The Nintendo Play Station was part of a larger auction of comics and video games. McLeckie confirmed to Polygon that everything works after master modder Ben Heckendorn took the console apart and fixed the CD-ROM drive. No one’s ever found any games made specifically for the Nintendo Play Station, but it can play games. This is the only one that’s known to exist, saved from certain destruction by Olafsson. It’s just a little baffling to some to see Nintendo and Sony sharing the same console - and that it has the namesake of the PlayStation itself.”Īs the story goes, there were a couple hundred prototypes of the Super NES CD-ROM System - known colloquially as the SNES-CD or Nintendo Play Station - after a failed partnership between the two companies. “Nintendo and Sony are arguably two of the biggest competitors in video games today.
“It’s the first time this prototype has ever been offered at public auction before,” Heritage Auctions consignment director Valarie McLeckie told Polygon in December 2019. Diebold’s been shuttling it around to conventions for years before settling on Heritage Auctions to make the sale. That’s when Diebold acquired the super-rare console. The company went bankrupt and a whole bunch of stuff was privately auctioned off. Olafsson later worked at Advanta Corporation, where Diebold also worked. It was originally found by one Terry Diebold inside a box of stuff once owned by former Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Olaf Olafsson. The provenance of the rare console is fascinating. But on Friday, only a single bid was made, upping the price to $300,000. In 2019, the owner told Kotaku he’d turned down more than a million dollars from a person in Norway who wanted to buy the console. Interested parties have been bidding online since February.Ĭollectors expected the console to sell for a lot more than $300,000. With the buyer’s premium, it’ll cost $360,000. There’s one known Nintendo Play Station out in the world, and now it’s got a new owner, who offered $300,000 for the device.
0 kommentar(er)
