A prototype of a never-before-produced video game console called ‘Nintendo Play Station’ was auctioned for 360,000 USD, equivalent to more than 8 billion VND, setting a new record for a record product.
Pop culture auction house Heritage Auctions offered the device, which was the product of a short-lived collaboration between Nintendo and Sony, as part of a series of auctions of prized video game items
Dating back to 1991, the device known as the ‘Nintendo Play Station’ actually marked Sony’s first attempt at creating a gaming hardware.
A falling out between Nintendo and Sony doomed the device’s launch, and cemented Sony’s determination to strike out on its own in the games industry with the 1994 launch of the real PlayStation.
This prototype was originally the property of former Sony Computer Entertainment America president Olaf Olafsson, and was later purchased at an estate auction by a man named Terry Diebold.
The auction for this Nintendo PlayStation has been going on since the beginning of the year.
After all, it was bought for 360,000 USD or more than 8 billion VND and today, thanks to Forbes, we know who bought it, why they bought it and what they plan to do with it.
Greg McLemore was the founder of Pets.com, a website from the late 1990s. Amazon bought half of the website and it, like other websites of that era, shut down in early 1990s.
The Nintendo Play Station is just the latest part of McLemore’s gaming history.
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