as playing Playstation games on the PSX DVR), as using PSX for both would be confusing!

@Jenovi

4 жыл бұрын

Certainly the later in the systems life you came into possession of one, the less likely you were to hear it.

@UltimateGattai

3 жыл бұрын

Back in the day I only ever heard of it as the Playstation or PS1, never heard about the PSX until my teenage years when internet was more accessible to me, it doesn't really matter now because people will use PS1/PSX interchangeably (it was worse when the PS2 "PSX" became a thing). I'm pretty sure any magazines I saw in my childhood referred to it only as the PS, but then again, I live in Australia, so maybe PSX didn't catch on and we just called it PS.

I find it interesting that the PSX code name seemed to be picked as a reference to the MSX standard, developed with Microsoft’s backing; and now all these years later, Microsoft is Sony’s direct rival in the gaming space, seeing as Nintendo have focused on innovation and changing paradigms of what gaming is, rather than the other two’s mantra of “moar powah”.

I am one of the now minority people who refer to the original Playstation as the PSX, and I often get flack for it. People love to pretend to know otherwise, but in reality, long after launch gaming magazines were still often referring to the original Playstation as the PSX. Then, like you said, when the PSone came out, to many gamers that was considered the "PS1." Hence PSX became a convenient way to differentiate it from the PSone. But it seems that over time, either people have largely forgotten about the PSX moniker or have gotten used to referring to the whole generation of hardware as PS1. It really annoys me when I mention "PSX" and someone tells me "The PSX is an entirely different piece of hardware" as if I didn't already know that. Anyone who calls the original Playstation "PSX" is well aware of the PS2-based DVR machine. It's not an obscure fact of gaming history, it's a machine that sold in very few numbers in Japan. The PSX name was used first, widely, for years, even if unofficially, on the original Playstation hardware. I don't understand the pedantry that is going on over the letters PSX. Literally no one uses it to mean the PS2-based DVR machine except to obnoxiously point out how "wrong" it is to call the original Playstation a PSX. We're all aware of the machines, we're aware of what we're talking about, and we're going to continue to call it the PSX because that's what we called it since forever.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Great write up. Fully agree with what you've said. My buddy Rob from Retro Game Living Room put this together. i.imgur.com/gmjmFYV.jpg

@thanksbetotap

4 жыл бұрын

That was the most perfect summary ever. Well done.

@BagOfMagicFood

5 ай бұрын

Okay but what about people who refer to the Nintendo Game Boy as "DMG"?

@rars0n

5 ай бұрын

@@BagOfMagicFood What about them?

As I saw this very good and informative Video i thought: Why doesn't this dude have more subs or Views?

@Jenovi

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not disappoint with the subs I have. I feel rather blessed. It's rather hard when not posting more often to get KZread to recommend one's content. It's a losing battle for those who don't post at least once a week.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jenovi I don't know why KZread randomly recommended you to me one day, but I am so glad it did. I dug into your channel and found lots of great stuff, and I always enjoy new uploads. I guess I just got KZread lucky. It happens sometimes. I wish it would happen more often.

Most people bitchin about the PSX use, have probably never even seen the actual japanese PSX outside of the computer screen in web browser. Thing is, many of the electronics have gotten nicknames during their lifetime, and later reused for many years onwards. I cant really seem to find anything bad in this. It just shows how cult the system becomes eventually

Good video, I learned a few new facts. I think that the PSX acronym (if it can be called that) was more widely used in British press which is why it tend to annoy Americans more, but I might be wrong about that.

@streetmagik3105

5 жыл бұрын

Time for a new fact. PSX is not an acronym, it's an initialism. The initials have to spell a word to be an acronym. Things like USA, KFC, etc. aren't pronounced as words, therefore initialisms.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

As far as I can tell, people claiming the X stood for eXperimental were just trying to be clever and it never came from Sony.

@amerigocosta7452

5 жыл бұрын

I think the X stands for nothing and the reason why Western marketing pushed it was because it just sounded cool and radical for 90's kids (we are, in facts, the Generation X!).

is that wild arms music that i hear!

This will always be the original PSX to me. It was used everywhere. Even buying the games. They had the PSX section.

I seem to recall seeing the PSX name often during its lifetime because it looked better in print than PS? I seem to recall there was a black dev unit that also had the name PSX

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, most of the dev units and some debugging units used this as well.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

You're thinking of the Net Yaroze. It wasn't called PSX. But yeah, PSX was everywhere back then.

@clarkyk85

4 жыл бұрын

I seem to recall there was the Japanese PSX that was a PS2 with a DVR too wasn't there?

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

@@clarkyk85 OMG this was covered in the video. Did you pay no attention?

@clarkyk85

4 жыл бұрын

@@rars0n I did.... Like 10 months ago. Sorry

I tend to call it the original Playstation, just as I call Xbox "original Xbox"... but still do Ebay searches for obscure Playstation controllers and games with the PSX initials from time to time.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

You're speaking as a person who played it after the fact. During its time it was referred to as the PSX. Nobody playing the first Playstation when it was brand new would ever call it "the original Playstation."

The original one is called the PSX by everybody, years later Sony released a slim version of the PSX which they called the PSone. Like in later years Sony just put Slim behind the name, maybe realising the stupidity with the first PSX.

This video is great!! I always thought snes cd was a rumor.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you found some value in watching this one.

@pappagetti

4 жыл бұрын

It would've been sweet. Just imagine what they would've done with it.

I hope you didn’t lose too much cred for having my face in this one. Lol Also I’ve never heard of the psx dvr, that’s pretty dope.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, the PS2-X has an insanely high failure rate. Something common for first gen tech. FYI I think youtube knows you're in this one because they refuse to promote​ it.

@space_asylum

5 жыл бұрын

You just got the SAGIS! .....There is no cure.....

thank you

@Jenovi

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

It's called the PlayStation and the revision is PS One. It's called PS One to not be confused with PlayStation 2 that released in the same year. The PSX was only released in Japan. PS-X was a working name just like Revolution was to the Wii but nobody goes around calling it the Revolution.

Well, if you think that this is confusing, as well as bad, enough, then I must disclose that there is a rare Japanese version of the PS2 that is ALSO called the PSX as well.

I thought it has something to do with 32 bits at the time.

the launch system should be called just PS, since PSX is the code name for the prototypes. i have also heard that it means PlayStation eXperimental during its prototype stages

I think it sounds badass anyway so feel the X-tasy.

Just started reading and hearing ppl us psx all of a sudden. So why after all these years do ppl all of a sudden deal away with the standard ps 1 playstation

@youbastrds231

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I remember a long time ago a friend calling it a psx but nothing after that. Psx was just the code name for the PlayStation. A real psx was released in 03 and it was a dvr ps2 combo that never left japan

what's the song at the :46 mark?

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

It's from Snatcher (Sega CD).

After watching his video twice. The only things I can concur with, is that the original codename for the pre-launch system was indeed PSX and that the PS2 + DVR was launched as the PSX. Even on Wikipedia the only mention of the name PSX on the whole page is for the DVR model. But getting past the conjecture of this discussion, I ask only one question what is Ken Kutaragi known as the father of A: The playstation or B: The PSX. So to me, calling it PSX is like "All your base are belong to us" lost in translation. Anyway I'm off to play SEGA GT on my Katana. Te He...

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

That's a really dumb take on it, considering that the code name for the console was PS-X and it was widely reported on as such, never mind used in the lexicon of an entire generation of gamers who called it the PSX.

@thepumpkingking8339

4 жыл бұрын

@@rars0n So do you refer to the GameCube as the Dolphin or the Dreamcast as the Katana.. etc Then why the PS1

I will always refer to the original PlayStation as the PSX, the 2000 redesign as the PSOne (also PSX by extension), and the "PSX" in Japan from 2004 as the "PS2 DVR". No one will ever change my mind.

8:44 PSX name explained

I don’t think a single person in Australia ever called it PSX. It was PlayStation, then when the ps2 came out it became PS1

@siloPIRATE

3 жыл бұрын

Same with England/UK (unless they did up until January 1 2000). It was just PlayStation or PS1. Nobody called it PSX

The PSone was often referred to as PSX back in the days.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

No it wasn't. You completely missed the point of the video. The PSX was the original version of the Playstation. The PSone was the equivalent of a Playstation Slim, a reduced-cost and down-sized version of the original Playstation hardware. The PSX was so ingrained to the original Playstation design that people often used it to differentiate between it and the PSone. That is, "PSX" was SPECIFICALLY NOT referring to the PSone. It's the exact opposite of what you are claiming.

28 years later, PSX has since evolved into PS5 and this means, Sony has truly become the living legend of the video game business, especially since the name "PlayStation" itself is directly inspired by the term "workstation"! Once I start working soon, I'll buy a PS5 because it has almost everything, from games to streaming services!

I think Nintendo made the right decision. If they had went thru with the deal, it would have killed them outright. Things were pretty dire with the N64 as is, now imagine the Playstation was backward compatible to the Super Nintendo. I don't know why Nintendo negotiated that deal in the first place.

@Jenovi

3 жыл бұрын

I think this is the reason they didn’t enter the disc market until Mini DVD was a thing. Pure speculation on my part though. Also, I agree with you.

We just always called it Playstation. It didn't have a number because PS2 hadn't been invented yet.

People that call the PSOne or PS the PSX are old schoolers! Mainly people in the modding scene from back in the day.

@Jenovi

4 жыл бұрын

For sure.

PSX is just like GCN, no one says Gamecube Nintendo so it should be NGC or just GC.

@symphomaniac

5 жыл бұрын

Slim Thug called it GameCube Nintendo in the song "Fo fo's". I think he just wanted to rhyme though

I had just assumed ppl added the x later to separate it from the psone. But whatayaknow?

Gaming rags called the original PS the "PSX" back in the day; my browser's autocomplete may give the latter the red squiggly-underline of shame, but Google can't erase lived experiences. At least, not yet.

@Jenovi

Жыл бұрын

🤣

We know the meaning behind the PSX. It was called the PlayStation Xtreme and was marketed that way. I first heard it called that with the very first edition of PlayStation Underground. The name PSX existed long before the cross bar media platform found in the PSP then PS3.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

That's completely made up by the magazine you were reading. Did you even watch the video? Because Jenovi never claimed it to be part of the cross bar media platform menu thing (that makes no sense).

@Sinn0100

4 жыл бұрын

@@rars0n No it was not completely made up by the magazine I was reading. The name PSX comes from the original developer kits before the PlayStation hit the market (Playstation X).

@Sinn0100

4 жыл бұрын

@@rars0n One more thing...his exact words- "I think it's safe to say that the X stands for the cross media bar." Thanks for playing.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sinn0100 You misunderstood. I was talking about "Playstation Xtreme." I'm well aware that PSX was widely used. Again, did you watch the video? "his exact words- "I think it's safe to say that the X stands for the cross media bar." Thanks for playing." Okay, so you watched it but didn't retain any knowledge from it whatsoever. Good job. He was talking about the PS2-based PSX. Not the original Playstation, which he had already linked to the MSX. Goddamn, you really missed the point!

@Sinn0100

4 жыл бұрын

@@rars0n Yeah...a year ago. Further, the video talked about the use of the letter X on other platforms. He then discusses the original PlayStation and its link to the X moniker. Regardless he did not come up with anything definitive. The PSX moniker is nothing more than branding from the original PlayStation. Companies do this all the time especially when said branding is attached to a successful product. Everything you have said to me is completely nonsensical. You act as if you get something from literally nothing. First you tell me that what I read was made up from some magazine (it wasn't)! Then you say, he did not associate the crossbar with the X moniker and I proved you wrong. So yeah...tell me more about this great understanding of yours.

At 1:46 you are talking about the MSX. That is a PC-98 pictured and not an MSX.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

That was very much intentional as it was one of many popular home computer standards. The MSX was designed to end that, and honestly it did a fair job.

@infinitecanadian

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jenovi Yeah, but you were saying at the time that the MSX was intended to equal something else, and it had the PC-98 there.

10/10

I still have tons of magazines calling the PlayStation psx, later with the launch of the actual psx everyone got confused but us the old school gamers don’t😂

Original PlayStation is PSX. The 2001 Model of PlayStation is called PSOne.

@gustavojoserodriguez7475

4 жыл бұрын

@Sat's World ..... PSone model came out july 7,2000. I still got mines. I know what I'm talking about.

@gustavojoserodriguez7475

4 жыл бұрын

@Sat's World ..... The PlayStation also had a redesigned version, the PSone, which was launched on July 7, 2000.

That's awesome. You should be a certified Alpha :)

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

If you grew up with it, it's a psx. We always said psx as a short way of saying playstation. This was before the psONE was released. Later on after the launch of the ps2, it became ps1. But I've always thought of it as psx. A ps1 is the psONE to me.

@Jenovi

4 жыл бұрын

You and me both.

"Why's it called the PSX?" It's not. It's the PlayStation.

Positive

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

i will never stop calling it PS1.

Hey Jenovi, why are you an American and say "Jag-U-Ar" for the Atari Jaguar and "Zed" instead of "Zee" for the ZX-Spectrum?

The conclusion is actually that the PSX has nothing to do with the PlayStation except for being a prototype/code name since it wasn't released as PSX or PS-X or PlayStation X. PS One is a much better shorter name for the original PlayStation since it's the official shortened name for the console. Yea the PS One had a visual redesign but that has nothing to do with it because it's made to indicate that it is the original PlayStation and not the PS2 Playstation 2. The PS One console played PlayStation games, so it's not a separate system but only a shortened rebranded name to separate it from the PS2. You don't call PS2 games PSX2 games or PS5 games PSX5 games. Calling PlayStation games PSX games is the same as if you would call Xbox Series X console Project Scarlett. I'm repeating it for the third time but the PS One name wasn't created to name the slim version of PlayStation console but to stylize and shorten the PlayStation console name to PS One because of the PlayStation 2 was also shortened to PS2 already at launch and to separate the two, so customers would know to call the PlayStation a PS One and the PlayStation 2 a PS2. So it should be called PlayStation or if shortened, PS One.

Biggest irony is that Nintendo would never release a CD-based console.

@ViciousAlienKlown

4 жыл бұрын

Gamecube, Wii and Wii U.

It's all fun and games until The PlayStation 10 comes out and they call it The PSX 👌

You have the prototype of the Nintendo PlayStation?!?

@Jenovi

3 жыл бұрын

Nah. They only made 300 or so. Only one is known to be in the wild.

So because some marketing people 30 years ago said it a few times - you still use it in 2020, when it's been officially used by Sony for a completely different system? How much sense does that make?

I thought the X represented 'Not' as in , Not the nintendo play station, as a jab at nintendo.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting take.

They named it ps2x because it looked similar to the prototype PS

For me is always PSX. In 1995 here in Brazil everybody(early adoption) call PSX. But the new owned the PS1 in the 98 dont call anymore the PSX

🎮🤘🤓🤘💿

My dude the Saturn sold around 8 or 9 million with 5 million in Japan and 1.9 million in USA.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

100% I’m wrong in this statement and and another post further down. I’ll leave it here to curb confusion. It's actually closer to 17 million. Not sure where 8-9 million comes from as it's incorrect. Here are some sources I used for this figure. Appreciate the comment and I hope this helps. "Sony Sets Up New Games Companies," Music & Copyright, 1 Feb 1995, "PlayStation Game Console Sells More Than One Million Units in Novem-ber," Business Wire, 8 Dec 1997; "Video Game War Heats Up Sony Re-enters Fray with Playstation 2," The New Orleans Times-Picayune, 19 Feb 2000; "Worldwide Videogame Forecast and Analysis, 2001-2006" (IDC report no. 26906), 2002, table 4; Installed Base "Video Game Consoles: Sony, Nintendo and Sega Brace for Microsoft Challenge," In-Stat, Dec 2000, table 2.

@GamingDelight

4 жыл бұрын

​@@Jenovi Nope. A lot of reliable sources state 9.2 million. It fared poorly because of its botched launch in North America. Those sources must've made an error or just random guesses. The official number wasn't even close to 17 million. Reliable sources: Games' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Players, Pawns, and Power-ups by Ben H. Rome. www.gameinformer.com/index.php/b/features/archive/2017/07/03/gi-classic-the-saturn-spiral.aspx www.videogameschronicle.com/features/consoles-that-failed/ And there are others, but I think these are enough.

@Jenovi

4 жыл бұрын

You’re 100% correct, I flubbed this. I ended up running down the numbers and the original source of the 17 million and why it’s wrong when I did my Why did Sega Fail video. I believe I even discuss the issue there. 100% wrong info from me in this video regulating those numbers. Great call out.

@GamingDelight

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jenovi Happy to help.

@aceofhearts573

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jenovi no worries. I remember when the PS1 sold around 50 million and wondering why the Saturn sales never got announced. Sad to remember most genesis owners went with Sony instead of the Saturn. I know some time ago I read the Saturn sales in the US had been around 1.8 million or a little more than that, a crazy number that is hard to believe .

The Gameboy's CPU is not a Z80. It's a cross between the 8080 and Z80, but has many instructions removed, and some added. But it's not a true Z80, nor is it a true 8080.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

I almost didn't include it for this very reason, but it's based off the tech and fits the point I was trying to make. Appreciate the post of clarification​ for anyone who might be wondering.

PSX, ha even back then Sony try to copy the name initial from Microsoft a.k.a. the MSX. In 2013 Microsoft return the favor by naming their console the Xbox One just like Sony's PS One, unlike Sony though Microsoft's console is a successor and not a redesign.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting take.

+

Basically, Nintendo's greed created their biggest competitor. I miss Sega.

So is called PlayStation Xstream

Funny, now SCE is the only profitable arm of Sony.

@Jenovi

3 жыл бұрын

It's been a money make for Sony.

PS-X PlayStation eXperimental

Just about everyone down here just calls it the PS1 man, especially after the PS2 and PS3 came out. Doesn't matter if it's the grey original or the slim, it's still a PS1 🤣 Great video though, surprised I'm just now seeing it.

@Jenovi

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I always have called the PlayStation PSX or PlayStation and only used PS1 for that mini PS1 console. Thinking about this kind of pisses me off because I was using Xbox One for the original Xbox then Microsoft done gone and screwed it all up. Not at all related, but yeah.

@BigBoss-cg6tq

4 жыл бұрын

Yes if you fast forward to the future which is now because there's a ps2, ps3, and ps4 already out. But before ps2 came out, it was never referred to as a ps1 because why would you when it was the only one? It's like how we call the original xbox the "og xbox" but back when only the original xbox was out, no one would add an "og" moniker for obvious reason. (and jenovi is right about how dumb they named the newest console xbox1 negating the use of xbox 1 as reference to the original just like how the ps1 is now being used which would make the most sense in terms of canonical numbering system). Tl;dr You can call it the Ps1 or PSX. Both are right. I think the purpose of the video is to simultaneously shut up and to show how dumb all those "hurr durr it's ps1 NOT Psx" kids are.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

There are a ton of differences between the PSX and the PSone. One of the many reasons why we differentiated them. Much like the PS2 fat and the PS2 Slim. The PS2 Slim has no hard drive bay. There are good reasons to differentiate these console variations. I never refer to the PSone as the PSX. They're two different things.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

@@BigBoss-cg6tq The only reason we really have to differentiate between the Xbox generations is because Microsoft's naming scheme is stupid and nonsensical. Otherwise it would just be "Xbox, Xbox 2, and Xbox 3." You say "Xbox 1" and my reaction is "which one are you talking about?"

$299.99? Not bad.

Sony's own self glorifying autobiography "Revolutionaries at Sony" by Reiji Asakura only mentions "PS/X" once in the whole book, that is in reference to the internal code name for the SNES CD-ROM as the inspiration for the name PlayStation. The term is never used again, PlayStation is the name of the original console. PSone is the slim unit and PS1 is a simple identifier after the PS2 was released. PSX is nothing but a catchy logo magazines caught on to during the pre-release hype phase and they never let it go after Sony revealed the actual brand. You had might as well be calling the Saturn the 'Gigadrive' or the N64 the Ultra 64, all three would be just as incorrect as using the term PSX for the original PlayStation. Also, there is no reason to use "PSX" when speaking of the system, the abbreviation only works potentially in writing. It is the same number of syllables to say PlayStation as P-S-X. Using the system's actual name is much less confusing or cumbersome.

The people piping up saying it’s the “PS1 not PSX” are just too young to know better. We knew there would be a sequel to the console because Sega and Nintendo had already made sequels. I remember calling it PSX since day one in the magazines before it released stateside and PS1 before the PSOne remodel.

I always called my PSX "PSOne" until i realized that i never owned a PSOne.

@Jenovi

3 жыл бұрын

I never have either. Was always temped though due to the portable system setup you could buy for it.

You know sony... They have weird fetish on naming products.... Just like their phone, they have 2011 xperia pro when still with Ericsson and reuse this name on 2020 product.

I don’t like Sony Interactive Entertainment I like Sony Computer Entertainment

So when you say PSX, do you mean PSX or actually PSX? I'll just assume that by "PSX", you mean "PSX", not "PSX", which would be more confusing than using "PSX" for "PSX" and not "PSX"

Yeah so long story short the final released product was called the ‘Playstation’, not ‘PSX’.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

And your point is? Everyone referred to it as the PSX back then.

@TechGamesAU

4 жыл бұрын

Adam Baldwin my point is it’s called the PlayStation.

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

@@TechGamesAU Okay. But everyone else called it PSX for shorthand. Just so you know.

@TechGamesAU

4 жыл бұрын

Adam Baldwin but there’s another device that was actually called the PSX

@rars0n

4 жыл бұрын

@@TechGamesAU No shit. Everyone knows this. That device saw really low sales in Japan only. Hence the reason why people almost exclusively use "PSX" to talk about the original Playstation, because that's what it was called for years before the PS2-based machine ever existed. You're not telling anyone anything new. You're just being annoying and pedantic. And maybe showing the fact that you weren't alive when the PSX was around.

Because some people are wrong. It was launched as the Playstation. Do you also still call the Nintendo 64 the Ultra 64?

@Jenovi

4 жыл бұрын

i.imgur.com/gmjmFYV.jpg

YOU FORGOT THE SEGA DEAL

@Jenovi

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure what deal we are talking about..?

@oscarperez9783

3 жыл бұрын

Jenovi He’s talking about the Sega PlayStation. After Nintendo betrayed Sony, A Sony engineer called Olaf olafsson went to sega of America president Tom Kalinske to discuss about Sony/sega console. They flew to Japan to and pitched it Sony of Japan and they liked the idea. And then Sega of America went to sega of Japan and pitch the idea, but sega of Japan didn’t want to work with Sony because they thought they were “inexeperience in the gaming industry.” So after the sega PlayStation deal didn’t work out, Sony decided to enter the console market by themselves

@seroujghazarian6343

3 жыл бұрын

@@oscarperez9783 ^

Because some people are just unintelligent.

Psx is Ps1. In Europe at least...

So it was a code name. No one still calls the Gamecube the Dolphin. Stop using PSX it’s PlayStation. If you want a shortened version just use PS1.

@TheEddieJ1984

5 жыл бұрын

Every price tag on playstation games in the 90s said PSX. So yea if you were actually alive in the 90s, you remember PSX being used when they wanted to shorten the playstation name.

@TheSuperPlayer707

5 жыл бұрын

Ok, now I'm going to start calling the N64 as PJR (project reality) LMAO!

@TheSuperPlayer707

5 жыл бұрын

Real talking, I never used the initials "PSX" to name the original PlayStation, I always used the initials "PS" without that "X" that always confused me.

@arioca

5 жыл бұрын

Eddie Jacobs Correct. All major video game publications at the time wrote PSX in articles (Game Pro, EGM, Game Fan, etc) and there were also a bunch of magazines named PSX.

@PixelsLtd

5 жыл бұрын

Nope. As the video stated, PS1 was used to refer to the smaller white variant ("psone"), and in the media, magazines etc "Playstation" had been used to refer to the much hyped Nintendo system, widely advertised as their answer to the Mega CD. Sony's machine was referred to exclusively before launch as PSX or "Playstation X", and many major retailers in the UK including Dixons, Currys and Comet spent a lot of time and money hyping it up, so once it was released, continued to use the name as they had created hype and brand awareness. As others have pointed out, retailers put "PSX" on shop shelf and price stickers, multiformat magazines including market leaders CVG & Gamesmaster used PSX, and there were even several, dedicated PlayStation magazines with PSX in the title. Also as the video states, there was a lot of concern in the UK that "Play Station" sounded like something for kids, which was the polar opposite of how Sony Europe wanted to market the system, so although unofficially, they never requested that retailers or magazines stopped using the term PSX, as in the 90s, it certainly sounded cooler and fitted the marketing strategy better. People used the name PSX very widely from around 94 to 98/9 so almost 5 years before the PS2 started being hyped and therefore created a reason to call it the PS1, which Sony then killed by releasing the mini console. Calling the DVR system released around 2001 the PSX is what caused confusion, but by that time the industry had already been calling the original Playstation PSX for 7+ years. I can only speak to my experience in the UK but industry veterans, journalists, retailers and games developers all refer to the original Playstation as PSX to this day, and people who say PS1 sound like younger people who weren't there at the time. If course, everyone is aware of the DVR system called PSX but as is wasn't a dedicated platform and just played PS2 games, and it barely took off due to a ridiculous pricepoint, it is not considered a true standalone system & is rarely ever required to be referred to in conversation other than as an odity with a stupid name.