Sometime back in July, a Nintendo PlayStation prototype made rounds on the Internet, catching the interest of gamers everywhere. The partnership resulted in the Nintendo PlayStation, a special prototype that combined the creations of both camps into one console.
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Not only is the Nintendo PlayStation prototype real, it may be just the second one ever produced.
Sony’s original plan was to brand the PlayStation for a SNES CD-ROM console that it had designed with Nintendo.
A Playstation 4 and its controller is on display at the Sony Playstation E3 2013 booth at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 11, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
The publication met up with the Diebolds in Hong Kong where they planned to attend a retro gaming expo. At the Chicago CES in 1991, Nintendo retaliated by surprisingly announcing its breakup with Sony in favor of Philips, Engadget wrote.
Dan Diebold – son of Terry, who unwittingly purchased the system when the company he worked at went bust – has now posted a video of the moment when the console was turned on for the first time.
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He surmised that the unit may have belonged to Olaf Olafsson, the former Chief Executive Officer of Sony Interactive Entertainment, which is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation. You can’t question it. It can’t be fake. Apparently that mysterious cartridge which came with the system doesn’t work, and the disc drive appears to be similarly non-functional, so at the moment it’s more or less an extremely limited-edition Super Famicom. The mixed console had an SNES cartridge slot as well as a CD drive, and many online users were skeptical of its authenticity.
