Cripes, That SNES PlayStation Prototype Is Up For Sale Now

I'll pay $10 for it. Not a penny more.

Placing a bid of $5000. Willing to go no more than $70k.

Huh..a time where Sony and Nintendo were actually partners.
Unlike today where it's Microsoft and Nintendo team up to kick Sony's butt.

Definitely will fetch $100,000 or more.

I hope it's not another one of those where the seller is just putting it out there to see how much he eventually can get for it.

@Shade_Koopa Not sure we can even talk about a partnership. It went belly up before it even started. I think it was around that time Nintendo got arrogant and told SquareSoft they weren't needed.

PlayStation + SNES
"Green Blood is Only the Beginning"(TM)

@Zelda1433,

God knows why anybody would pay that much, but of course it's all relative, if you are loaded what's a mere $100,000 to you, still more money than sense if you ask me.

@johnvboy It's the only available example of a piece of gaming history. Of course it is worth quite a bit to the right collector.

Personally I hope it's bought, and put in a museum.

@StevenG,

Totally get what you are saying, but I just don't see it's value myself, that's not to say that some collectors will go wild over this old overpriced piece of hardware, errrr I mean important piece of gaming history.

@Obito_Sigma,

Good luck I hope you win it.

I realize this is rare and stuff. But I would still rather pay for the unopened NES Super Mario Bros.

@stevenw45
It comes with a 3D version of Final Fantasy 6, and Resident Evil where all the guns are water pistols.
And "Mario CD" which is just Mario 3 with a FMV intro.

This thing represents a very important milestone in the history of gaming! Can’t imagine what it will sell for. (Or me bidding for it haha!)

Won't be bidding unless there's free carriage.

I've got one in my loft, is it worth anything?

I am assuming this comes with a copy of bomberman and a crappy old CRT Konka telly.

@Shade_Koopa Anytime Microsoft teams up with a company it is to consume them.

Does it come with a test demo CD to show the capabilities of the hardware? Or is it limited to playing SNES carts due to a lack of software? Unsure whether the cd unit also had hardware improvements (as per the mega cd) or is solely to allow SNES games to be played in the medium and benefit from the larger storage?

I don't really see the point of owning this considering the complete lack of games for it, but I imagine some rich collector might want it.

@rob7979 As I recall, it was determined that the system did not have any additional hardware enhancement(aside from sound), so it was more like the PC Engine CD than the Sega/Mega CD.

I'll buy it then take off that outdated CD Rom drive and put in a PS2 disc drive in there instead. Massive library boost if that ever happen, SNES, Game Boy, PS1 & PS2 games all-in-one. That would be the most badass hardware ever made.

I’m saying this will go for approximately 68 hundred gazillion billion.

@Averagewriter THAT woukd be cool. Then it needs ripping to the net and finishing, ready for release... In any way possible.

Plot twist: A "Will it blend?" type of youtube channel buys it...

@nab1 Dun dun dun

Is this the one they opened up and put a bunch of modern parts into?
If it is, sure it's working now, but it's not original anymore given it's been 'modded', even if the mods made it work.

That's the true Holy Grail of gaming.

So does this actually work at playing both SNES and PlayStation 1 games?

I think it would be cool for some third party to make a new version of it like those machines that play old Nintendo and Sega games and that kind of stuff (Retron 5, AVS, Analog Nt, Analog Super Nt, etc), but one that just plays SNES and PlayStation 1 games and really making it seem like a new model of this original and combination PlayStation system.

@Trajan While true, Nintendo is a rather big fish. Microsoft won't be able to devour them so easily.

@Rhaoulos Given in this day and age, Nintendo and Sony are competing with each other all the time, it surprising to see there were even talks of a partnership between the two. Especially given the conflicting policies.

@Averagewriter Ah, then it's kinda pointless other than being a bit of nostalgia. If it actually played games from both those systems properly though then it would just be super cool.

@Averagewriter Aye, but I'm interested in it actually being a cool fully working console that does what it says on the tin.

Just looking at that prototype, is it any wonder why Nintendo cancelled the deal? Sony is branded twice, and the Playstation name is there, meanwhile, where is the Nintendo logo? The only thing it plays is SNES games, and yet nothing indicates it's a Nintendo product. I bet they were terrified that if it failed, Sony could use it as leverage to gobble up Nintendo. People sometimes forget Nintendo is not a big company, and would not be able to compete with Sony if it were trying to enter the market now.

I'll give him a buck fiddy for it.

@JayJ Reportedly there are 50 North American N64DD drives out there owned by collectors, and those can literally do nothing except get turned on (if even that, did they need their own power supply too?)
No software for it, not even the like eight Japanese games would work due to Nintendo's idea of region-locking at the time being "make the media a different shape".