The First Playstation

[L___E___T]

So it exists....  Thought you guys would like to see this!

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/07/prototype_snes_playstation_found_in_the_wild_unicorn_and_big_foot_expected_next

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Also, happy 5555th post 

[nerdynebraskan]

That's a pretty amazing piece of gaming history right there, as long as it isn't some kind of elaborate fake.

[NintendoKing]

That's super cool and interesting overall.

[aarkay14]

Jesus Christ !!

Thats prototypes gotta be like worth a million dollars right now !!!
I guess its like invaluable !!! Awesome discovery !!!

I would love to see it power up and see the boot screen.. maybe there s a SNES startup animation and everything !! Holy shit ! my heart is literally racing while I type this..

- Rama

[BonBon]

Unreal... Just unfucking believable... I'm literally speechless. Can't wait to see what's on the cartridge. I'm always dreaming and fantasizing about finding something this rare and exciting in the wild.

[P]

Cool it's like a Twin Super Famicom! I wonder if standalone units that hooks up to a Super Famicom also exists.
I found a video of it (still not hooked up though) and some better pictures (http://www.gamesradar.com/original-sonynintendo-playstation-prototype/). If that's fake someone has way too much free time (or trying to make money). The cart reads デモ用 (demo usage) and some numbers.

Hopefully this holy grail eventually find it's way to someone willing to thoroughly analyse and document the unit, cart and CD.

[BonBon]

I'm honestly thinking about making this guy an offer. can anybody please pm me to chat about a realistic price. I'd really like to discuss this with fellow veteran collectors and gain there opinions on a realistic price point.

[number47]

Hold your horses - one french dude already confessed that this glorious fake was his masterpiece.
http://pxlbbq.com/la-snes-cd-quand-nintendo-x-sony/

[UglyJoe]

French dude is lying

[L___E___T]

I'm honestly thinking about making this guy an offer. can anybody please pm me to chat about a realistic price. I'd really like to discuss this with fellow veteran collectors and gain there opinions on a realistic price point.

Jay this is so celebrated I think you just need to offer what you think it's worth - my guess would be tens of thousands, I can easily see offers of $30,000 - $50,000 if this ever want to a real auction house, maybe much more.  It's such an infamous story and one that the effects of are still cited regularly today, it's not something anyone could really put a finger on, and if they say they can they're overstating ability to gauge these kinds of things.

If I had loads of money like some collector's do - I'd easily be willing to spend £50K up.  I don't have that kind of cash, but we all know that some people do.

For the sake of argument why don't we have a roundtable, what do you think it's worth?  Essentially we're guessing 'what would someone with millions be willing to pay for it?'

Do we think that some of our other members like Ryo and Poppy might be tempted to make an offer?  Do we all think this is legit, or are there doubts?  Let's discuss!


Post Merge: July 05, 2015, 12:24:19 pm

French dude is lying

Vadu Amka is female I believe (is that the "dude" referred to?), I saw her name mentioned - has she directly claimed she made it, or did someone else claim that she made it?  

I did notice some questionable details, but I don't think it does her favours to fake a system like this, personally.  Time will tell, if / when it's booted up I suppose.

[kevkevkev]

I called fake.  at the point they were with nintendo it wouldnt be labelled playstation.  would you not take photos of underside.? Try to boot up etc. BEFORE telling the world. Even if really it would be a design proto that didnt work anyway.

[P]

It was called Playstation long before they made it a standalone console. Haven't you seen old pictures of the Nintendo Playstation peripheral?
It's still possible it's fake though. There are enough people with too much free time in the world, but I don't like to be pessimistic.

[L___E___T]

The pictures on record of that prototype don't match this one - what's more there are slight differences and little suspicious details, I'd say it could be fake, the more I think of it the more it makes me wonder.

[number47]

Things that bother me about this "product":
The name was property of Nintendo, but not written as PlayStation. It was registered as Play Station.
There is no point of putting two proprietary AV connectors plus regular RCA's on the back.
Analog potentiometer volume knob.
Unnatural asymmetrical design (you can forgive this for a fax machine but not for a console).
If it would be made by Sony and Nintendo together it would be in Japan not in USA - all the serious research and development of both firms is carried out in Japan only (yeah right Olaf had it in his office).
Plastic yellowing is unnatural - lower front is too darn yellow, but the notorious SFC cartride backside is white.

I'll say it's fake until I haven't seen the internals or the booting.

[Pikkon]

The is the real deal.
http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/nintendo-snes-playstation-finally-uncovered.57166/