Do you think if we have a whip around we can afford this? Cedric Biscay – the founder of Magic Monaco and a key player in the production of Shenmue III – has revealed on social media that Terry Diebold intends to sell the only known Nintendo PlayStation prototype in existence. He happened upon the mythological machine when his former employer Advanta Corporation auctioned off its assets after going bankrupt in 2009, and has since had the CD drive repaired and toured the unit around the United States.
For those of you who don’t know, the Nintendo PlayStation represents a milestone moment in gaming history. Sony famously partnered with the House of Mario to create a CD drive for the Super Nintendo, but it was famously backstabbed by its Japanese compatriot and went on to produce the PlayStation on its own. It’ll be fascinating to see what kind of figure this device attracts – it’s a one-of-a-kind piece of hardware, and frankly something that deserves to be exhibited in some kind of museum.
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I've got £4.12 in my wallet if that helps
@Quintumply I will chip in £6.45 and a euro that was in my wallet too.
I wonder what the gaming industry would look like if Sony and Nintendo had a successful partnership. It could have been a super giant bigger than Steam
Final price will be £168,720,000 (well if I win the Euro Lottery on Friday that is)
I mentioned this on a tweet and said it would be good if we could get a crowdfund together to get it in a museum but apparently the asking price is in the region of $3million so that isn't happening. Which is a real real shame.
Maybe if we all chip in together, we can buy it and have it displayed in Push Square Towers.
I will give you £3.50
I'll swap it for a Wham bar.
"but it was famously backstabbed by its Japanese compatriot"
After Sony would have forced Nintendo to pay to release games on its own damn system. Works two ways after all.
Anyhow, I reckon this will fetch $100k at most.
@Quintumply @themcnoisy
I've got $5!
If we all chip in we can buy it, and work out a schedule where all of us get a day to take it home, and alternate who keeps the system on weekends!
Can it play sega genesis games😳.word up son
It really should be in a museum. Oh well though, what can you do? Heck, I'd probably chip in my $5 to get it send there on a clearly legitimate kickstarter or something.
That’s some history right there.
im sure a rich guy will throw thousands of dollars on it, and then take it home and put it in his closet, and we will never see it again.
I could see this getting put of hand and go over 100k. If that track game is 40k it seems reasonable lol. Reasonablelolol
Naughty Dog can finally produce the new Donkey Kong on Nintendo!
@playstation1995 Probably with an adapter!
It'd be cool to own one but it looks like an old control unit for central heating or air conditioning. The rare thing I'd most like is either the PSX (not as in the odd abbreviation of PlayStation 1, it's a different thing) and the Net Yaroze, the black PS1 you could make and even burn your own games on.
I've got some book tokens that are still valid. Could be worth something.
But seriously, I think this'll make over £100k easily.
Doesn't include Atari, no sale.
Sony should just buy it and put it on display in their headquarters. This was how PS began...
The only prototype? I saw at least a couple of different youtubers fiddling around with one of these in the past year or so.
This thing belongs in a Video Game Museum.
It has enormous historical significance for the industry.
Well there's a bit of yellowing and no box so that should knock the price down 😆
Pretty much priceless there are so few
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