The Nintendo PlayStation is a bad point in the history of both Nintendo and Sony.

Originally, Sony was working on a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES (SEGA had something similar for its Mega Drive/Genesis, called SEGA CD/Mega CD), but there were 200 console prototypes made, too. These prototypes had both a SNES (Super Famicom) cartridge slot and a CD-ROM drive. (One of these is what the bidding is for.) The two companies’ relationship has soured, and Nintendo moved towards Philips (which also ended badly; this is why Philips CD-i had some Nintendo IPs). Sony, driven by revenge, entered the gaming industry on its own with the PlayStation. The rest is history.

One of the Nintendo PlayStation prototypes showed up in 2015.

The biggest bid is coming from someone many of us know from the gaming industry…

It’s the only functional model, which is now being put up for bidding by Heritage Auctions with permission by Terry Diebold – he got the console from a friend who formerly worked at Nintendo. The biggest bid is now at 350 thousand dollars. It’s by Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus. If the bidding stops at this amount, he will have to pay 420 grand to receive the Nintendo PlayStation.

Luckey wrote about it on Twitter: „Because I have the largest game console collection, and I am on a quest to digitize and preserve the history of physical videogames. Perfect VR will ensure the original experience lives on forever, but we need to keep these things alive and functional in the meanwhile.”

The auction will end on March 6, and it will be live-streamed. „At one time, this particular unit was owned by the founder, first president, and first chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. Olaf Olafsson. Olaf eventually left Sony to join Advanta Corporation and became its president in 1998. A little over a year later, Olaf left Advanta to join Time Warner but he left his Nintendo PlayStation prototype behind at Advanta,” wrote Heritage Auctions.

We agree with Luckey’s thoughts: video game history has to be preserved.

Source: PSL

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