Likely not a hoax: Nintendo/Sony Playstation prototype found!

[Kitsunexus]

I don't think this is a hoax, ASSEMbler doesn't do that childish SonicCult-esque shit.

Anyway, this is a GREAT day in gaming history, there are actually 2 PROTOTYPES!:

http://assemblergames.com/wiki/dogatemysnes/pmwiki.php?n=Topics.SNES-CD-ROM

This one IS real also, according to GameRave, but he has no information on it:

[grahf]

Pretty cool. Oh what could have been.

[FM-77]

Pretty cool. Oh what could have been.

Yeah. It could have been a Playstation. Oh wait, they DID make a Playstation. Nothing changed.

[SignOfZeta]

Yeah. It could have been a Playstation. Oh wait, they DID make a Playstation. Nothing changed.

That is so not true. A SNES with CDROM would have been so great. The actual Playstation that came to be was pretty nice, I guess, but it has hardly a single SNES-like game to its credit.

[termis]

Yeah, a SNES with a CD-ROM add-on would've been bitchin'. 

[grahf]

Pretty cool. Oh what could have been.

Yeah. It could have been a Playstation. Oh wait, they DID make a Playstation. Nothing changed.

For better or worse, the playstation pretty much sealed the deal in ushering in the "3d age" of consoles. It was bound to happen eventually in any case, but a SNES w/ cd addon would have given us a couple more fantastic 2d games. (as well as a bunch of starfox-esque 3d ones).

[Keranu]

Awesome, awesome stuff! I'll have to read more of that article later.

[GUTS]

Yeah. It could have been a Playstation. Oh wait, they DID make a Playstation. Nothing changed.

That is so not true. A SNES with CDROM would have been so great. The actual Playstation that came to be was pretty nice, I guess, but it has hardly a single SNES-like game to its credit.

HAHA!  Awesome man, thanks for the laughs.  Unless you were serious, in which I would point out that the Playstation's library completely and utterly slaughters the SNES's library in every category except Mario games.

[Keranu]

HAHA! OH MY GOD! GUTS IS LAUGHING AT SOMEONE FOR HAVING A DIFFERENT OPINION AS USUAL! Strangely enough there were no racist Mexican comments in there either!

[Turbo D]

Great work Kitsune  I had a feeling that there was another prototype. This one is even cooler! haha, that nintendo sure screwed itself when it went with the cd-i instead of the playstation 

[GUTS]

Keranu people around here are big boys, they can stick up for themselves.

[Tatsujin]

concerning the 2nd proto, it looks really phoney to me. there's super famicon as well as playstation written on it, plus sony but no nintendo. owns a SFC-cart port and no CD? or where ist the cd- port? and then the backpanel?!? ey c'mon. that's a hoax for sure.

[Kitsunexus]

concerning the 2nd proto, it looks really phoney to me. there's super famicon as well as playstation written on it, plus sony but no nintendo. owns a SFC-cart port and no CD? or where ist the cd- port? and then the backpanel?!? ey c'mon. that's a hoax for sure.

At first it seems like that,  but there really are some logical explanations. Lemme break this down for you.

1. Much like the Panasonic Q isn't the Panasonic Nintendo Gamecube Q, this system would be the Sony Superfamicom Playstation. Nintendo licensed the hardware to Sony for them to manufacture.

2. The CD drive is external because this is a proto. See the cable in the pic of the backside? That's a serial cable designed for hooking up to a development drive. The box that you are seeing simply houses the Super Famicom and the Playstation internals.

[nodtveidt]

It may be a hoax, it may not be a hoax. The fact that no prototype pictures have shown up until now is highly suspect though, because history records that no prototype was ever even created...the project never got off the developer's drawing table because a final design could never be decided upon. Though both companies certainly had money to sink into frivolous prototypes, knowing the financial policies of both companies tells me immediately that such a prototype was unlikely to be created until a final design decision was made.

Knowing all of this information, I am leaning towards "hoax". But there is also the possibility that the knowledge we have available to us as the public might be wrong...it wouldn't be the first time and it won't be the last time, so it could also be legitimate. Still though, the fact that no prototype shots have ever appeared until now, 15+ years after the project was abandoned...well...

[Kitsunexus]

But there is also the possibility that the knowledge we have available to us as the public might be wrong...it wouldn't be the first time and it won't be the last time, so it could also be legitimate.

That's what I'd LIKE to think. The sources that could provide said information (Nintendo and Sony) have a grudge against one another. Plus it's the Philips/Nintendo deal that we know never made it to proto form, not Sony.

This is why I said "likely not a hoax", because I don't know for sure and I'm not sure we ever will. But I do know that if this IS real, it's insanely cool.