The never-before-seen images of Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) PlayStation prototypes has recently appeared.
The images indicated the gaming console prototypes that were created when failed partnership between Nintendo and Sony happened 25 years ago. It displayed specific design features like horizontal volume slider at the front and an assortment of outputs at the back.
Nintendo and Sony partnered to produce CD-ROM for the SNES, a cartridge-based console that hadn’t even been released yet. These cartridges were the popular format during the 80s, described as durable and really fast in loading up games. It can hold 10 times as much data as a 16-bit cart and cost only tenth of the price to manufacture. However, dispute on licensing became hinder to everything, with Nintendo shifting its partnership with Philips in summer 1991, VG247 reported.
The Redditor, Dan Diebold, who posted the images, claimed that his father worked as maintenance man in Sony Interactive Entertainment with Olaf Olafsson as the president and CEO of the company back then. When his father’s company went on a bankrupt, he went home with a box of the prototypes. Diebold found the SNES Playstation a couple of years ago in his father’s attic. Inside the box were gaming console, cartridge, a CD and a controller, but there was no power cord. He added that the contents of the cartridge and CD are still unknown, according to Tech Spot.
Olafsson was involved with SNES PlayStation deal and the production of first PlayStation console. Currently, he is a best-selling, award-winning author and the EVP of Time Warner.