Now's your chance to own the collab console that never made it to market.
Nintendo-PlayStation Prototype Is Currently Auctioning for $350K : Read more
Nintendo-PlayStation Prototype Is Currently Auctioning for $350K : Read more
350k is not a lot for a billionaire.I don't understand why anyone would pay so much. Even for a billionaire, that's not cheap.
If by "destroyed" they mean "stored in a warehouse somewhere" then sure. : P If I had to guess, both Nintendo and Sony probably have some of these things floating around.Nintendo and Sony allegedly produced 200 units, which Heritage Auctions claimed have all been destroyed except for the one on auction.
Are Super Nintendos still working? I don't see why it would be surprising that a console from the early 90s that likely saw minimal use would still be functional. Though technically, the CD drive wasn't working when the device was acquired a decade ago, and did need some repairs, which is pointed out in the listing.It's incredible that the Super NES CD-ROM prototype is still working after so many years.
Depends on priorities I guess. While I agree it's way too much it would be interesting to own and I think for the people bidding on it even the 370K is probably a drop in the bucket for them. For me though 370K is a Kawasaki H2, new house and a bit of partying/traveling for a few years.😂. Man some moron is going waste a lot of money. I would buy a super car instead
He changed 3 capacitors,it's not brain surgery...Original parts? I'd be hesitant to spend that kind of money (if I could) by having someone neither from Nintendo or Sony "repairing" it.
Usually they only make that many prototypes if they are so far along that they are ready to send them out to developers and the media, if they end up not sending them away they are not going to keep them,storage space is expensive and they make a lot of prototypes all of the time, they would run out of space at some point.@cryoburner, it makes zero sense to me why they would destroy them and yea I could imagine someone holding onto the other ones for future auctions...at least for close to that kind of cash.
If it's only a couple-hundred of them, that could likely fit on a single pallet. Sure, it's possible that most of them could have been destroyed, but at the very least, I'm sure they would have held onto a handful of them.storage space is expensive and they make a lot of prototypes all of the time, they would run out of space at some point.
I know they said Jeff Bezos just paid $165M for a house and that it's like paying $75 for a house to the average American. So to him, this would be like paying 12 cents for the console.😂. Man some moron is going waste a lot of money. I would buy a super car instead
If you have $350k to consider blowing on this console, you have enough money for both.😂. Man some moron is going waste a lot of money. I would buy a super car instead
It's incredible that the Super NES CD-ROM prototype is still working after so many years. The auction page claims the console was discovered in 2009 and that the CD-ROM was non-functional at the time. However YouTuber Benjamin Heckendorn reportedly repaired it.
If it were a fake, it would have likely taken a lot of effort to make. One would have needed to manufacture custom-molded parts, custom circuit boards, custom ROM software to make it all work together, and expose the completed device to UV light for a while to yellow the plastic. Judging by this teardown video, it certainly looks like a legitimate device manufactured by Sony, and was probably nearly a consumer-ready design, albeit with the circuit boards still requiring some revisions...Lol 350k for a fake hardware xD. No one seem disturb that no one ever confirm that the true prototype, from all the people who has worked on this thing back in 9x's not one of them says : "Well done it's the real prototype xD"
People are stupid...
I didn't say it was a lot, I said it was not cheap. Meaning, it's an amount of money that you don't spend on a whim.350k is not a lot for a billionaire.
Whoever is buying it probably already has all the supercars they want (and $$$ left to buy more).😂. Man some moron is going waste a lot of money. I would buy a super car instead
He changed 3 capacitors,it's not brain surgery...
Capacitors have to be changed every decade or so if you want to keep using electronics, even collectors don't care about that.
Usually they only make that many prototypes if they are so far along that they are ready to send them out to developers and the media, if they end up not sending them away they are not going to keep them,storage space is expensive and they make a lot of prototypes all of the time, they would run out of space at some point.
It's also pointless for them to disassemble them for parts because they wouldn't use used parts for anything anyway.
Someone keeping one as a momentum is the only way something like this becomes possible.
You can check out the dig where they buried tons of ET cartridges because it was cheaper than doing anything else with them.