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[Shompola]

I like many others call Super Smash Brothers Melee by the wrong acronym "SSMB"
It is wrong but easier to type or pronounce :]

 

[mollipen]

Wasn't PSX the official acronym of the Playstation up until Sony up and released a real PSX, which was a PS2-based media box? Then all our PSX abbreviations were thrown a loop.

Spoiler

I still call the Playstation, "PSX" though.

I could be wrong here, but I want to say that once the PlayStation became the PlayStation and not the machines that was a subset of the SNES, the "X" was dropped. I did a one-shot PlayStation fanzine when the machine was first hitting the States, and I almost want to say that in talking to Sony, I was told at that point that PSX wasn't "proper." Even if it wasn't that early, I do seem to recall somebody from Sony stating in some publication or something that "PSX" was not a Sony-recognized abbreviation for the system.

Again, I could be wrong, but I don't think Sony themselves ever officially used PSX in reference to the PlayStation ever, at least publically. Pretty much everybody else was using that abbreviation, though, so I think that's why it stuck as much as it did. To this day I still use it, even though some people now like to say that it's wrong.

 

[jamesinclair]

NTR NTR NTR NTR NTR

OXY OXY OXY OXY.


SNES.

 

[TAJ]

GCN is Engrish at best. Personally, I think that you have to be a retard to use it.

 

[Chittagong]

The only real system abbreviations ever.

NES
DMG
MGB
SNS
VUE
NUS
CGB
AGB
AGS
DOL
NTR
USG

 

[Vormund]

I was under the impression that the PSOne we know now was referred to internally at Sony as PlayStation-X to not confuse it with the original Super Nintendo based PlayStation.

I remember reading in magazines a lot of them were referring it as PSX/PlayStation-X for a while prior to launch. I guess it just stuck.