Ultra-rare 'Nintendo PlayStation' console sells for $360,000 at auction

A prototype of the unreleased'Nintendo PlayStation' console has sold for $360,000 (£273,096) at auction – nearly $1 million less than an earlier rejected offer. The super-rare console, which was sold with a Sony-branded SNES controller and cartridge that enables CD-Rom functionality, was sold by Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auctions on Friday. The collectors' item is a rare artefact from a brief collaboration between Japanese gaming giants Sony and Nintendo before they took separate paths in the video game market. The winner bidder was entrepreneur and video game collector Greg McLemore, who beat out other bidders including Palmer Luckey, founder of Facebook's Oculus VR platform. The previous owner of the prototype had reportedly turned down $1.2 million to put it up for auction – meaning he's missed out on nearly $850,000.