The Only Nintendo PlayStation Was Sold at $360,000

The Nintendo PlayStation was a affair back in the 1980s. Sony's venture to enter the gaming marketplace allowed the collaboration between the ii gaming giants and the Nintendo PlayStation was born. And the simply working prototype of the console was recently sold at a whopping cost of $360,000!

The Nintendo PlayStation was the starting time gaming console that could load games from SNES (Super Nintendo Amusement System) cartridges as well as gaming discs. Yet, this one-of-a-kind gaming console of the early days did not make information technology to the consumers as the partnership between Sony and Nintendo did not end well.

Still, Sony reportedly made around 200 image versions of the console before the collaboration came to an cease. I of these prototypes was in the possession of Olaf Olafsson, 1 of the founding member of Sony Interactive Pictures. Later on the man went on to piece of work with Advanta. However, when he left Advanta to bring together Time Warner, the former company went bankrupt and sold every item in its role at an auction and that is where a human being named Terry Diebold got his easily on this but working Nintendo PlayStation.

Diebold toured many gaming expos with the gaming console and created a lot of hype around it. At a bespeak of time, the founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey conveyed about his desire to get this retro gaming console.

Well, final I wrote near this one, it was in the sale carrying a bid of $350,000 (~Rs 2,60,06,400) at the Heritage Auction website. However, the bid closed at $360,000 (~Rs 2,67,49,440) recently and this novel gaming console became one of the highest-priced gaming sets in the world!