[ivl]

To your comment about a PlayStation being ridiculously simple compared to a desktop computer I'd call that close to true in the case of the now 20 year old first generation. The most recent two have basically been custom extensions on top of an operating system (FreeBSD 9). Which is to say they are desktop computers.

[grawprog]

I generally assume if there's no numbers appended to the end of PlayStation it's referring to the PlayStation 1. Also, based on the context of what the parent poster was describing, I think it's fairly safe to assume they were in fact referring to the 'first generation' Playstation as you call it.