[japsander]

Originally Posted by TizzyT The PS1 was originally supposed to be some sort of disc attachment to a Nintendo console. Nintendo ditched Sony and went with Panasonic instead. PSX was a PS2 media center basicially. It plays ps2 games and had an internal hard drive that stored media.

The history of the Playstation begins in 1988 when Sony and Nintendo were working together to develop the Super Disc. The Super Disc was going to be a CD-ROM attachment that was intended to be part of Nintendo's soon to be released Super Nintendo game. However, Sony and Nintendo parted ways business-wise and the Super Disc was never introduced or used by Nintendo. In 1991, Sony used a modified version of the Super Disk as part of their new game console - the Sony Playstation. Research and development for the PlayStation had began in 1990, headed by Sony engineer, Ken Kutaragi. Only two hundred models of the first Playstation (that could play Super Nintendo game cartridges) were manufactured by Sony. The original Playstation was designed as a multi-media and multi-purpose entertainment unit. Besides being able to play Super Nintendo games, the Playstation could play audio CDs and could read CDs with computer and video information as well. In 1994, the new PlayStation X (PSX) was released that was no longer compatable with Nintendo game cartridges and only played CD-ROM based games. A smart move that soon made Playstations the best

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now i would rim a gibbon to have one of those consoles

and psx was widely used as the "official" name for ps1 here in the uk for a long time which caused confusion when the other psx later on was announced

[TizzyT]

Originally Posted by japsander from now i would rim a gibbon to have one of those consoles and psx was widely used as the "official" name for ps1 here in the uk for a long time which caused confusion when the other psx later on was announced

PSX I was talking about :

[Annelies]

Originally Posted by GregoryRasputin Maybe i am your father O_O

O_o

[GregoryRasputin]

Originally Posted by TizzyT PSX was a PS2 media center basicially. It plays ps2 games and had an internal hard drive that stored media.

The PSX was what the PS1 was known as in many countries, i think Sony stole the name PSX for its PS2 DVR to be ass holes.

Anyhow the PSX is a PS2 DVR and doing research on the Sega Saturn, it had many iterations of DVRdom, one being a Hitachi branded Hi-Saturn, the second model of which had a screen that you could buy for it.

[gDrive]

Originally Posted by TizzyT The PS1 was originally supposed to be some sort of disc attachment to a Nintendo console. Nintendo ditched Sony and went with Panasonic instead. PSX was a PS2 media center basicially. It plays ps2 games and had an internal hard drive that stored media. Oh yeah don't forget the intellivision lol, I had one. Virtualboy was supposed to be the first 3d console, you wore it on your head and it produce games in red on black iirc.

Actually, Nintendo went with Philips instead but since the addon plans never materialized, that then led to Philips creating the CDi, whilst having the right to use Nintendo's intellectual properies, in which that led to sh*tty games

Sony, felt that they got done over by Nintendo, and with the R&D that they did for them, they decided to use it to their advantage, which led to Sony officially sticking their foot in the gaming industry with the PlayStation.

[GregoryRasputin]

Sony also planned to develop a Super Nintendo-compatible, Sony-branded console, but one which would be more of a home entertainment system playing both Super Nintendo cartridges and a new CD format which Sony would design. This was also to be the format used in SNES-CDs, giving a large degree of control to Sony despite Nintendo's leading position in the video gaming market. The product, dubbed the "Play Station" was to be announced at the May 1991 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). However, when Nintendo's Hiroshi Yamauchi read the original 1988 contract between Sony and Nintendo, he realized that the earlier agreement essentially handed Sony complete control over any and all titles written on the SNES CD-ROM format. Yamauchi decided that the contract was totally unacceptable and he secretly canceled all plans for the joint Nintendo-Sony SNES CD attachment. Instead of announcing a partnership between Sony and Nintendo, at 9 am the day of the CES, Nintendo chairman Howard Lincoln stepped onto the stage and revealed that Nintendo was now allied with Philips, and Nintendo was planning on abandoning all the previous work Nintendo and Sony had accomplished. Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa had, unbeknownst to Sony, flown to Philips headquarters in Europe and formed an alliance of a decidedly different nature—one that would give Nintendo total control over its licenses on Philips machines.

/me thinks Nintendo f*cked up bad, but im glad they did, the PS1 was one of the most awesome consoles ever released.

[Annelies]

Ahh... the PS1. Such a great system.

It had so many good games it could make your head spin.

[BobbyBlunt]

Originally Posted by GregoryRasputin /me thinks Nintendo f*cked up bad, but im glad they did, the PS1 was one of the most awesome consoles ever released.

Nintendo 64 is the reason I went to the Playstation brand. I later became hooked on Tekken 3. Then the PS2 came out and Tekken Tag Tournament was a launch title for that machine. It wasn't until PS3 that Sony started to leave a bad taste in my mouth

[japsander]

Originally Posted by BobbyBlunt Nintendo 64 is the reason I went to the Playstation brand. I later became hooked on Tekken 3. Then the PS2 came out and Tekken Tag Tournament was a launch title for that machine. It wasn't until PS3 that Sony started to leave a bad taste in my mouth

n64 was dead to me when they sodomized killer instinct

long live snes killer instinct

Originally Posted by TizzyT PSX I was talking about :

yeah thats what caused confusion

the ps1 and psx were both named the same

[GregoryRasputin]

PS-X (PlayStation Experimental) was an internal code name for the PlayStation during development. The popular use of the "PSX" abbreviation outside Sony became a source of confusion when Sony Of Japan ignored Sony of America's decision and introduced its PSX digital video recorder in 2003.

A larger sticking point, however, was PlayStation branding. SCEA hated the name and wanted to change it to PSX, a contraction of the project’s codename. “This was actually a huge internal battle, to the point where there was research done among consumer groups,” says Harrison, who, having seen various youth groups reacting badly to the name PlayStation, had his own fears about it. “I remember thinking, ‘Oh my God, the name is bombing and everyone is going to hate it’. I shared the information with Tokunaka-san, and he said, ‘Oh, that’s nothing, you should have heard what people said about Walkman’. And that pretty much ended the debate.” In Europe, at least: the US nevertheless went ahead with early trade promotion, calling it PSX, and had even come up with its own mascot, Polygon Man.

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This is a really good read
http://www.edge-online.com/features/making-playstation