Ben Heck tears down Nintendo Playstation Prototype
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[video=youtube;ug-CyGXMabg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug-CyGXMabg[/video]
Pretty neat stuff. They're gonna see if they can get it working in the second part.
It's really interesting that it just added a CD drive and RAM to cache stuff from said CD, rather than improving the capacity of the console itself.
[QUOTE=Cock Boner;50727014]It's really interesting that it just added a CD drive and RAM to cache stuff from said CD, rather than improving the capacity of the console itself.[/QUOTE]
Maybe they were planing to add extra hardware via the cartridge port, like the super fx.
[QUOTE=Cock Boner;50727014]It's really interesting that it just added a CD drive and RAM to cache stuff from said CD, rather than improving the capacity of the console itself.[/QUOTE]
im assuming that is because it was going to be just an addon, and this version we're seeing is a mesh of the two. i'm guessing nintendo wanted to have both on the market possibly, possibly even cheaper than the snes + cd drive, so people who didn't own an snes didn't have to pay upwards to $400 for the whole package.
it seems that this was during a time when sony wanted to release their own version of the playstation which would be compatable with snes games as well. nintendo let companies do that a lot, like when philips(?) created a gamecube tv. i'm pretty sure when the whole philips/sony/nintendo thing happened they made an agreement that allowed sony to use the snes hardware, but after that sony was like "lets just make our own thing without the snes slot." i.e. the psx we have today.
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most of the hardware seems to be in the cd drive and the cart
its crazy to think that this was nintendo's biggest fuck up because they ended up making their biggest competitor
I assume the expansion port was there for the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview"]Satellaview[/URL].
[QUOTE=J!NX;50727315]its crazy to think that this was nintendo's biggest fuck up because they ended up making their biggest competitor[/QUOTE]
Both companies were dicks to precisely an equal degree, from the stories I heard. Nintendo wanted to claim the entire project was their patent (and tearing it apart I can see there's more Sony stuff in it than Nintendo) and to take the deal in full Sony would have access to Nintendo's entire library of IPs.
Isn't Ben Heck the original 360 laptop guy?
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[QUOTE=J!NX;50727315]its crazy to think that this was nintendo's biggest fuck up because they ended up making their biggest competitor[/QUOTE]
Another fun fact: the Xbox existed because Sony fucked up :v:
[QUOTE=J!NX;50727315]its crazy to think that this was nintendo's biggest fuck up because they ended up making their biggest competitor[/QUOTE]
Guess it is better this way. The N64 era would have been quite different if Sony didn't enter with their own hardware.
[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;50727550]Both companies were dicks to precisely an equal degree, from the stories I heard. Nintendo wanted to claim the entire project was their patent (and tearing it apart I can see there's more Sony stuff in it than Nintendo) and to take the deal in full Sony would have access to Nintendo's entire library of IPs.[/QUOTE]
wouldn't surprise me since Nintendo has done bad shit in the past
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Another fun fact: the Xbox existed because Sony fucked up :v:[/QUOTE]
so basically if nintendo never did this project, Microsoft and Sony may not have entered the gaming scene and gaming itself would have been extremely different.
The project that changed gaming forever :v:
I like how the eject button locks when the system is on. A neat little feature.
That's nuts that it was just left in an abandoned office building
[QUOTE=J!NX;50727775]wouldn't surprise me since Nintendo has done bad shit in the past
so basically if nintendo never did this project, Microsoft and Sony may not have entered the gaming scene and gaming itself would have been extremely different.
The project that changed gaming forever :v:[/QUOTE]
While Xbox might not of existed, Microsoft was already pretty involved in PC gaming.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;50727862]I like how the eject button locks when the system is on. A neat little feature.[/QUOTE]
I've seen that on Sony products before. I have a portable MD-DATA unit that completely disables the eject slider when the disc is being accessed.
[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;50727655]Isn't Ben Heck the original 360 laptop guy?
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yes, it's where he started and has learned a lot from then as you can tell in the video.
Even though it still had a few bodge wires it does seem to me they really weren't that far off finished hardware at all. I can imagine Nintendo pulled the plug pretty late if it was in this state and why they turned it into a standalone product.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;50728086]Even though it still had a few bodge wires it does seem to me they really weren't that far off finished hardware at all. I can imagine Nintendo pulled the plug pretty late if it was in this state and why they turned it into a standalone product.[/QUOTE]
Like he pointed out for the unified unit they were looking at, either Sony of Nintendo would have paid a decent sum for tooling. You don't usually dedicate much money to tooling a prototype unless you're happy with the design and are aiming to get a close-to-production model ready.