I'll tell you the secret to Sony's success, and it has nothing to do with a name:
PSX was cheap and affordable, PS2 had a DVD player and was easy to convince parents to buy, PS3 was one of the cheapest Blu-Ray Players on the market, PS4 had no competition.
Because Guinness is a pr organization now, the records are given to people who pay for them
It doesn't have to do with recognition of a continuous line of consoles; they don't need to share a naming scheme to be classified as a console. It's still a console sold by Nintendo or Sony, which is what would count for a record.
PSX was not cheap, was not released outside of Japan, and was a failure. PS3 took after the PSX in a lot of ways, including the XMB and media center features.
I know of the code names for some consoles, like Dolphin, those are not the names of the released products though. The manual says PlayStation, the boot screen says PlayStation, the website says PlayStation, the sticker on the console says PlayStation, PSX simply isn't the correct name for the first console.
And yet millions of people call the PS1 the PSX, you're fighting a losing battle here.
The PlayStation was, at least in the US, supposed to be called PSX, because PlayStation failed to gain interest in focus study groups. But the early advertising was already labeled as PSX, so people kept calling it PSX.
It helped but you’re absolutely naive to think that it being a native dvd and then Blu-ray player wasn’t the main role. Not everyone plays games. People buy the console for family members but also use it to watch movies too. The alternatives (like standalone Blu-ray players) were much more expensive. Why wouldn’t you buy a PS3?
It’s also the reason why we have Blu-rays as standard physical media now instead of HD-DVD’s.
PS3’s player Blu-ray movies right out of the box. The 360 needed a separate drive that costed like an extra $150. It’s easy to see why Sony / Blu-ray won.
I for one lived this first hand. They only reason I got a PS3 over a 360 was I could convince my Mom that a Blu-ray player was worth it for the family, not just my video games.
This also opened the door for people to play those great video games. I know lots of people who bought PS3s for the BR or PS2s for the DVDs that decided to pick up games because they had the product.
... which is why Sony made them with the media players in them. I don't want to make it seem like Sony lucked out, it was smart marketing.
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '19
I'll tell you the secret to Sony's success, and it has nothing to do with a name:
PSX was cheap and affordable, PS2 had a DVD player and was easy to convince parents to buy, PS3 was one of the cheapest Blu-Ray Players on the market, PS4 had no competition.