“Nintendo PlayStation”, the legendary canceled console, has surfaced again! Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida recently recalled the Sony x Nintendo collaboration console that never came out, and was even more shocked: Sony had almost completed a game back then, and it was even running normally! Does this mean that this “lost game” that has never been exposed may still be hidden in Sony’s warehouse?
A mysterious game for the Nintendo PlayStation
In an interview with MinnMax, Shuhei Yoshida talked about his early experience at Sony and recalled the days when he worked with Ken Kutaragi, the “father of PlayStation.” He joined Sony in February 1993, when the team was developing the original PlayStation. But what’s even more amazing is that the team also has a working prototype of a Nintendo PlayStation in-house!
“The first thing anyone who joins the Kutaragi team is taken to see the Nintendo PlayStation prototype, which is already working.”
What’s more, at that time, there was almost a completed game on this console! Shuhei Yoshida recalled that he personally played this game on the day he joined the company!
What exactly is this game? He described it as similar to “Silpheed” at the time, a space shooter that read instant material from a CD, but he hadI can’t remember which studio developed it, or even whether it was from Japan or the United States.。
However, does this game really still exist? Yoshida gave an intriguing answer:
“I wouldn’t be surprised, after all it’s on a CD…so…yeah.”
Does this mean that this “almost complete” game may still be hiding in Sony’s warehouse, waiting to be dug out one day?
What the heck is the Nintendo PlayStation?
The Nintendo PlayStation is one of the most famous “unborn consoles” in the history of gaming. This prototype represents a parallel time and space in which Nintendo and Sony teamed up to dominate the gaming market. However, this cooperation collapsed due to copyright and profit distribution issues. Nintendo eventually chose to cooperate with Philips, while Sony went it alone and launched its own PlayStation, which has since changed the game industry.
Today, the Nintendo PlayStation prototype is a dream collector’s item and has even been sold at auction for $360,000!
Shuhei Yoshida’s speech this time has undoubtedly once again ignited the curiosity of players – will this “almost completed” Nintendo PlayStation game one day be able to miraculously see the light of day again like “Star Fox 2” after many years?
Could this lost burned CD still be lying quietly in a corner of a Sony warehouse, waiting for game historians to unearth it?