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These consoles are fake!

A collection of gaming's coolest and crappiest mocked-up machines

Words: Dave Meikleham, GamesRadar UK

Fake Revolution




Before the age of Wiinis jokes, Nintendo's baby was codenamed Revolution. But, unless the company is ever run by someone with severe glaucoma, we doubt anything like this will ever hit the shelves.

Not an awful attempt by uk mag, N-Revolution. Still, it's pretty much just a flattened Gamecube.



The Nintendo On was heavily rumoured to be the company's next console, prior to the announcement of the Wii at E3 2006. Professionally produced by Spaniard, Pablo Belmonte, many believed it had been leaked directly from the Japanese giant. And Nintendo keeping schtum on the subject only made people more convinced it was the genuine article.

Fake DS

It's a handheld! No, it's a Rubik's Cube! No, it's a case of... erm, an imaginative but pointless mock-up.



The ultimate wet dream for Apple's CEO. This literally couldn't scream million dollar iPhone lawsuit louder if it tried. Unfortunately for Apple, we can't see gadget site Gizmodo releasing their fake DS anytime soon.

Fake PSP

Get ready for Nintendo to get even richer, when they sue Sony for this PSPboy. Or, eh, some chap on the interwebs called MOD SOUL, who cleverly modded his portable console to look like the above.



Credit again goes to Gizmodo, who came up with this streamlined and wafer-thin PSP. It's pretty sexy and, crucially, has the second nubbin the PSP Go desperately needs. Those corners are geared to take someone's eye out, mind.



Basically, the top half of the new Go welded onto the old PSP. It's not original, but the fan, who no doubt designed this in his undercrackers for a Kotaku contest, still had the foresight to graft a second stick onto his baby.

Our personal favourite phoney PSP. The sticks may be a bit small, but the beautiful digital camera-style pop-up screen more than makes up for it. This was another entry in the Kotaku competition.


 
66 Comments
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darkfly23  - 5 months 5 days ago 
The nintendo on looks more like a football helmet.

I would say first, but... no.
Mittenz  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Yay, turns out if your up at 4:00 AM bored out of your mind, Gamesradar will post awsome articles. Thank you Dave, I needed this.
Mittenz  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Wow, I just noticed the Xbox 2 on page 3 has the red ring. At least they went for authenticity.
iKOemos  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Man, that PSPboy is awesome. I want one.
Iffo  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Weird... a couple of the PSP fakes look much better than the actual PSPgo!! On second thought, no - it's not weird at all.
SumthingStupid  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Ha the Nintendo BS, it looks awsome
Games_Radar_DaveMeikleham  - 5 months 5 days ago 
@Mittenz

Yup, there's not better tonic for a doze of insomnia than a big dollop of semi useless game information.

Enjoy!
Hurricrane  - 5 months 5 days ago 
the Nintendo on looks like a toaster....
CAPST3R  - 5 months 5 days ago 
agreed, the PSP has the worst layout possible. they design it for people with small hands. and the go is terrible, i would accidentally crush it.
Cyberninja  - 5 months 5 days ago 
the regular psp already looks like a old advance with a anlog stick
Jordo141  - 5 months 5 days ago 
The Sony Foreman grill is real and actually works. Oh, that PSPboy looks awesome.
Xplosive59  - 5 months 5 days ago 
what would the screens be used for on the bs in casual games?

which it would be its only use
magicman_88  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Have you noticed how every fake PSP has two analogue sticks??

Why couldn't Sony listen to us and do this for the PSP Go??

It might actually be a half decent console then.
animeman  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Some of the fake PSP's looked better than the real ones. Mainly because of the two anlog sticks.
TotalKillLOL  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Wow I was so bored when I decided to read this!
sharklion  - 5 months 5 days ago 
At first i was actually convinced by the good looking xbox! but i guess its to good to be true!
supersenor  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Like video games and meat then try the Sony Foreman grill!
ChrisAntistaSmellsLikePizza  - 5 months 5 days ago 
I would so totally take my Nintendo BS everywhere I went.
CapnCrotchPunch  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Some of these look better than their real counterparts, like the PsP with the fold up screen. I would buy that over the current one any day.

reCAPTIA- germania york
GoldenMe  - 5 months 5 days ago 
Holy halibut, GamesRadar! This article is winning internets!

I <3 you guys.
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