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What is the difference between playstation and psx?

playstation | psx |

In video games terms the difference between playstation and psx

is that playstation is a video game console of the "PlayStation" brand while psx is the PSX PlayStation, based on the original PlayStation, with an integrated DVD drive to play DVD videos.

As a noun PlayStation

is a video game console of the "PlayStation" brand.

As an initialism PSX is

the original Sony PlayStation (as opposed to the PlayStation 2, the PSOne, or the later PSX).

playstation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (video games) A video game console of the "PlayStation" brand.
  • I bought a PlayStation for my son.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2003, title=Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist?, author=Cash Peters, page=55
  • , passage=Back then, kids didn't have TV or video games, so I guess slaughtering your mom and dad was a bit like the Playstation of its day.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2009, title=One Nation Under Dog, author=Michael Schaffer, page=150
  • , passage=The Everlasting Treat Ball landed like the PlayStation of the pet products world back in 2004.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2009, title=Lonely Planet Morocco, author=Paul Clammer, Alison Bing, Anthony Sattin, Paul Stiles, page=38
  • , passage=He was obsessed with bullfighting, which was the PlayStation of the day, only considerably more dangerous; he was soon gored to death.}}

    psx

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • (video games) The original Sony PlayStation (as opposed to the PlayStation 2, the PSOne, or the later PSX).
  • (video games) The PSX PlayStation, based on the original PlayStation, with an integrated DVD drive to play DVD videos
  • Derived terms

    * * PSY

    See also

    * , PSOne, PS One, PSone * , PSP *

    Anagrams

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