Gaming world stunned after man finds ultra-rare ‘Nintendo Playstation’

Gaming world stunned after man finds ultra-rare ‘Nintendo Playstation’

There are just a handful in existence, and a man has apparently found a prototype for a partnership between Nintendo and Sony to build the first ever Playstation.

A man has discovered what appears to be an ultra-rare prototype of the Nintendo-Sony Playstation and posted pictures of it online, sending the gaming world into a frenzy.

The prototype was found in a box of junk in his attic, and the uploader, Dan Diebold, indicated that his father worked for his own company and worked with Nintendo, and when his own company became bankrupt, the Playstation was found in a box of junk that was supposed to be thrown out, according to a Register report.

Just a handful of these consoles were made back in the early 1990s, when Sony announced in 1991 that it was partnering with Nintendo to develop the PlayStation, a development that would change the gaming world forever.

As we known now, Nintendo eventually dropped out of that agreement, so Sony forged ahead on its own and built the console.

Diebold mentioned in the video that his dad worked with a guy named Olaf, which further fueled the excitement of gamers, as Olaf could be former Sony Interactive Entertainment boss Olaf Olafsson.

Back in 1991 the video game landscape was quite different than it is today: Nintendo ruled the market, and Sega was pretty much the only competition.

It was in the late 1980s when Nintendo commissioned Sony to develop a CD-ROM for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), which had not been released yet. Up until then, the consoles had used cartridges and not CDs. The problem is that cartridges could hold only a fraction of the data CDs could hold, which limited their growth potential.

But Nintendo eventually bowed out, and Sony continued to develop its CD-based console, which would ultimately become the PlayStation, released in 1994. Only 200 prototype SNES-CD systems were ever made, it is believed.

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