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The "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype will soon be put up for sale
- Thread starter Romain
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I'm interested.
Which Museum would be the best candidate to treat this item properly? I mean, this is videogame history right there.
Which Museum would be the best candidate to treat this item properly? I mean, this is videogame history right there.
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I wonder if Nintendo and/or PlayStation will ever jump up and say. Look what we have in our archives and show other prototypes including software running on it.
I think the dude will be lucky if he can get 6 figures for it. 3 mil seems impossible.
I think the dude will be lucky if he can get 6 figures for it. 3 mil seems impossible.
In an ideal world this thing would end up in a museum, but alas, this world is anything but ideal 🙁
Yeah, would be phenomenal if Sony and Nintendo would buy it and donate it to a museum, but I don't think they're interested unfortunately. They both act like this never happened.
Wow, I highly doubt anyone would ever pay that much for it. I would've guessed low 6 figures - That seems about right to me. 3 million is bonkers.
Agreed. Figured it would sell for somewhere between $70-$130k.
It's a poor investment, so the Uber rich aren't gonna buy it. And the subset of people who adore video games, know video game history, but collectibles, and are willing to drop $1MM+ has to be a very, very small group.
I'd buy it for like $12k, lol. But I'd put it in a museum for sure (after extracting as much info, programming, and photos from it) as possible.
Here's the contents of a thread I made a long while back (which only got 1 reply) with articles on all three separate, different SNES CD systems that were in development..
www.resetera.com/threads/snes-cd-rom-thread-nintendo-sony-philips-16-bit-32-bit-versions.49597/
Electronic Gaming Monthly #29 December 1991
Electronic Gaming Monthly #32 March 1992
EGM June 1992
Electronic Gaming Monthly - April 1993
Then I found this article in Electronic Games magazine (the 1992 incarnation of EG) from their April 1993 issue.
Skip forward to Feburary 1997 - an article on the Nintendo 64 "Bulky Drive" / 64DD, and the history with the Nintendo Disc CD-ROM (32-bit version) from 1993.
(#1) 1990
Sony/Nintendo "Super Disc" format - expansion CD-ROM and an all-in-one "Play Station" - no actual processor upgrade, other than RAM
(#2) 1991
SNES CD-ROM (Nintendo, Philips)- expansion CD-ROM - extra RAM, again, no actual processor upgrade other than RAM
(#3) 1993
Nintendo Disc aka CD-ROMXA (Nintendo + Philips + maybe Sony) - expansion CD-RPM - 32-bit, 21 MHz co-processor upgrade. Plus the decompression processor. This is the one that was not only a CD expansion, but also had additional power, making it an upgrade, like the Sega-CD, but 32-bit and even more powerful. The previous two were more in line with the PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM systems, which were CD drives with more (and more) RAM but no extra processing chips.
The prototype SNES CD-ROM system that was unearthed a few years ago, which got quite a bit of coverage,
was the all-in-one version of SNES CD #1 - the 'Play Station', or just 'Nintendo PlayStation'.
Hell of a post. <3
No problem, my pleasure. So many people just remember one or two of the SNES CD systems, and usually forget the last one which was a true upgrade, which was of course the one that had the most potential.I think because Nintendo announced the 64-bit Project Reality with SGI later in 1993, the 32-bit CD system with its system cartridge and custom CD-ROM discs+CD caddy is the one gets forgotten about most easily.
Thanks :)
Well ERA, it seems like we're coming full-circle, with this SIE patent for a PlayStation cartridge.