Nintendo Play Station prototype console sells at auction for over $300,000

Chary · Mar 6, 2020

DANTENDO said:
what you think ther gonna do hav a live stream seeing how many likes they can get by smashing it to pieces with an xbox controller lol

WILL IT BLEND? Starring the Nintendo Play Station

Deleted User · Mar 6, 2020

He was offered 1.2 million jeez now that is real story. Wonder if that is same buyer who snagged it. Still no matter how you cut it from a box in the attic to 300k nice haul! I gotta be honest being someone who plays i consider this worthless (no games). It would be interesting to follow the story on this device. Imagine if it eventually becomes like worthless?

MasterZoilus · Mar 6, 2020

Foxi4 said:
I actually expected it to sell for much, much more than that considering it's the only unit known to exist, and it's fully functional after refurbishing efforts of many individuals. Quite honestly it belongs in a museum.

nope its and electronic device, specifically gaming, making worth....far far less. Electronics/gaming stuff does NOT carry the same clout as antiques, cars, art..etc. I'm SHOCKED it went for that high. There has to be a huge demand from those with wealth to drive up the cost of something at auction. And that market isn't really there. Just cause you like games doesn't mean rich people do and most don't.

maybe another 30yrs from now MAYBE it might hit a million, which in today's money will actually be worth only around $600k or so.
auctions are all about supply and demand and that demand is determined by the rich only.

Reynardine · Mar 6, 2020

Ugh, it should have gone to a videogame museum. Not to keen on the machine disappearing into some rich snob's attic.

It's all fair play of course, but still.

DANTENDO · Mar 6, 2020

Chary said:
WILL IT BLEND? Starring the Nintendo Play Station

chary dont quite get what you mean lol

Chary · Mar 6, 2020

DANTENDO said:
chary dont quite get what you mean lol

Series of videos where some dudes put expensive electronics into a blender...to see if they blend.

Would be a horrifying end for the system lmao

b17bomber · Mar 6, 2020

lol they turned down 1.2 million at a museum to put it on auction. Whoops.

Foxi4 · Mar 6, 2020

MasterZoilus said:
nope its and electronic device, specifically gaming, making worth....far far less. Electronics/gaming stuff does NOT carry the same clout as antiques, cars, art..etc. I'm SHOCKED it went for that high. There has to be a huge demand from those with wealth to drive up the cost of something at auction. And that market isn't really there. Just cause you like games doesn't mean rich people do and most don't.

maybe another 30yrs from now MAYBE it might hit a million, which in today's money will actually be worth only around $600k or so.
auctions are all about supply and demand and that demand is determined by the rich only.

Oh please, last year the unit's owner turned down an offer of $1.2 million. It is a single, one of a kind unit - it's effectively priceless. In the world of antiques and collectibles value is entirely in the eyes of the beholder - an item is worth as much as people are willing to pay for it. Since people were willing to pay in excess of a million, $300k is an absolute bargain for the lucky buyer.

pedro702 · Mar 6, 2020

Foxi4 said:
I actually expected it to sell for much, much more than that considering it's the only unit known to exist, and it's fully functional after refurbishing efforts of many individuals. Quite honestly it belongs in a museum.

afaik no games exist for the disc drive so its fully functional as a snes cartridge reader only i guess unless you just want to see the bios, its kinda useless since no games afaik even exist in disc format for it.

Panzerfaust · Mar 6, 2020

The greedy owner declined 1kk+ last year and now he only gets 1/3 or even 1/4 of that offer...what an idiot

Deleted User · Mar 6, 2020

Ryccardo said:
A platform with less notable games than the WiiU, CD-i, 64DD, and Vita?

While this actual product does certainly have an interesting history... it's not a game of Action 52 which anyone can "play" to experience an overly ambitious failure, it's not a Digiblast which you (generic person) may have played years ago, it's not really anything likely to get any use...

How many could say they own a PlayStation-Nintendo console? Very few and that's what makes it so valuable.

Nintendo is the Apple of gaming, and with PS on top of it, it makes even better.

DANTENDO · Mar 6, 2020

Boesy said:
How many could say they own a PlayStation-Nintendo console? Very few and that's what makes it so valuable.

wil the owner of the 2nd nintendo playstation prototype pls stand up lol

Deleted User · Mar 6, 2020

DANTENDO said:
wil the owner of the 2nd nintendo playstation prototype pls stand up lol

Probably Nintendo.

I hate seeing what Nintendo has in their vault because I just wish I had it too.

Foxi4 · Mar 6, 2020

pedro702 said:
afaik no games exist for the disc drive so its fully functional as a snes cartridge reader only i guess unless you just want to see the bios, its kinda useless since no games afaik even exist in disc format for it.

That's... not exactly the point. The reason why someone would buy, say, a vintage car, and maintain it in perfect usable condition isn't to drive it to work every day. Even if there *was* usable CD-based software available for this thing, you would be a fool to use it for its intended purpose and not for demonstration purposes only - there's only one of those units in existence and that laser has only so much life in it before it stops reading altogether. Of course chances are you could find a *similar* lens from that time period and still refurbish it if needs be, but that's besides the point. The reason why people preserve pieces like this is because they're living bits of history, and this one in particular is an actual artifact. The fact that people managed to fix it up with basically no documentation available at all is remarkable in and out of itself.

JayMathis · Mar 6, 2020

So some person dropped 300k on a Playstation prototype. That and 4 quarters will get you on the bus.

I don't care what anyone says unless this person was Bill Gates (kinda doubt it since he probably backs Xbox) they're a moron.

DANTENDO · Mar 6, 2020

Boesy said:
Probably Nintendo.

I hate seeing what Nintendo has in their vault because I just wish I had it too.

Noone has one they were all blended to make the N64 and PS1

Plasmaster09 · Mar 6, 2020

JayMathis said:
So some person dropped 300k on a Playstation prototype. That and 4 quarters will get you on the bus.

I don't care what anyone says unless this person was Bill Gates (kinda doubt it since he probably backs Xbox) they're a moron.

It’s not just a PlayStation prototype. It’s a relic of the time Nintendo and Sony worked together on a project and is practically a precious artifact of the history of both companies.

MasterZoilus · Mar 6, 2020

Foxi4 said:
Oh please, last year the unit's owner turned down an offer of $1.2 million. It is a single, one of a kind unit - it's effectively priceless. In the world of antiques and collectibles value is entirely in the eyes of the beholder - an item is worth as much as people are willing to pay for it. Since people were willing to pay in excess of a million, $300k is an absolute bargain for the lucky buyer.

I think the "OH PLEASE" goes to you because you ASSume that the offer would have been paid!!?? Yeah I don't go by assumptions or alternative facts, I stick to the actual truth...thanks!

That whole explanation you gave about eye of the beholder is called demand...which is exactly what I said.

And there is NO way somebody would have paid $1.2mil for something worth $300k. Go learn how supply, demand and math work instead of imagining that you think you know how they do. And again unless the owner of this ACTUALLY got the $1.2mil in his hands, then it is NOT worth that. Even if he had agreed , what was the assurance the buyer would have paid??

Thats like an NFL team finishing the season 4 and 12 ...but the guys on the team say "nah we know we're better than that!" ...ummmm NO you're NOT. You suck, you're 4-12 and saying your better is a complete lie.

This is worth $300k period, because that's what it sold for. No it is NOT worth more simply because you say so. And if you're argument is that it is worth more based on a something that didn't actually happen, then you seriously need to go back to school...asap.

JayMathis · Mar 6, 2020

Plasmaster09 said:
It’s not just a PlayStation prototype. It’s a relic of the time Nintendo and Sony worked together on a project and is practically a precious artifact of the history of both companies.

And that doesn't change my mind one ounce people spend their money on stupid shit.

Plasmaster09 · Mar 6, 2020

JayMathis said:
And that doesn't change my mind one ounce people spend their money on stupid shit.

And this is not stupid shit, and if your mind won’t change that is exclusively your problem.

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