Talk:PlayStation (console)

Where is Price History? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.72.216.156 (talk) 12:17, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Unless there is some specific reason to talk about it (such as it being significantly lower or higher than competitors, or a price drop significantly effecting sales for example) listing prices is against Wikipedia policy. Any article that does list such things either has some specific reason or is in violation of policy (and so the info should be removed). Alphathon™ (talk) 12:28, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

that this discussion page is completely empty is also very dubious, all other so popular pages have a giant comment page

corrupt wiki censors, go to hell —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.72.216.156 (talk) 10:20, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

It's empty because it was recently archived (see Talk:PlayStation (console)/Archive 2). Alphathon™ (talk) 10:33, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

PlayStation (console) → PlayStation (original) — Like iPhone (original).--Marcus Qwertyus 09:46, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose, mainly because I don't see any advantage to moving it. The reason it is "console" at the moment is to disambiguate it from the PlayStation series. While this would sort-of work with "PlayStation (original)" it isn't as clear. Alphathon™ (talk) 15:35, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

If you wanted an overview article of the PS1, PS2, PS3 series that would be okay but it should be created separately so the revision history could be saved. Marcus Qwertyus 22:45, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

It already exists (see the link), so I don't quite get what you're saying. Regardless though I still think PlayStation (console) is more descriptive than PlayStation (original). On a side note, I'm not really convinced about the naming of the linked iPhone page either. Alphathon™ (talk) 22:59, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

The PlayStation Series also consists of the PlayStation Portable. This article is a little consistent. in the lead it talks little about the PS1, PS2, PS3 series yet the rest of the page is about the PS1. Marcus Qwertyus 23:06, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

What? This article (PlayStation (console)) makes little-to-no mention of the PS2 and no mention at all about the PS3 in the lead. The article about the series (PlayStation) deals with all PlayStation consoles (1, 2, 3 and PSP). Alphathon™ (talk) 23:31, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Honestly I don't see what what you are talking about beyond your first post; maybe I'm just missing something. I said the reason this page is specifically called "console" it to make it clearer that it isn't a page about the PlayStation series which is found at PlayStation and I linked in the first reply. Perhaps the confusion arose because I used a piped link so "PlayStation series" would take you to PlayStation. I am not proposing that this page be moved to "PlayStation series", I am simply pointing out that it is currently called "PlayStation (console)" so it obvious that it is not the article about the PlayStation series.

Alphathon™ (talk) 23:31, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

PlayStation is also a series of consoles, making the current disambiguation useless. Marcus Qwertyus 23:41, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

I don't know what I'm doing wrong here, but that is not what I meant at all. I'm saying that it is called "PlayStation (console)" so that it is unambiguous as to what page you are on. If you are on a page called "PlayStation (console)", it is pretty clear that it is about the console and not the PlayStation brand/series/whatever. I am not saying anything about a disambiguation page, I am saying that it is called "(console)" to make it obvious that it is talking about the console. While "(original)" isn't all that ambiguous I feel that "(console)" does a better job. Alphathon™ (talk) 23:50, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

I am not saying that PlayStation (the article about the series) or PlayStation (console) should be moved anywhere, or that a new article about the PS1, 2 and 3 should be created. I am saying that I don't think there is any reason to move this page (or PlayStation for that matter) since it is slightly less ambiguous than the proposed name and the proposed name doesn't seem to have any advantage other than consistency with the iPhone article. Also, I'm not sure the consistency argument holds much weight on its own, since it isn't quite comparing like-for-like. With the iPhone, the series is essentially a series of iterations on the same thing, with fairly minor differences between the "generations" (incidentally, I think the iPhone page would be better as "iPhone (first generation)" than "iPhone (original)" since that is generally what it's called and it is more precise, but such a minor move wouldn't really be worth any potential disruption). In that way, "original" implies "the original version of…". With the PS1 however, each successor is more of sequel, so "original" can only mean "first in the series", which isn't quite the same thing. While writing this it also occurred to me that there is another issue - there is an original PlayStation i.e. the fat version of the console rather than the slimmed down PS One. Not that "PlayStation (console)" disambiguates this, but "PlayStation (original)" could add a certain amount of ambiguity. Alphathon™ (talk) 00:12, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose because (1) this is not the original PlayStation, the SNES version was. (2) This is not the first retail version of the PlayStation, that would by the first PSX, this article covers the PS One, and other variants as well. Perhaps it might be called PlayStation 1 (not "One") instead. 184.144.163.241 (talk) 04:38, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

That would be okay with me. Marcus Qwertyus 04:42, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

I wouldn't be all that bothered about calling it PlayStation 1 either, but there'd have to be a reason for it. I think there might be some policy reason against it as well (seem to remember it being being discussed before and not going any further for that reason - something about that never actually having been it's official name I think) but I might be wrong.

P.S. It's against Wikipedia policy to edit other people's posts, even just to correct spelling/grammar errors.

Alphathon™ (talk) 05:08, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Some articles have retroactive titles like unguided bomb, First generation jet fighter etc. Since the PS1 wasn't discontinued until 2006 I imagine many people were calling it that. Marcus Qwertyus 06:19, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

SNES-CD

Is there an article on the aborted SNES-CD add on.....

as putting it in as a topic redirects here......????