Sebastian Krauss still, it's funny because if the seller made that up to drive up the price, greed bit his butt. He ended up with way less money than he expected
Quoting the owner speaking to Kotaku: “We turned down 1.2 million from someone in Norway,” Diebold said. He said that after paying taxes on that amount, splitting the remainder 50-50 with his son, and paying off all his outstanding debts, he “will pretty much end up with nothing.”
No it doesn't it belongs in the trash it's a piece of junk with crapoy games on it completely fuckin stupid that someone would waste thousands on junk like dis
@@blackhairedbandit It's a gem because it's a product that could have brought two of the biggest gaming companies out there together. Of course both went on to be just fine on their own but still. It's one of those What if's that people still talk about.
If that buyer actually starts a museum (or partners with one), I will have the utmost respect for him. We need more people who love sharing experiences!
For as much as you've covered the story of this system, and how much you like to do teardowns, I'm really surprised you've never mentioned that Ben Heck did a teardown and repair on that exact unit to get it working.
What something is "worth" and the amount you have in your wallet are two very different things. A $1.2 million offer means nothing unless that money is sitting on the table in front of you. Anything before that is just pretend.
"asian influence on the video game industry" Lmfao, as if Japan wasn't the single reason the industry even exists and made up almost the entirety of it for multiple decades.
@@t.fernbach602 Exactly. Seems pretty damn sketchy to treat them like an afterthought. Like, Sony and Nintendo, both the companies in question, are Japanese even lmao. Asia's influence on the industry is all of it, basically.
Pichuscute I think his point is that “asian” is a BS label since it was only Japan. You wouldn’t say “North American” game developers which lumps in Mexico and Canada when really you’re talking about America
Museum worker here: There are museums out there with lots of usable computers and playable video games. But they are constantly needing repair. Because anything the public can touch, the public will break. In almost all cases it's not because they intend to, but because things wear out with use. There's even those people with no self-awareness, no understanding of boundaries, or pure malevolence who will cross any boundary you put out to play with artifacts they can't immediately touch. I've had the public try to open locked vitrines to try to touch things, and they usually genuinely have no idea that THEY shouldn't touch things. Other people obviously shouldn't touch, but they aren't aware that the same rules apply to them. I've had former auto plant workers break into cars on display but "it's OK, man, I built that car." The pure malevolence is usually teenagers in groups; individually, they're perfectly fine. But a group is deadly.
Matthew _ he never wanted more. He wanted to just travel around showing it off and becoming famous. I mean he had *trips paid for him* and that is fun.
He took no loss, paid something like 70 bucks for it. Million or not, if he had only gotten 500 dollars for it, it would have been a win for him. 300+k is just icing.
I remember using onlive for the first time on my phone. I was at church playing saints row 3 and I had the Sony Ericsson Xperia play. It played good but it was blurry because of the internet there.
Partnering with existing museums is a better bet. As car, music, and sports museums show- making a niche museum like that get off the ground and work sustainably is incredibly difficult to do
Still glad I got a chance to play the thing at SRGE before it ended up under glass. If it does go in a museum I tend to doubt it will be in an interactive display.
As someone who did go to the Franklin Institute for the video game exhibit that happened a couple years back I must say it was quite disappointing in practice as it felt like very little was actually provided in terms of historical, textual information about the games, designers, etc and it felt more like a video game playground for kids who were yanking the chair of the Outrun, sit-down variant they had rather than actually providing an in-depth look at gaming's history. Although awesome conceptually, I do think that museums should be more text based or at least up the age restriction to ensure that guests are not abusing the equipment or at least parents should better monitor their children (which is very unlikely, unfortunately). But overall, would love to see gaming to be featured more in museums in the coming years. Just curious did anyone else go to the Franklin Institute for the gaming exhibit and if so how was your experience after all this was my perspective.
Taking it on tour might have done the opposite effect, answered all questions and curiosity, and essentially let potential buyers touch, see, and lose interest.
I applaud the guy who bought it! It is amazing that he is going to basically have it on tour and in museum than going in a private collection. This is amazing and blows me away that people are this way- willing to share history instead of hiding it away in a house. Also I am very interested in going into a gaming museum or exhibit. Come on Chicago or Milwaukee; get an exhibit like this! 🥺 I’m gonna have to start writing letters to near by museums. The body works was amazing, titanic, and Egyptian. But give me an interactive video gaming exhibit- I would pay for the vip access for that. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
either they declined that million-dollar offer because they thought they were going to get more or they wanted to sell it to someone who wasn't just going to shut it up in some private collection but then I ask why not just approach a bunch of video game museums that were already established
Greed is one hell of a thing, had a price of 1.2 million for this thing but instead of going for that they put it online thinking they'll get a better price for it, being more than 1.2 but sadly it was not. Anyway $360k is still a lot of money but 1.2 million wouldve been way better but everything happens for a reason and the only good takeaway is that the new owner wants to put this thing and other rare things like it in a museum for everyone to see instead of on his shelf in his home.
From the photos of this thing, it's kinda interesting that I've never seen any Nintendo branding on the console at all... at least from the angles we've been shown. Makes me wonder if the plan was for Sony to market and distribute it themselves. It would make good business sense. If it was a success, Nintendo stood to benefit from increased Super Famicom cart sales. If it flopped they would have only suffered a minor financial loss (if any) as it would be Sony's issue to deal with.
Nintendo generally don't brand their prototype or beta builds of consoles, that happens way later in production. Look up the "Ultra 64" or check out the Hard4Games channel to see what I mean. This Nintendo Playstation was just one of the few created in the prototyping phase before the project was canned by Nintendo. Sony made good use of CD drive, and some of the buttons used on the console and contoller ports for building the PSx though
I would be willing to bet that prototyping for this device was the responsibility of SONY. The SNES was already an established device, SONY had to figure out to how to get their disc drive to work with the SNES's internal tech
@@SubDUex how do you think that? Nintendo produced molds like the SNES which looks like the same molding as this Nintendo PlayStation prototype (the plastic type material)
Even if they had turned down a $750,000 offer, or even just a $400,000 offer, it would have been laughable. We don't have any confirmation of the 1.2 million offer, but it's insane to think they'd try to push an auction to get even more out of it. The value was decided months ago. Also, there is a second one in existence, we just haven't seen anything of it aside from one or two photos. The owner stopped uploading any updates or information on it. It looks slightly different from the one we've seen most famously.
This is a one of a kind item, it belongs to be protected in a museum with the console protected from actually touching it. The actual console itself, functionality wise is pretty much an Super Famicom because no SNES-CD games were ever developed but the history behind this prototype is important to preserve.
I understand they believed they could have sold it for more than 1.2 million but having that offered upfront and then turning it down is just shooting yourself in the foot.
My personal estimate for the auction was early 300's so it actually went higher than I was expecting. I remember reading about him declining the 1.2 million offer and I thought he was a total idiot since there was no way he was going to make more money on this auction... It's one thing saying the console is worth 1.2 million, but actually getting someone to pay that much for it is an entirely different endevour. If that was a serious offer, he should have taken it.
There was no $1.2mil offer. If there was there would have been a reserve set around that price for the auction. It was a price tossed out there by the seller to overinflate it's value and encourage bidding.
What the seller should have done, something scummy: Make that crowd-funded offer sign a contract, no matter what, the offered price will not change, the bidder or someone the bidder knows will bid the original offer so the bid stays locked as the minimum. The contract states that they may not drop their price, and if the auction doesn’t go smoothly, then the item is theirs (crowd finders). Failure to meet the offered amount will result in forfeit of the item to the second highest bidder (even if they offer them more than the second highest but less than the original offer). This would be a scare tactic to make them not back-out. In agreement for signing the contract, he would use some of the earnings to personally provide aid in making sure it goes somewhere for the public as the crowd funders wanted.
@@csq7871 It really was pretty awesome. I don't think I want to deal with being forced to use streaming but in certain use cases it was a very useful tool to have in the toolkit.
@@Ravenna_Black it lowered the barrier of entry. Most console gamers can only afford a single console per generation (or dont have the time to justify buying 2 systems). And I would never spend the money required to own a gaming pc. So OL solved the affordability problem. In doing that, I purchased games i would have never played previously. And the subscription model was also Convenient
@@ScooterinAB oh yeah true. Have you ever been to the location im referring to? If not then you should put it on your bucket List. Its cool af, not your typical "museum.
All these people who want to start their 'game museums' should just collab. It's a goofy idea if you ask me but this would make everything easier on everyone.
Hear me out. I live in Ohio. We have a lot of museums like to Rock and Roll and Pro Football halls of fame. They get a ton of traffic from all over. I think a museum that had a dev and esport hof would do well in Columbus. If not Ohio, it'll do better on the east than west because most nonart museums do. Chicago, DC, or Atlanta would work too imo.
at least someone that respects videogame history and will still work out ways for people that love vintage videogames to still get to see it. Worst case scenario would of been if some random rich dude bought it and put it on a shelf to never see the light of day again, or packed away in a basement like the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark...
Feel free to "cool story bro" me on this but I saw one of these at the Classic Gaming Expo in Vegas in the early 2000's so while they are certainly uncommon as hell, they are not rare enough to be worth millions.
My ten year old likes playing his switch and my PS4. We were talking about them both and I said to him "did you know there was a Nintendo playstation" he thought I was just messing with him so that when I busted out the good ol yt videos
I am shocked that some tech billionaire out there didn’t bid more than that. Look at the house prices in SF! This is literally nothing to pay for a nerdy Bay Area billionaire
6:15 Were you taking about the Game Masters exhibit that was at the Franklin Institute in 2018, or was it something different? $360,000 is lower than I thought.
I am not even sure the 1.2 million was a real offer. Maybe the seller just made it up to drive up the price for the auction.
If it was that High. I think they would have taken it.
Sebastian Krauss still, it's funny because if the seller made that up to drive up the price, greed bit his butt. He ended up with way less money than he expected
Quoting the owner speaking to Kotaku: “We turned down 1.2 million from someone in Norway,” Diebold said. He said that after paying taxes on that amount, splitting the remainder 50-50 with his son, and paying off all his outstanding debts, he “will pretty much end up with nothing.”
@@VMC_Boy Not having debt is not nothing. That is a lot of interest that he will not have to pay.
@@hassam363 and alot of money he can save or spend on other shit not needing to pay off the debt anymore lol
“It belongs in a museum!”
- Indiana “Gamer” Jones
No it doesn't it belongs in the trash it's a piece of junk with crapoy games on it completely fuckin stupid that someone would waste thousands on junk like dis
Moon khan because it’s a one-of-kind item and that makes it more valuable. Not that I’d expect some nose-picking 12 year old to understand.
True it does belong in a museum. It’s PlayStation history
@@blackhairedbandit It's a gem because it's a product that could have brought two of the biggest gaming companies out there together. Of course both went on to be just fine on their own but still. It's one of those What if's that people still talk about.
I'm still surprised they turned down my offer of 1.2 dollars.
No chance there was a legit offer this was just to churn up the hype
What games did it have?
Greed is never surprising...
Maybe the seller didn't want their buyer to go broke
Time Stamps
1:55 $360,000
5:32 The Future for the Console
Your a god
Thank you
Hey thanks
Thank you he rambles the fuck on about the same shit to hit that 10mins
Mvp
If that buyer actually starts a museum (or partners with one), I will have the utmost respect for him. We need more people who love sharing experiences!
Imagine turning down a million for, meh others already mentioned it im not going to reiterate how greedy and foolish they were.
@@disgustedluigi It was someone who funded it for a museum, one million for such a thing isn't far'fetched.
They turned down an offer for 1.2 million then sold it for 25% of that lol great job everyone
about right.
Its possible he thought it was worth less than 1.2 million
For as much as you've covered the story of this system, and how much you like to do teardowns, I'm really surprised you've never mentioned that Ben Heck did a teardown and repair on that exact unit to get it working.
Seriously ?
The seller is now banging his head non-stop ever since the auction ended for turning down 1.2 million dollars
The private buyer was probably the one who won the auction!! He got a great deal !
If he actually got that offer, it was a just a rumor that 1.2 m will be offered
Nic5 Cyprus if it was even true
He deserves it. The cockiness of that guy...
What something is "worth" and the amount you have in your wallet are two very different things. A $1.2 million offer means nothing unless that money is sitting on the table in front of you. Anything before that is just pretend.
Someone offers me 1.2million dollars for that console, sold. I wouldn't even think twice about it.
@The Mad Atheist well he got less than that on the auction. Lol
"asian influence on the video game industry"
Lmfao, as if Japan wasn't the single reason the industry even exists and made up almost the entirety of it for multiple decades.
While other Asian nations like China outright banned consoles entirely!
@@meowpower08 You're not wrong, but I'm not sure how that fact is relevant lol.
My thoughts exactly. Japan literally made this industry and has to date the strongest impact on it.
@@t.fernbach602 Exactly. Seems pretty damn sketchy to treat them like an afterthought. Like, Sony and Nintendo, both the companies in question, are Japanese even lmao.
Asia's influence on the industry is all of it, basically.
Pichuscute I think his point is that “asian” is a BS label since it was only Japan. You wouldn’t say “North American” game developers which lumps in Mexico and Canada when really you’re talking about America
Museum worker here: There are museums out there with lots of usable computers and playable video games. But they are constantly needing repair. Because anything the public can touch, the public will break. In almost all cases it's not because they intend to, but because things wear out with use. There's even those people with no self-awareness, no understanding of boundaries, or pure malevolence who will cross any boundary you put out to play with artifacts they can't immediately touch. I've had the public try to open locked vitrines to try to touch things, and they usually genuinely have no idea that THEY shouldn't touch things. Other people obviously shouldn't touch, but they aren't aware that the same rules apply to them. I've had former auto plant workers break into cars on display but "it's OK, man, I built that car." The pure malevolence is usually teenagers in groups; individually, they're perfectly fine. But a group is deadly.
the seller should had took the 1.2M but NOOO, dude got F'ing greedy and wanted more..bet he's regretting it now
Matthew _ he never wanted more. He wanted to just travel around showing it off and becoming famous. I mean he had *trips paid for him* and that is fun.
Perhaps he turned it down because he felt it was to much money?
Yet oddly enough, I don't feel bad for him. I don't wish any ills upon him, but i just don't feel bad at all.
@Eragor the Kindhearted Who knows
He took no loss, paid something like 70 bucks for it. Million or not, if he had only gotten 500 dollars for it, it would have been a win for him. 300+k is just icing.
I remember using onlive for the first time on my phone. I was at church playing saints row 3 and I had the Sony Ericsson Xperia play. It played good but it was blurry because of the internet there.
Partnering with existing museums is a better bet. As car, music, and sports museums show- making a niche museum like that get off the ground and work sustainably is incredibly difficult to do
Nice. They have a Computer Space cabinet at Funspot in NH. Not sure how rare they are but they’re out there.
6:31 - that museum exhibit was sick, I got to see it when it came to the West coast, did some of my first videos on it
Imagine turning down an offer over 1 million and you end up selling it for 300k xd
The guy who offered 1 million: -_-
Was the Asian influence on video games ever in question? Video games have pretty much always been pioneered by Japan
Justin Maverick for consoles it was after Atari left
@@elbucho8867 was Atari an American company?
Justin Maverick yes originally
Justin Maverick you seriously didn’t know that? Plus lots of other companies that don’t exist or make games these days. Look up the 1983 gaming crash.
Atari was the last big American video game company until Microsoft came in.
Still glad I got a chance to play the thing at SRGE before it ended up under glass. If it does go in a museum I tend to doubt it will be in an interactive display.
As someone who did go to the Franklin Institute for the video game exhibit that happened a couple years back I must say it was quite disappointing in practice as it felt like very little was actually provided in terms of historical, textual information about the games, designers, etc and it felt more like a video game playground for kids who were yanking the chair of the Outrun, sit-down variant they had rather than actually providing an in-depth look at gaming's history. Although awesome conceptually, I do think that museums should be more text based or at least up the age restriction to ensure that guests are not abusing the equipment or at least parents should better monitor their children (which is very unlikely, unfortunately). But overall, would love to see gaming to be featured more in museums in the coming years. Just curious did anyone else go to the Franklin Institute for the gaming exhibit and if so how was your experience after all this was my perspective.
Taking it on tour might have done the opposite effect, answered all questions and curiosity, and essentially let potential buyers touch, see, and lose interest.
True, plus they should have sold it back in 2016 when it was first revealed and the hype was high.
3:30
That guy looks like a fusion between Tom Hanks & Bill Murray
Wtf. Lol
Looks like a regular old guy to me
@@fernandosepulveda8748 So are Tom Hanks & Bill Murray.
Looks like an old dude wearing cheap.
MurRAAAAAAY
I applaud the guy who bought it! It is amazing that he is going to basically have it on tour and in museum than going in a private collection. This is amazing and blows me away that people are this way- willing to share history instead of hiding it away in a house. Also I am very interested in going into a gaming museum or exhibit. Come on Chicago or Milwaukee; get an exhibit like this! 🥺 I’m gonna have to start writing letters to near by museums. The body works was amazing, titanic, and Egyptian. But give me an interactive video gaming exhibit- I would pay for the vip access for that. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
New office is looking great! That "ONLIVE" shot looked fantastic. Looking forward to more Techwave and any new videos. Congrats.
If the museum is near one of the Atari Hotels in Florida close to Super Nintendo World; that would be a must do vacation for a lot of people.
I thought the seller had a reserve on the item? Meaning they don't actually have to sell it since it didn't reach the reserve amount?
either they declined that million-dollar offer because they thought they were going to get more or they wanted to sell it to someone who wasn't just going to shut it up in some private collection but then I ask why not just approach a bunch of video game museums that were already established
I thought the guy who bought it would be John Hancock since he is also building a humble museum.
If it was wanted for 1.2 then I would imagine that person would have bid.
there is alrdy a permanent video game museum in texas that is a permanent home for that temporary exhibit in fresno TX
Oh man, I remember Onlive, I had that service and used it extensively to play Homefront back then.
3:45 sounds like there is a bit of background & lots of storytelling behind this. Please elaborate on what happened behind the scenes.
Greed is one hell of a thing, had a price of 1.2 million for this thing but instead of going for that they put it online thinking they'll get a better price for it, being more than 1.2 but sadly it was not. Anyway $360k is still a lot of money but 1.2 million wouldve been way better but everything happens for a reason and the only good takeaway is that the new owner wants to put this thing and other rare things like it in a museum for everyone to see instead of on his shelf in his home.
From the photos of this thing, it's kinda interesting that I've never seen any Nintendo branding on the console at all... at least from the angles we've been shown.
Makes me wonder if the plan was for Sony to market and distribute it themselves. It would make good business sense. If it was a success, Nintendo stood to benefit from increased Super Famicom cart sales. If it flopped they would have only suffered a minor financial loss (if any) as it would be Sony's issue to deal with.
Nintendo generally don't brand their prototype or beta builds of consoles, that happens way later in production. Look up the "Ultra 64" or check out the Hard4Games channel to see what I mean. This Nintendo Playstation was just one of the few created in the prototyping phase before the project was canned by Nintendo.
Sony made good use of CD drive, and some of the buttons used on the console and contoller ports for building the PSx though
@@gibmeaway100 Thanx for the info!
I would be willing to bet that prototyping for this device was the responsibility of SONY. The SNES was already an established device, SONY had to figure out to how to get their disc drive to work with the SNES's internal tech
@@SubDUex how do you think that? Nintendo produced molds like the SNES which looks like the same molding as this Nintendo PlayStation prototype (the plastic type material)
The Smithsonian had a Video Game Exhibit in DC a few years ago. It was in the American History museum of Art
Even if they had turned down a $750,000 offer, or even just a $400,000 offer, it would have been laughable. We don't have any confirmation of the 1.2 million offer, but it's insane to think they'd try to push an auction to get even more out of it. The value was decided months ago.
Also, there is a second one in existence, we just haven't seen anything of it aside from one or two photos. The owner stopped uploading any updates or information on it. It looks slightly different from the one we've seen most famously.
This is a one of a kind item, it belongs to be protected in a museum with the console protected from actually touching it. The actual console itself, functionality wise is pretty much an Super Famicom because no SNES-CD games were ever developed but the history behind this prototype is important to preserve.
There's a video game section in the 'Science Museum' of London. They may be the kind of place who'll rent it to exhibit.
I understand they believed they could have sold it for more than 1.2 million but having that offered upfront and then turning it down is just shooting yourself in the foot.
I wasn't expecting Action Comics Issue 1 territory, but I was expecting more than this.
I am curious to see/hear what sony or/and nintendo think about this...
He should call John Hancock for help on the museum
At least he didn't trade it into GameSpot.
I would like to see how that transaction would go. 🤣
I said the first time you did a video that there was no way it would make that offer on the auction
My personal estimate for the auction was early 300's so it actually went higher than I was expecting. I remember reading about him declining the 1.2 million offer and I thought he was a total idiot since there was no way he was going to make more money on this auction... It's one thing saying the console is worth 1.2 million, but actually getting someone to pay that much for it is an entirely different endevour. If that was a serious offer, he should have taken it.
There was no $1.2mil offer. If there was there would have been a reserve set around that price for the auction. It was a price tossed out there by the seller to overinflate it's value and encourage bidding.
This is exactly what happend in uncut gems
A Video Game Hall of Fame would be a cool museum
This is why you use a reserve, ladies and gents.
$60,000 for the auction house? Wow, that's ridiculous.
Auctions usually take a large cut. $60 000 is only about 15%, which is pretty low considering some auction houses take as much as 30%.
What the seller should have done, something scummy:
Make that crowd-funded offer sign a contract, no matter what, the offered price will not change, the bidder or someone the bidder knows will bid the original offer so the bid stays locked as the minimum. The contract states that they may not drop their price, and if the auction doesn’t go smoothly, then the item is theirs (crowd finders). Failure to meet the offered amount will result in forfeit of the item to the second highest bidder (even if they offer them more than the second highest but less than the original offer). This would be a scare tactic to make them not back-out. In agreement for signing the contract, he would use some of the earnings to personally provide aid in making sure it goes somewhere for the public as the crowd funders wanted.
An actual video game museum as opposed to one promised for over 8 years with nothing to show for it. 🤔
I used Onlive back in the day. It was really useful for things like Second Life and bypassing Enterprise WAN limits on UDP.
It was awesome
@@csq7871 It really was pretty awesome. I don't think I want to deal with being forced to use streaming but in certain use cases it was a very useful tool to have in the toolkit.
@@Ravenna_Black it lowered the barrier of entry. Most console gamers can only afford a single console per generation (or dont have the time to justify buying 2 systems). And I would never spend the money required to own a gaming pc. So OL solved the affordability problem. In doing that, I purchased games i would have never played previously. And the subscription model was also Convenient
Nobody _really_ thought this was getting 1.2mil. Hell, i didn't think it'd get what it got, so good for them.
Im shocked the videogame museum in frisco texas didnt snag it
It doesn't really do anything, and they probably didn't have the money to make a bid. Museums are notoriously poor.
@@ScooterinAB oh yeah true. Have you ever been to the location im referring to? If not then you should put it on your bucket List. Its cool af, not your typical "museum.
Whatever he does with the console, I hope he considers retro bright
Imagine paying a third of a million dollars for a one of a kind item then being self conscious that it shows its age.
aroo for that price it should be perfect
All these people who want to start their 'game museums' should just collab. It's a goofy idea if you ask me but this would make everything easier on everyone.
Hear me out. I live in Ohio. We have a lot of museums like to Rock and Roll and Pro Football halls of fame. They get a ton of traffic from all over. I think a museum that had a dev and esport hof would do well in Columbus. If not Ohio, it'll do better on the east than west because most nonart museums do. Chicago, DC, or Atlanta would work too imo.
Nintendo Playstation sold for nearly exactly what I thought it would. Grats to the seller. Glad I got the chance to hold and play it when I did.
I’m curious were they were prototype games or scarp games or anything on that system?
UA-cam: Notifies me of a new video
Also UA-cam: This video was uploaded 7 days ago
I hope he does a collaboration with the Video Game museum in Frisco, Tx.That’d be awesome.
I thought it would be sold for something around 150-200K
That is what greed gets you, if the rumor is true about someone offering 1.2m, then they dropped the ball.
$1.2m was most likely a lie. If so, seller would have had a minimum reserve on the auction sale closer to that number.
I would go to a museum like that
Well at least the buyer didn't decide to scrap it for parts
Man i hope the shipping is free
That video game experience in Philadelphia at the Franklin Institute was a cool date night with my wife
@NintendoGuy67 ....she did. we're both nerds.
Looking forward to the onlive video
Nice cameo of RGT85 :D
This would be hooked up to my tv right now had I won it.
greed. stupid stupid greed.
i would love to see you open the nintendo playstation to see whats inside
Ben Heck already did.
at least someone that respects videogame history and will still work out ways for people that love vintage videogames to still get to see it. Worst case scenario would of been if some random rich dude bought it and put it on a shelf to never see the light of day again, or packed away in a basement like the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark...
You can almost hear SpawnWave drooling over taking this thing apart!
You may have already seen Ben Heck do it?
Are they forced to sell it even if the offer is in the sellers opinion to low?
Yes. It's an auction. Unless a reserve price is set, you take what you get.
$360k is a nice house anywhere in the world
I used onlive when it started out. It was great at the time, I had a basic pc with integrated graphics. I could play games with maxed out graphics.
It was awesome
Feel free to "cool story bro" me on this but I saw one of these at the Classic Gaming Expo in Vegas in the early 2000's so while they are certainly uncommon as hell, they are not rare enough to be worth millions.
i would of traded it for my gameboy micro ..
I'm glad it sold for less , that's what they get for being greedy .
Or maybe he wanted it to sell for less?
We did it boys! Console Wars are no more!
I was one of the few that bought the onlive.
It was awesome
Seller's greed hurt them a lot with this one, and I couldn't be happier. I hope the dude learned a lesson
My ten year old likes playing his switch and my PS4. We were talking about them both and I said to him "did you know there was a Nintendo playstation" he thought I was just messing with him so that when I busted out the good ol yt videos
I am shocked that some tech billionaire out there didn’t bid more than that. Look at the house prices in SF! This is literally nothing to pay for a nerdy Bay Area billionaire
I guessed 500k. Very surprised it didn't even hit that much even tho 360k is a good chunk on change lol
Uncut Gems IRL
I just saw 3 original Super Mario carts at Hock Shop today. You mean to tell me they are worth something?
6:15 Were you taking about the Game Masters exhibit that was at the Franklin Institute in 2018, or was it something different?
$360,000 is lower than I thought.
You're really good at your job 🤣😂🤣😂👍👍👍
The guy owns KLOV(killer list of video games)
I really miss onlive. It was dope and I had so much fun with it. Very good for playing single player games.
Does it even say "Nintendo" anywhere on it? I see "Sony" everywhere..
No way were they offered $1.2 mil and not take it.
$300,000 for a useless piece of plastic, what a win.
If a second one was found then it wouldn’t be worth $360K anymore as it’s no longer a one of a kind.
Could be worth more depending on what it came with? Even for the original one found. Just depends...
Great video, but one small point: It's [pronounced 'Mac - luh - more'. 😀