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The "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype will soon be put up for sale

Romain

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Cédric Biscay (of Shenmue III/MAGIC Monaco fame) tweeted that Terry Diebold, the owner of the "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype, told him that he intends to sell it. I wrote a little something about it there: http://www.gameblog.fr/news/86078-le-rarissime-prototype-nintendo-playstation-bientot-mis-en-v

I had to opportunity to put my hands on the console during last year's MAGIC and it truly is an awesome piece. I would love to put it in my collection but it probably is way out of my price range. I wonder how high the price will go.
 

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Jiminy said:
Wait, wait, back up.

"Nintendo Playstation"? Anyone got context here?
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Nintendo & Sony made a console together back in the 90's before Nintendo decided to jump ship and go with Phillips. This move led to Sony being furious and entering the game industry with the Sony PlayStation.
 
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Jiminy said:
Wait, wait, back up.

"Nintendo Playstation"? Anyone got context here?
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After the snes Nintendo tryed to make a CD console because of the Mega Drive CD and went to Sony for help. They didn't got along and it ended up in the creation of the playstation since Sony already had half of the work done
 
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Jiminy said:
Wait, wait, back up.

"Nintendo Playstation"? Anyone got context here?
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Its the snes with cd drive prototype that was found like 2 years ago
 

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I guess no one wants to book him/his console and finance the owner's trips around the world anymore. I mean at some point the novelty will wear off and people will lose interest.
 

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This thing will never sell, it is the single most valuable piece of video game paraphernalia in existence.

No auction site could ever host it (and no physical, non-underground, auction house could do so either; considering that it would legally classify as a stolen good) and no amount would ever be enough to buy it.

The only thing that could really happen to it (other than it staying in the owner's collection/getting stolen from him) is that it gets donated to a museum; where it belongs.
 
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Nuclear Muffin said:
It's bios was extracted, but no actual games have surfaced for it.

People have already made homebrew ROMS/ISOs that do run on it though.
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So the sheer existence of this thing is cool either way but it's a bummer that nothing has surfaced. Both the disc drive and the discs the games would've been printed on probably have pretty near term expiration dates to them so the more time moves forward the less likely we are to ever see that disc drive run a proper game on it.
mikehaggar said:
It's pretty wild how it doesn't say "Nintendo" anywhere... not even on the controller. No wonder they walked from the deal. Does this unit actually play SFC carts?
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I feel like in Japan that's a way less wild thing than it is here in the states.

Like the Twin Famicom Sharp I don't believe has the Nintendo logo anywhere on it. Even though the Panasonic Q does have the Nintendo GameCube logo on the front of system it's super tiny and I don't believe the Q's controller has any Nintendo anything on the top of it (though I could be wrong about that). Anyway, so it's not that shocking for Japan but if this thing had ever actually come to market I would've been shocked if the final US retail units didn't have a prominent Nintendo logo on it somewhere. That's just not how NOA rolls. lol
 
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Kingpin Rogers

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Looking forward to the video of some Twitch streamer I've never heard of with 10 million subs buying it and then microwaving it or destroying it someway for a joke.
 
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Wow!! This is impressive! I can't wait to see the price of that one. Maybe we will never know the price....
 

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Jiminy said:
Wait, wait, back up.

"Nintendo Playstation"? Anyone got context here?
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it was the result of a disastrous deal that would have lead to the end of nintendo as we know them. thankfully they got out of it, and it was beneficial for sony as well since it made them more eager to get into the market and now they're such a huge player in the industry.
 

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Platy said:
After the snes Nintendo tryed to make a CD console because of the Mega Drive CD and went to Sony for help. They didn't got along and it ended up in the creation of the playstation since Sony already had half of the work done
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The contract for a joint console was signed around the time Sony offered the sound chip for the SNES.
They didn't get along because Nintendo from the start didn't want to share their turf (software revenue) with other companies.
Nintendo sole interest in making the partnership with Philips was to screw the existing contract with Sony without infringing it.
 
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Celine said:
The contract for a joint console was signed around the time Sony offered the sound chip for the SNES.
They didn't get along because Nintendo from the start didn't want to share their turf (software revenue) with other companies.
Nintendo sole interest in making the partnership with Philips was to screw the existing contract with Sony without infringing it.
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My understanding is that Sony would have gotten 100% of the royalties for any games sold on CD. Which would have been a total disaster for Nintendo.
 

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My understanding is that Sony would have gotten 100% of the royalties for any games sold on CD. Which would have been a total disaster for Nintendo.
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that, as well as giving sony access to nintendo's IP for making CD games. essentially that deal would have lead to a super weak nintendo in a few years that would have just become a sony subsidiary.

Jegriva said:
They should make a bid together, then Nintendo should pull out immediately after.
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lmao
 
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if paintings from artists from 500 years ago can be sold for millions, why can't this sell for a few grand?
 

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Thanks everyone for the info about Nintendo PlayStation.

I had absolutely no idea. Crazy thing.

7 notifications made me freak out for a minute lol
 
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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

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Electronic Gaming Monthly #32 March 1992

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EGM June 1992

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Electronic Gaming Monthly - April 1993

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Then I found this article in Electronic Games magazine (the 1992 incarnation of EG) from their April 1993 issue.

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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.

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(#1) 1990
Sony/Nintendo "Super Disc" format - expansion CD-ROM and an all-in-one "Play Station" - no actual processor upgrade, other than RAM

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(#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'.

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ChaosXVI

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Man...if I had the cash I would so put in for this thing. I bet he could get $50,000 for it. Maybe $100,000.
 
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