- The Sony MSF-1 has been acquired by The National Videogame Museum
- The prototype is the oldest in the world and was designed in a Nintendo/PlayStation partnership
- The unreleased hardware was originally developed as a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES
The National Videogame Museum has acquired the oldest Nintendo PlayStation hardware prototype in existence.
The museum, which is based in Frisco, Texas, announced the news in a social media post today, writing: “BREAKING: NVM has acquired the mythical Nintendo Playstation!”
The post was accompanied by several photos of the prototype showing “Not for Sale” and “MSF-1” stickers on the front and side panels.
The MSF-1 is a very early prototype that did not make it to the final product design.
BREAKING: NVM has acquired the mythical Nintendo Playstation! 🤯This Sony MSF-1 is the OLDEST known extant Nintendo Playstation hardware artifact and is the original development system for Sony’s planned Super Nintendo CD attachment. It is the ONLY known device in existence!… pic.twitter.com/9JQyCsFtxcMarch 4, 2026
For some context, Sony and Nintendo were originally in a partnership in the early 1990s to develop a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) called the SNES-CD, also known as the “Nintendo PlayStation”, which was announced in 1992.
However, the collaboration ultimately did not see the light of day, and the project later resulted in the creation of the original PlayStation.
Ken Kutaragi, the co-creator of the PlayStation, also owns a similar version of the Super Nintendo CD, but unlike those prototypes, the MSF-1 is intended to go into a standard SNES cartridge port (via Time Extension).
A prototype of the “Nintendo Play Station” was auctioned off in 2019, and other models exist, but The National Videogame Museum is now the owner of the earliest prototype you can get your hands on and will likely be displayed for fans to see.
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