We just posted an article about the Sony Super Nintendo CD-ROM prototype that was recently discovered.  Now, Sony president, Shuhei Yoshida, has released a comment on the prototype.  Currently, I am still standing by my feeling that this recent prototype discovery is a fake and this new information uncovered by the team at Engadget doesn’t change my opinion.  Though this new development is interesting, well, read it for yourself and make your own mind up.

According to Engadget, Shuhei Yoshida joined Sony around 1986, five years (give or take six months) prior to the unveiling of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System CD-ROM attachment.  Those old enough to remember those days will probably remember that Sony pretty much instantly canned this CD-ROM attachment thanks to Nintendo’s, um less than stellar, method of doing business (Nintendo dropped Sony and went with Philips for the vaporware CD-ROM attachment).  Ken Kutaragi’s division, at the time, was responsible for creating the Sony Playstation console (SNES attachment and, eventually the, standalone console we all know).

Quote from Engadget.com, “When I joined Ken Kutaragi’s team [in 1993], there was a system called ‘Play Station’ that had both Super Nintendo cartridge support and some disc game support. Actually, I played some games [on it] as well.”

It is interesting to note that even Shuhei-san refers to the original as the “Play Station” and not “Playstation” like that which is emblazoned all over this apparent prototype.  That is a concern as the name “Playstation” was not being used by Sony themselves according to their own FREAKING employees that were there.

Our friends over on Retro Game Network feel similarly about this SNES Playstation prototype discovery.  Head over there to read their opinion on things.

At this point, I will have to see that prototype fired up, boot and display a menu system of some sort before I will be even remotely convinced it is real.  The quote that is firing me up about this discovery is at the bottom of the Engadget article so click over and read it.  I am not pulling that quote because, well, I am trying to be respectful to those that have broken this story- give them some clicks folks.

Source: Engadget.com

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