Console Collaboration is Finally Operational
A collaborative console from the early 1990’s, originally called the Nintendo PlayStation, has long been forgotten, but thanks to a modder, it now works! This is exciting news for gamers who are fans of both Sony and Nintendo!
This Nintendo PlayStation was a collaboration between Sony and Nintendo in 1991, where the prototype was made to play both cartridge and disc games, however the deal between the two companies went south quickly and something that could have been a huge game-changer never saw the light of day. The console was to be a CD-ROM enhanced version of the popular SNES, and the system was even officially unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1991. Unfortunately Nintendo backed out the arrangement at the very same event, and announced that they were entering a partnership with Philips, which resulted in the famous Philips CD-i.
At this point, the 200 existing prototypes for the Nintendo PlayStation were destroyed and Sony went on to release a similar console under the same name 3 years later. At least one of these prototypes survived all of these years, as a Reddit user posted that they found one in 2015.
Benjamin Heckendorn, a tech buff, recently uploaded a video on his Youtube channel showing the process he took to fix the console. Initially this prototype did not have a working disc drive, but it did power on. That was all Heckendorn needed to fix the console’s disc drive, and get it to work fully. Check out the video below, where he shows off the prototype in action.