Why Sony used the same name of the first Playstation for a DVR?

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They knew no one would buy it anyway, ergo there wouldn't be any confusion. Not /vr/

Literally name recognition - the same sort of reasoning behind Microsoft naming the Xbox 3 "Xbox One"

But it wasn't the same name, at least not officially.

>>3791347
>Why Sony used the same name of the first Playstation for a DVR?
gotta ask since i see this so often -- where are you from? i keep thinking this pattern is from south east asian ESLs

also it's not the same name. it's a product from the then-recently expanded playstation line of products. are you mad at the playstation portable name too? or are you just for some reason thinking that "PSX" is some quasi-official abbreviation for playstation?

>>3791384
>gotta ask since i see this so often -- where are you from?
Italy my friend

>>3791387
apply yourself my transalpine european friend

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PSX is NOT RETRO

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>>3791384
>for some reason thinking that "PSX" is some quasi-official abbreviation for playstation
You have GOT to be trolling at this point. We've gone over and over and over this but fuck it I'll just dump the definitive article again

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You know a board's slow when nobody even attempts combo breakers anymore

>>3791429
Oh so it's a retarded US-only thing like Genesis.

Righty-ho.

>>3791434

Yeah.

I remember in the early 2000s I was looking for a game...when I typed the title and PSX I came across this. After that I always just typed Playstation 1 and the problem corrected itself.

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>>3791434
Not really, no - unless you just want to write off all the European examples as Ameribooism. Or maybe you can do some more mental gymnastics to come up with a reason to both believe yourself to be right and deny the global cultural impact of what happens in the U.S. Go ahead, I always find that sort of thing interesting.

>>3791469
what are you even trying to say

>>3791434
yeah like Google and artillery bigger than your car

>>3791471
>tl;dr dey called it psx in yurop too 'splain dat

>>3791469
So we have an article clearly stating that the name was requested by SCEA and then rejected by Sony global and an unofficial magazine.

Any more definitive proof to REK me with?

>>3791474
Lol the standard militaristic response.

Good one.

>>3791476
...I feel like we're in agreement now and the problem goes back to you not knowing what "quasi-" means.

>>3791475
the article you posted literally names PSX as a promotional tool for the US sales team and nothing else. random magazines with crazy names are anecdotal evidence at best. i'm from europe and we never called it PSX, ever, where i live.

>>3791347
>The original Playstation was known as the PSX in Europe and America, but wasn't in Japan
>Their DVR device wasn't going to be released in Europe and America, but was in Japan
zero problems

>>3791479
I know what quasi-official means as I studied Latin in grammar school. Did you?

It doesn't really apply in this case as we are talking about the released product which was never, ever referred to by any division of SCE as PSX. Ever.

Podex perfectus es. Futue tu et caballum tuum.

>>3791487
I've seen PSX used in early Japanese press releases by Konami. I think the abbreviation might had been used early on and then felt into disuse.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010625161503/http://www.konami.co.jp/press/index1996.html

>>3791480
PSX was the development codename for the original playstation. Tons of magazines kept calling it PSX. It was only defaulted to PS1 once the psOne units were released, and that was after the PS2 came out.

PS2 was called PSX2 by many magazines as well, up until it got released (with a large "PS2" logo on the side).

Just look up the playstation bios in a hex editor, and it will have the string "PS-X" inside multiple times.

>>3791480
Did you only skim the article or what? "PSX" and "PS-X" were the official prototype/teaser names for the highly anticipated console for years and are also contained in the kernel of every Playstation. The abbreviation has been used continuously online and in print both in America and Europe for decades. To deny it requires some intense cognitive dissonance.

>>3791347
Haven't seen this one in a month or so...gj OP.

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>>3791347
They are the innovators

>>3791373
xbox 1 is xbox original
xbox 2 is xbox 360
xbox 3 is xbox one (1)

>>3791672
Xbox 360 was only named as such because they didn't want to be a number behind PS3. As for Xbox One, people forget that the word "one" is as valid as a noun as it is a number. From my understanding, Xbox One is intended to be the last generation of Xbox console (e.g. The Big One) and that everything afterward will just be enhanced versions of the same console (aka thE iPhone sales model).

>>3791680
It's NGC.

>>3791686
Only in Yurop, the official abbreviations varied by region
GC=NCL
GCN=NoA
NGC=NoE

>>3791803
I always abbreviated DOL. Just like my SHVC and my Sega Mark V.

>>3791681
Which is as much marketing B.S. as every other tech product puts out there. Why do people fall for this nonsense? Why do people fall for this transparent excuse for not innovation? Backwards-compatibility will be all but gone in the next-gen, but let's just pretend 'it's the same thing you liked before, but with better games!'

>>3791803
I remember one of the magazines that circulated here in LatAm called it NGC at first, but at one point early on they changed it to GCN, saying that NGC was already taken by the NeoGeo Pocket Color.

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PSX is what the console calls itself.

>>3792093
>PSX

That's not what the screenshot shows though. It's a contraction of PlayStation-X which was indeed the internal development codename.

>>3792093
Finally. Definitive proof it was never called the PSX.
Even if it is posted by a fucktard who can't read.

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>>3792093
>Unicode swastika
PS1 confirmed for Nazi propaganda.

>>3791681
>From my understanding, Xbox One is intended to be the last generation of Xbox console (e.g. The Big One) and that everything afterward will just be enhanced versions of the same console (aka thE iPhone sales model).
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be short for "all-in-one." The original concept seemed to be a multimedia monster that would dominate the living room and give all members of the household ample use and reason to want one even if they didn't play video games, hence the emphasis on cable TV and sports so dad would see the point in plunking down $500 for the damn thing.

>>3792093
I guess I should call the gamecube the Dolphin instead too.

PSX is an accepted abbreviation for the original PlayStation in the USA. Anyone who was old enough to be aware of gaming in the 90s understands it and saw it used.

Deal wit' it.

>>3792830
>pretending you're that old and aren't just parroting

The X makes it sound cool.

Playstation....X!

>>3792786
no, spencer said they wanted people to call it "the one", but it never took off.

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>>3791469
wasnt the codename for the console PSX?
so itd be like calling the switch a few years from now the NX, technically right.
i would believe the name came from the fight with nintendo when they were claiming the rights to tha Play Station brand name, so they just made it like PS-X as in like NEW playstation. i may be wrong about the reason, and i probably am, but its still the codename given to the console during the development, again like the NX and switch.

>>3792825
i see alot of people call nintendo 64 the mega64 still.

>>3793232
i love my ultra 64

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>>3793232
>>3793239
there was even a magazine going by that name. that's all the proof i need that the ultra 64 is the name god intended for the machine to have

This is a silly argument you babbies.
It's perfectly clear it's the OG Playstation you're referring to no matter what term you use.

>>3793232
i meant ultra 64

>>3793243
>nintendo
>super nintendo
>ultra nintendo
perfect

i love my U64

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>>3793250
>Nintendo
>Not NES or Famicom

>>3793254
hahah holy fuck what jews.
they knew that if people used nintendo to refer to consoles in general theyd lose their trademark on the name

>>3793261
that just makes them businesspeople, to be honest. why would they willingly forfeit their trademarks? what's your agenda here, anon? sega shills get the fuck out

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>>3793261
They shouldn't had made the mistake of naming their consoles in the west after their company.

Everyone always assume that Nintendo and Super Nintendo are the names of the console and the "Entertainment System" part was just a descriptive tagline. Turns out you're actually supposed to say the whole thing or abbreviate it.

Not sure why they didn't just stick with the Famicom branding they used in Japan. I supposed they technically didn't use Famicom as a brand name until 1988, since that was originally just the abbreviated name of the console.

>>3793265
woah there buddy, dont call a nes a nintendo!
you need to call it the Nintendo Entretainment System (tm) and state that its the intelecutal property of Nintendo Of America! dont call it a nintendo game, call it a Nintendo brand Game Software!
jeez

>>3793273
don't be pants on head retarded. they didn't want people to call sega trash "nintendo", and rightly so.

>>3793272
pretty sure no other console at the time was so strict. they probably did have some rules like these but ive never seen sega have a shitfit over someone not calling their controller the 'Sega Genesis six button game pad' or even sony who actually has a name for their controller, never seen or heard anyone throw a shitfit because they call the dualshock a controller/gamepad

>>3793275
that isnt a NINTENDO BRAND SYSTEM!!1
its a console. call it a console, BUT NOT THIS SYSTEM THIS IS THE NINTENDO ENTRTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH NINTENDO GAME SOFTWARE

>>3791418
So are we calling Gamecube dolphin now?

>>3793293
we are

>>3793272
>6
>23
What? Why?

>>3793230
>wasnt the codename for the console PSX?

It was, and it was also an early marketing name (Playstation X). MAny magazines kept calling it PSX afterwards because it sounded *cool*. It was only changed to PS1 once the PS2 came out with big letters on its front saying "PS2" instead of PSX2.

>>3792825
Yes, and you should also call the Genesis as Mark Five, the wii as Revolution, the Nomad as Venus, N64 as Ultra 64 or Project Reality, and the Saturn as Saturn.

>>3792889

I'm 28.

>>3793329
german here thats truew and even more only shitmags called it x

it was just PS you clowns, fuck off

>>3793313
>6
To filter profanity and expletives from passwords.
>23
Probably localization purposes, such as key config screens or tutorials, since they went with purple and lavender for the U.S. buttons instead of multiple colors. There's a few slip-ups in some of their earlier games, such as SimCity and Mario World.

>>3793353
Well that explains why your memories of what the playstation was called are so poor. Your brain was busy trying to learn how to tie your shoes at the time.

>>3793254
>nintendo is an adjective
>beautiful entertainment sysyem-
ok, I buy that
>Super beautiful
weird, that sounds like a name
>beautiful 64
what the fuck, you are fucking using it as an name
>beautiful GameCube
fuck off Nintendo

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>>3794947
tell me how long you've spent on this and i'll tell you how long i'll laugh at your sorry life

>>3791432
Do you have a pdf of all of that?

>>3792093
What program is that?

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>>3795085
>literally in the title bar

>>3795087
?

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>>3795094
!

>>3795109
Mb,I thought it was the file name. Btw how did you checked the codename? Did you just open the bios file into the program?

>>3795017
Longer than you've ever spent on anything in your life

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>>3794947
Thanks, man, awesome pic

>>3795191
do... do you want to maybe rethink your statement?

>>3792093
I should call my Famicom a Home Video Computer and my Game Boy a Dot Matrix Game.

>>3795123
no you fuck it into the program

>>3793254
>Nintendo is an adjective
BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

>>3795070
I'm pretty sure I do - and it's basically vanished from the Internet since GamesRadar bought Edge. The full version has quite a bit of additional pictures of development stuff and so on. I'll see if I can't find it and post it on /lit/ or some other board that allows pdfs because I'd like to see it preserved.

>>3795210
That's a very nintendo post you've got there.
A shade of nintendo green no doubt.

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>>3791418
>>3791409
>>3791501
>>3791503

Heres an old registration card from 1992 and look what system is on there
Sony PS-X

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>>3794947

>>3795214
When you do just make sure to link that in this thread.

>>3795123
Open the bios file in a hexadecimal editor, and do a ctrl+f for "PS-X".

I only have SCPH1001.BIN and SCPH7502.BIN over here, but they both have it.

>>3795234
That can't be from 1992 if it lists PS-X and Saturn; and since it says "other platforms you own", it would be very late 94 or early 95 at best.

>>3795242
Sorry youre right, I looked and it was a re-released box of a early 90s Interplay gamr

>>3795242
>>3795245
To be fair, the PS-X was announced as early as late 1991/early 1992, back when it was supposed to be a Super NES with built-in CD-ROM drive. Still, it would be odd that registry card would ask you if you own an unreleased platform.

Also, Pentium processors weren't available until '93.

>>3795017
Sounds like you're just asshurt that he proved you wrong

>>3795265
sounds like >he amassed loads of anecdotal evidence for the easily convinced and omitted all instances that did not use PSX but PS.

>>3795268
It's not there to disprove other terms, it's there to show doubters that the term PSX was commonly used in multiple territories, across a variety of mediums, both in the business and among gamers themselves.
It backs up anecdotal posts from anons who know the term was widely used, with actual evidence of its usage on the websites, print, and public forums of the time.

>>3795294
the whole point of this argument was that naming the device PSX is a non-issue, since PSX never was the official abbreviation of the playstation. widespread usage does not equal quasi-official abbreviation. OP was a faggot for sucking up the meme abbreviation y'all are clowns for reiterating it.

>>3795305
>Sony extensively referring to it as PSX in pre-release, promotional, and technical materials as well as within the code of every console is not even "quasi-official"
Again, I don't think you know what "quasi" means.

>>3795346
mate did you just own yourself
>Sony refering to it as PSX in anything but genuinely official use cases
looks like you did.

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>>3795254
Yeah, but the Saturn was not announced or leaked in any form until 1993.

>>3794947
wow...... /vr/ btfo!!