from concept to final design on consoles

OK guys, here you go. The ultimate collection of real but whacky Dreamcast prototypes ! Sorry for the crappy watermark but I did these shots many years ago.










Check out that crazy looking plate stuck on a box design! I'm sure glad they never went with that.


Never release Blue SWATCH Dreamcast.


Check out this early cool orange controller and VMU ! I wish they had released a controller in that colour. Also do you notice that the start button is round and not triangular like the final pad.


Hope you enjoyed the pictures !

Yakumo

 

Great pics Yakumo :thumbsup:

Now what the f.. were they thinking when they designed that one o_Ô


Btw. did see this one in any of the posts.. some alternative x360 design:

 

It looks like the bottom part of a vacuum cleaner :110:

And I don't even wanna talk about those joypad ports...

 

Is this it?

 

A few more...

Dreamcast controllers




Nintendo Playstation

 

really saturn-like! i would have enjoyed this one better.

 

Mmmmhhh..... Wiimote is the first thing that comes in my mind.

 

I remember another pic of a red DC controller that had that same round start button. Wish I still had it.

 

This one:

 

I remember that one. It was in an old Guinness Book of World Records. For fastest video games console.

 

It was actually in a case at TGS but yeah that's the same controller. Creepy fucking guy though. haha

 

yakumo you are right, that dreamcast prototypes are really whacky!! h: where did you get that pictures? that protos are in some kind of exposition or museum?

 

Oddly enough, I think I've seen that crazy handlebar Dreamcast before now. >_>

 

Isn't that the prick Stoller or what ever he's called?

Yakumo

 

They were taken either at the Dreamcast's first TGS appearance or at the Dreamcast Launch Party in Tokyo. Not sure where. The pictures on the white background came from a magazine but what one I can't remember now. It was over 8 years ago :nod:

Yakumo

 

somewhere around here I have a huge picture of that from a gamepro where the dreamcast was debuted.

 

Yep, he's the "loved-by-everyone" Bernard Stolar :dance:.

 

prototype Saturns from 1993 / early 1994:






pre-production silver Saturn

 

Regarding the early PlayStation protos, keep in mind that the 16-bit Play Station
(both a SFC/SNES add-on and an all-in-one "Nintendo Play Station") are of a different generation than the 32-bit PS-X / PlayStation.

 

Yakumo, those pictures are just awesome! I never saw the orange controller neither that weird vacuum cleaner Dreamcast design ^^

Though I'm asking myself why designers with such ugly and unrealisable not to say non-economic ideas are getting paid :110: