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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: BeerStud on July 29, 2002, 04:57:38 AM

Title: Trivia Question that I need to know?
Post by: BeerStud on July 29, 2002, 04:57:38 AM
Wut does the X stand for in PSX?
Title: Trivia Question that I need to know?
Post by: Samwise on July 29, 2002, 04:59:41 AM
Xperimental I guess... can\'t remember if that\'s the official explaination. But PSX was the codename for PlayStation before it was released. It\'s never been named PSX officially though.
Title: Trivia Question that I need to know?
Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 29, 2002, 06:03:46 AM
Like Sammy said, before it was called "Playstation" the name was PSX. It is common really for companies to have different names for a product durin\' different stages of its development. Take for example \'Project Reality\' was named \'Ultra 64\' and then later re-named to \'Nintendo 64\' because of brand name recongition. There is countless other examples (Katanna, Neptune, etc). The only big difference is "PSX" caught on and sort of became the un-offical, offical name.
;)
Title: Trivia Question that I need to know?
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on July 29, 2002, 06:19:07 AM
i\'ve heard it\'s the development name for teh system, but i\'ve also heard it means playstation extreme. Dunno which one is true though.
Title: Trivia Question that I need to know?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 29, 2002, 08:50:24 AM
Yes, it was the secret name of PlayStation before the launch of the system. It was knowed as PlayStation X.
Title: Trivia Question that I need to know?
Post by: SonyFan on July 29, 2002, 11:55:05 AM
Right, when it was still in development as a SNES add-on, the name of the project was PlaystationX. After Nintnedo screwed over Sony, Sony decided to beef up the hardware and launch it as their own 32 bit machine. They kept the X in the name PSX to spite Nintnedo.
Title: Trivia Question that I need to know?
Post by: EmperorRob on July 29, 2002, 12:21:40 PM
LIC puts the X in PSX
Title: Trivia Question that I need to know?
Post by: square_marker on July 29, 2002, 04:53:40 PM
.....if you think about it...playstation is a lame name....but were so used to hearing and using it we dont notice.
Title: Trivia Question that I need to know?
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on July 30, 2002, 04:12:40 AM
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Originally posted by SonyFan
Right, when it was still in development as a SNES add-on, the name of the project was PlaystationX. After Nintnedo screwed over Sony, Sony decided to beef up the hardware and launch it as their own 32 bit machine. They kept the X in the name PSX to spite Nintnedo.


Ahh yep now i remember, Nintendo were making a CD addon with sony. Nintendo screwed sony and so the psx was born. :)