A Nintendo Play Station prototype console that never came to market, was purchased for $360,000 at an auction over the weekend.
A failed 1991 partnership between Sony and Nintendo led to 200 prototype consoles, which is essentially a Sony-branded Super Nintendo with a CD-ROM drive.
CNN reports, founder of Pets.com and Toys.com Greg McLemore had the winning bid. Other bidders included Palmer Luckey, CEO of Oculus VR.
The sold console is one of only 200 prototypes. Valerie McLeckie of Heritage Auctions, where the console was offered, tells CNN it’s believed the other 199 prototypes were destroyed when the Sony/Nintendo deal fell through.
No one’s ever found any games made specifically for the Nintendo Play Station, but it does have the ability to play games!
McLeckie confirmed that everything works after master modder Ben Heckendorn took the console apart and fixed the CD-ROM drive.
The prototype of the Nintendo Play Station was discovered by a man named Terry Diebold after rummaging through a box of items once owned by former Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Olaf Olafsson.
The console was one of many items that ended up at private auction, which is how Diebold acquired it.
