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The Nintendo PlayStation You Never Got To Play

By
Brian Ashcraft
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The first PlayStation 1 controllers looked silly. No wonder the world never got to use them.

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The world also never got to use this first PlayStation from 1991. A Sony produced SNES, it was the fruit of what was an unsuccessful failed Nintendo partnership.

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The other prototypes were Sony's own original PlayStation designs for hardware it planned to release. Note the "PowerStation" concept art.

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Sony finally released the PlayStation 1 in late 1994 in Japan. A worldwide release followed in 1995.

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Rare Sony PlayStation Images [GamingBolt via Inside Games]