The only copy of the console developed by Nintendo and Sony together has gone around the world and its owner seeks more than 1.2 million dollars.
Many do not know, but in the early nineties, before launching what we know today as the original PlayStation, Sony reached a collaboration agreement with Nintendo and was working on a console that started from the hardware of SNES (Super Nintendo) and it added to a CD-ROM. Call Nintendo Play Station, only 200 prototypes of the machine were made, which would never come to light because the pact between the two companies was broken and Sony ended up taking out its own platform independently. The only one of those prototypes that was not destroyed will go on auction in February 2020 and everything indicates that it will break any record set by articles in this sector. In fact, its owner, Terry Diebold, has already rejected more than a million dollars in his day for her.
The console dates from 1991 and was bought by Diebold from a former Sony executive who, without knowing its importance, practically gave it away in 2015 as part of a batch of objects from his past. Diebold did not even buy the pack for her and discarded it and left it in her attic, where years later and as if it were Jumanji, her son found her and identified her. He soon explained to his father the value of the machine and since then, father and son have traveled all over the world taking the console to exhibitions, appraisers and potential buyers. Telling the story of this Nintendo Play Station and raising its reputation as video game collectors. But that has to end. "I can't keep losing money," Diebold acknowledged. "I've spent a lot on travel and I haven't taken anything out of it."
For the record
The auction house that the Diebold family will be worth, Heritage Auctions, is known among collectors in the sector for selling original copies of The Legend of Zelda and Bubble Bobble for almost $ 20,000 each, or a Donkey Kong 3 that arrived at $ 30,000. The chain record is in a Mega Man original that reached $ 75,000. Already outside Heritage there is evidence of Super Mario Bros. auctions for $ 140,608 and even a private collection of 40 games that sold for a million and a half dollars.
Precisely a similar figure is what Terry Diebold rejected at the beginning of the year. He refused to sell for 1.2 million dollars from Norway because, as he has commented to Kotaku, with that amount, once he pays taxes, settle his debts and divide everything halfway with his son, "we will practically run out of nothing." What number will keep in mind the good of Terry? Will you reach it? In a few months we will find out.
