Nintendo PlayStation prototype
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Title
Nintendo PlayStation prototype
Subject
Video game consoles
Description
The Nintendo PlayStation is a never-released prototype console developed jointly by Nintendo and Sony between 1988 and 1991, intended to serve as a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Following the collapse of the partnership, the device was abandoned and largely erased from both companies' official histories, existing for decades only through rumour and fragmented documentation before a surviving prototype was rediscovered.
Creator
Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Source
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_PlayStation
Date
1991
Rights
Disputed between Nintendo and Sony
Format
68 mm height
(approximated from SNES console)
(approximated from SNES console)
203 mm width
(approximated from SNES console)
(approximated from SNES console)
254 mm depth
(approximated from SNES console)
(approximated from SNES console)
2.12 lbs weight
(approximated from SNES console)
(approximated from SNES console)
Type
PhysicalObject
Citation
Nintendo Co., Ltd. and Sony Interactive Entertainment, “Nintendo PlayStation prototype,” Omeka, accessed June 19, 2026, https://omeka.ischool.utoronto.ca/items/show/602.