Nintendo Play Station prototype will go under the hammer in February
A prototype of the cult console Play Station recently wanted to buy for a million dollars. But the seller refused. An auction will be held in February, but the new starting price is still unknown.
The original PlayStation prototype, Super Nintendo, equipped with a CD-ROM drive and created as part of a collaboration between Sony and Nintendo, will be sold at Heritage in February 2020. This prefix allows you to play not only games on cartridges, but also running from a CD-ROM, reports Popular Mechanics.
According to the publication, disagreements between manufacturers led to the fact that this project was closed in 1991. But Sony still continued to develop its own console.
In 2009, this prototype was bought at a sale and was forgotten for a long time. In 2015, interest in him again resumed, causing a stir among collectors and connoisseurs of such gadgets. Since then, the owner has exhibited Nintendo Play Station at various events, and recently decided to sell it.
“I can't continue to lose money,” says Diebold Kotaku. - I invested a lot of money in traveling around exhibitions. Every trip we took cost us personal money. ”
According to the statement of the current owner of the prototype prefix, he refused the $ 1.2 million that he was offered in Norway.
Recall that recently, SplashData published the annual list of the worst passwords of the year, compiled by based on data leakage of Internet services. As in the previous six lists, the most popular password was 123456.
The original PlayStation prototype, Super Nintendo, equipped with a CD-ROM drive and created as part of a collaboration between Sony and Nintendo, will be sold at Heritage in February 2020. This prefix allows you to play not only games on cartridges, but also running from a CD-ROM, reports Popular Mechanics.
According to the publication, disagreements between manufacturers led to the fact that this project was closed in 1991. But Sony still continued to develop its own console.
In 2009, this prototype was bought at a sale and was forgotten for a long time. In 2015, interest in him again resumed, causing a stir among collectors and connoisseurs of such gadgets. Since then, the owner has exhibited Nintendo Play Station at various events, and recently decided to sell it.
“I can't continue to lose money,” says Diebold Kotaku. - I invested a lot of money in traveling around exhibitions. Every trip we took cost us personal money. ”
According to the statement of the current owner of the prototype prefix, he refused the $ 1.2 million that he was offered in Norway.
Recall that recently, SplashData published the annual list of the worst passwords of the year, compiled by based on data leakage of Internet services. As in the previous six lists, the most popular password was 123456.
