SNES-CD, according to Wikipedia, refers to an unreleased video game media format and peripheral for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) that were planned to enhance the functionality of the cartridge-based SNES by adding support for higher-capacity compact discs.
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At the Consumer Electronics Show in 1991, Sony showcased its Nintendo-endorsed vision for a SNES-CD, which it branded with a “PlayStation” logo.
Check out the image pasted below and tell us what the future of gaming would have been if Nintendo and Sony would have actually worked out on the scrapped Play Station? One of his co-workers was a man named Olaf who used to work for Nintendo, and the box in question just so happened to contain the SNES PlayStation.
However, at that same event Nintendo announced that it was working with Dutch rival Philips instead, and the partnership was over.
What appears to be a prototype of the unreleased Sony-Nintendo Play Station console has surfaced, seemingly courtesy a colleague of Sony Interactive’s Olaf Olafsson.
The joint venture between Sony and Nintendo started in the late 1980s when CDs were growing in popularity for storing music.
In an interview with Polygon, Dan Diebold said he found the machine a couple of years ago in his dad’s attic. Apparently only 200 prototypes of the Play Station were made. It is rumored that Sony executive Ken Kutaragi went on to fund the PlayStation, without the help of Nintendo, and has developed into a leader in the console market.
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When Diebold posted images of the console on the Reddit forum, many doubted that the find was authentic – which prompted Diebold to publish a video showing the item more thoroughly. Suffice to say, if this Nintendo/Sony platform is the real McCoy and not some elaborate internet prank, then the owner of the hardware could be in for a major payday. And it’s only now that we’ve seen photos of the so-called “Nintendo PlayStation“, courtesy of a Redditor from Colorado. The console was widely successful commercially, with more than 100 million units sold worldwide, providing serious competition to Nintendo’s own N64 which only managed to sell 32.9 million units worldwide.
