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The Nintendo PlayStation SNES CD-ROM Prototype is now up for Public Auction

How much will the prototype sell for?

  • $10,000 - $50,000

    Votes: 49 13.6%

  • $50,000 - $100,000

    Votes: 53 14.7%

  • $100,000 - $250,000

    Votes: 69 19.2%

  • $250,000 - $500,000

    Votes: 53 14.7%

  • $500,000 - $1,000,000

    Votes: 58 16.1%

  • $1,000,000 - $3,000,000

    Votes: 46 12.8%

  • $3,000,000+

    Votes: 32 8.9%
  • Total voters
    360
  • Poll closed .
Lady Bow

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At one point, this dual-branded prototype's existence was mere myth, and this is the very first time it will ever be offered at public auction. It is said to be the last remaining prototype of the alleged 200 that were forged from the failed joint-venture between Sony and Nintendo, two of the biggest competitors in the home console video game market. Reportedly, the other prototypes have since been destroyed. We at Heritage can attest the prototype is working, as we've played a couple of rounds of Mortal Kombat on it using a Super Famicom cartridge.
The prototype does share some exterior similarities with both the Super Nintendo and the Sony PlayStation, but it has its own, unique characteristics as well.....
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Auction: https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-gam...otype-sony-and-nintendo-c-1992/a/7224-93060.s

How much do you think the final bid will be? Personally I'm hoping a musuem will win it out to show it off as the crazy history piece that it is.

Edit: (03/06/20)

Nintendo Playstation has sold for $300,000 via auction, winning bidder unknown.
 
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OSHAN

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I'm sorry, but there's a sealed copy of Secret of Mana currently at $1250 up for auction. I'm not even sure what I'm apologizing about.
 
Video Games Are Dumb

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Feels fucking bad, dude. But this has always been the plan. And yes, I understand being in a museum, it would just sit there. But dang it, I want it to be protected.

Sidebar, I have held the console and controller with my own two hands! A total dream come true.
 
NoKisum

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Calling it now: Some Martin Shkreli type dude is gonna buy it at the highest price, complain it doesn't work with their latest copy of Madden or Call of Duty, and either chuck it in a bin to be forgotten about forever or put it in the trash.
 
udivision

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"Hello, my name is John Videogame and I don't work at Nintendo. Please allow me to purchase this product and I won't send it to Nintendo because I do not work there."
 
Curler

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I think the guy turned down some high private offers already though? Does this auction have a reserve, assuming it goes for lower of what is expected?
 
ascii42

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The article says there's no proprietary software known to have been developed for it, but man I'd love to see any prototype software for the thing.
 
ChaosXVI

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This dude is going to get a very sweet payday from this thing. My guess is between $250K to $500K.
 
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Lady Bow

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ascii42 said:
The article says there's no proprietary software known to have been developed for it, but man I'd love to see any prototype software for the thing.
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Some crafty folks already developed a homebrew game for it since the system's bios was thankfully dumped and put online. :)

www.digitaltrends.com

Scrapped 'Nintendo PlayStation' Gets First Homebrew Game | Digital Trends

Die-hard SNES fans have crafted a homebrew game compatible with Nintendo's unreleased SNES CD-ROM peripheral, the scrapped "Nintendo PlayStation."
www.digitaltrends.com www.digitaltrends.com
 
Bane

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I don't blame the dude one bit for getting paid, but I really, really hope the Video Game History Foundation or someone similar can get it.
 

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I get why they're selling it, but I hope it somehow ends up in a museum or something rather than someone's private collection.
 
zma1013

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Some Youtuber is going to get it and do one of those videos where they smash it with a bat for the lolz.
 
Vamphuntr

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Cactuar said:
This is probably some iteration of the system Squaresoft had in mind when they made that legendary Final Fantasy VI SGI demo.

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No that was for a N64/64DD hardware level. Apparently the Nintendo Playstation's CD-ROM was more or less only extra storage for the SNES (At least for the prototype as the BIOS for it was dumped already).
 

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If i had a fair shot i would blow up all my savings for it, too bad i'm too broke to afford it. You have no idea how much i dreamt of owning or even seeing this thing throughout the years.
 
Wulfric

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Is Heritage really the best venue for this item? Their fees are crazy (for both buyers and sellers).
 
jelly

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Surely Sony or someone has a few stashed away. Would you really destroy all those prototypes, is that a thing companies do?
 

Raccoon

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Wulfric said:
Is Heritage really the best venue for this item? Their fees are crazy (for both buyers and sellers).
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Yeah, on the one hand this doesn't seem like the sort of thing you'd put up on eBay. On the other hand, I recently saw an original Apple computer with original wooden case for literally like a million dollars on eBay, so maybe anything goes.

edit:
www.ebay.com

APPLE 1 Original 1976 Computer System designed and built by Apple. | eBay

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also anecdotally for the third or fourth picture, Steve Jobs's public height was 6'2" but Woz is 5'6", so something doesn't seem to add up there. It wouldn't be out of character for Jobs to exaggerate his height
 
Borman

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Feel free to send it to The Strong Museum if you win it.
 
neoak

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Cactuar said:
ascii42 said:
The article says there's no proprietary software known to have been developed for it, but man I'd love to see any prototype software for the thing.
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This is probably some iteration of the system Squaresoft had in mind when they made that legendary Final Fantasy VI SGI demo.

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No, it would be Secret of Mana

en.wikipedia.org

Super NES CD-ROM - Wikipedia

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The main game in development for the SNES-CD platform launch was Square's Secret of Mana, whose planned content was cut down to the size suitable for cartridge and released on that medium instead.[24][25]
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https://web.archive.org/web/20151004205410/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/pixels-and-bits/13744-Secret-of-Mana-Could-Have-Been-Great-With-Its-Missing-Content said:
Secret of Mana was originally designed to be released in North America via SNES CD add-on. Near the end of development, the deal between Nintendo and Sony fell through, with Sony deciding instead to develop the SNES CD into PlayStation. The designed game was salvaged by cutting a significant amount of data in order to make it fit onto an SNES cartridge. A large portion of the story's script was cut after a certain point, as well as possibly a few mini-games (the carousel, for example) and sprites (like the melting snowman.) Various different routes which would lead to different endings were removed and substituted with linear gameplay.

Designer Koichi Ishii estimated that roughly 40% of the game's content was cut, and producer Hiromichi Tanaka has stated that the original storyline had a much darker tone. Due to the drastic cuts, there is virtually zero character development present.
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Le Dude

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Figured this is as good as any of a place to ask: How would you go about selling a collector's item like?

I've got a pair of Labo Joy-Cons. From best I can find there's only about 50 in the world, and who knows how many of those are being used. I'd like to at least get something for them, but I don't really just want to put them up for any random person to buy. They're absolutely brand new. I don't really feel comfortable using them and I'm not the type of person to hoard them or display them. Right now they're just sitting in their box, inside a bag, inside a sealed bin. I thought about doing a giveaway of them so someone can enjoy them, but I dunno.
 
raketenrolf

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JamFlan said:
Figured this is as good as any of a place to ask: How would you go about selling a collector's item like?

I've got a pair of Labo Joy-Cons. From best I can find there's only about 50 in the world, and who knows how many of those are being used. I'd like to at least get something for them, but I don't really just want to put them up for any random person to buy. They're absolutely brand new. I don't really feel comfortable using them and I'm not the type of person to hoard them or display them. Right now they're just sitting in their box, inside a bag, inside a sealed bin. I thought about doing a giveaway of them so someone can enjoy them, but I dunno.
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You could probably sell them for a couple of hundred $ in a few years. I mean look at the prices of some of the japanese only Gamecube controllers.
 
Stanicle

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JamFlan said:
Figured this is as good as any of a place to ask: How would you go about selling a collector's item like?

I've got a pair of Labo Joy-Cons. From best I can find there's only about 50 in the world, and who knows how many of those are being used. I'd like to at least get something for them, but I don't really just want to put them up for any random person to buy. They're absolutely brand new. I don't really feel comfortable using them and I'm not the type of person to hoard them or display them. Right now they're just sitting in their box, inside a bag, inside a sealed bin. I thought about doing a giveaway of them so someone can enjoy them, but I dunno.
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metsallica

Hope i mentioned you right because i remember reading how you were searching for these in another thread.
 
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