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[DonkeyPunchJr]

I hear he also has the only known copy of Maru Island, the Squaresoft project that was canceled and eventually evolved into Secret of Mana + Chrono Trigger

 

[Team Andromeda]

Can this end the SEGA bullshit now, no doubt ... System 16 will still praise the lying prick that is Tom, I do miss that place mind...

 

[Deerock71]

 

[No BBC=Anger]

Ken is hoarding happiness in his closet. Share the happiness Ken. We also want to fondle stuff from your closet.

 

[Horseganador]

What visionaries Nintendo and then Sega were, rejecting Playstation and Ken Kutaragi's vision, only to be humiliated in the market by it.

 

[DryvBy]

I want to play the God of Fireballs prototype, the one where Kratos goes "It'sa me, boy! Kratos!"

 

[FrankWza]

 

[kiphalfton]

Acting all nonchalant about having something super rare that's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in his closet.

 

[Judge Magister]

Play/Pause button cap is missing..

 

[poppabk]

Can they add it to the PS2 sales total?

 

[Nemesisuuu]

So he bought it for 300 000 $?

 

[Drell]

I'd like to see another homebrew for this "Console". Super boss gaiden is funny but the SNES and CD version are exactly the same.

 

[SweetTooth]

This guy single handedly humbled Nintendo and put them in their place first try

 

[Pasta la Vista]

I love it, honestly wish Nintendo didn't abandon it.

 

[MayauMiao]

So he bought it for 300 000 $?

He probably made it himself.

 

[Spukc]

Damn it even comes with a dongle

 

[Deerock71]

What visionaries Nintendo and then Sega were, rejecting Playstation and Ken Kutaragi's vision, only to be humiliated in the market by it.

Nintendo's still running the marathon, chaffed nipples and all.

 

[user friendly]

Ken's looking great!

 

[Alebrije]

surprising it has not turned yellow yet.

It should be on a museum or other place.

 

[PeteBull]

Ken is hoarding happiness in his closet. Share the happiness Ken. We also want to fondle stuff from your closet.

 

[Onironauta]

So it was a SNES with a CD player? I thought it was supposed to be a different console

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

One of the other prototype's needed some fixes to work. I wonder if his is working.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

 

[peish]

Ken is a beast

 

[ReyBrujo]

What visionaries Nintendo and then Sega were, rejecting Playstation and Ken Kutaragi's vision, only to be humiliated in the market by it.

That was not the reason but whatever.

 

[Drell]

What visionaries Nintendo and then Sega were, rejecting Playstation and Ken Kutaragi's vision, only to be humiliated in the market by it.

History revealed that Sony had no intention to just stay Nintendo partners, I'm not saying Nintendo are nice guys but that add on/console would only have benefited Sony and they would've made the "PS2" alone with the same kind of huge success anyway. Nintendo was stupid to not try their chance harder with Phillips and to double down on expensive but tiny cartridges for the Nintendo 64 while not try to at least include the 64DD disks as the base medium for the console.

As for Sega, I wonder what terms Sony offered them, but Sega of Japan were too arrogants at least twice: First when they laughed at Sony and then when they refused the deal for the Sillicon Graphics tech for the Saturn.

 

[ReyBrujo]

One of the other prototype's needed some fixes to work. I wonder if his is working.

That one had the CD circuit disabled with bogs wires because of Sony IP. I wonder if Ken's got the SNES circuit disabled for the same reason...

 

[Sooner]

It's also in much better condition than the one that sould for several hundred thousands dollars.

 

[mckmas8808]

This is INSANE! So nice.

 

[Lunarorbit]

That was not the reason but whatever.

Nintendo betrayed Sony in there eyes. Sony was completely rip shit cause Nintendo fought them over music rights and then canceled the deal.

It's 100% why Sony launched into Playstation full steam.

 

[GigaBowser]

ssssooooooo glad this didnt harpen switch would never become #1 zelda would be walk and talk crud and be mario would become gay

 

[mopspear]

Get Evan Amos on the horn now!

 

[ReyBrujo]

Nintendo betrayed Sony in there eyes. Sony was completely rip shit cause Nintendo fought them over music rights and then canceled the deal.

It's 100% why Sony launched into Playstation full steam.

But the reason for betraying Sony was the draconian royalties. Sony would get 100% of the CD royalties, that's if Nintendo launched a Super Mario PS in CD they would have to pay to Sony for the royalties and the manufacturing. Nintendo would keep royalties for the cartridge sales only. So for Sony it was the same launching a Nintendo PlayStation or the PlayStation 1, they would collect all the royalties regardless.

 

[cartman414]

What visionaries Nintendo and then Sega were, rejecting Playstation and Ken Kutaragi's vision, only to be humiliated in the market by it.

Sony intended to basically colonize Nintendo.

The Weird History Of The Super NES CD-ROM, Nintendo's Most Notorious Vaporware

Nintendo never released a CD-ROM gaming system. But for a while in the early 1990s, it flirted with the idea. That protracted will-they-won’t-they romance produced pages of breathless gossip columns in video game magazines, a mountain of vaporware, some terrible Zelda games, and one priceless...

kotaku.com

 

[cartman414]

This guy single handedly humbled Nintendo and put them in their place first try

I love it, honestly wish Nintendo didn't abandon it.

Nintendo betrayed Sony in there eyes. Sony was completely rip shit cause Nintendo fought them over music rights and then canceled the deal.

It's 100% why Sony launched into Playstation full steam.

Sony fully intended on pulling a Daniel Plainview on Nintendo first.

History revealed that Sony had no intention to just stay Nintendo partners, I'm not saying Nintendo are nice guys but that add on/console would only have benefited Sony and they would've made the "PS2" alone with the same kind of huge success anyway. Nintendo was stupid to not try their chance harder with Phillips and to double down on expensive but tiny cartridges for the Nintendo 64 while not try to at least include the 64DD disks as the base medium for the console.

As for Sega, I wonder what terms Sony offered them, but Sega of Japan were too arrogants at least twice: First when they laughed at Sony and then when they refused the deal for the Sillicon Graphics tech for the Saturn.

But the reason for betraying Sony was the draconian royalties. Sony would get 100% of the CD royalties, that's if Nintendo launched a Super Mario PS in CD they would have to pay to Sony for the royalties and the manufacturing. Nintendo would keep royalties for the cartridge sales only. So for Sony it was the same launching a Nintendo PlayStation or the PlayStation 1, they would collect all the royalties regardless.

Exactly. It wasn't just the royalties but also final approval.

Sony had the added motive of the Super CD as another medium to profit off of (see: UMD, MiniDisc, etc.), as they launched an e-book reader in 1990 that used the discs.

The Weird History Of The Super NES CD-ROM, Nintendo's Most Notorious Vaporware

Nintendo never released a CD-ROM gaming system. But for a while in the early 1990s, it flirted with the idea. That protracted will-they-won’t-they romance produced pages of breathless gossip columns in video game magazines, a mountain of vaporware, some terrible Zelda games, and one priceless...

kotaku.com

 

[Katatonic]

A Nintendo/Sony partnership would give way to the true golden age.