"When I joined Ken Kutaragi's team [in 1993], there was a system called 'Play Station' that had both Super Nintendo cartridge support and some disc game support. Actually, I played some games [on it] as well."

It's worth pointing out that Shuhei joined Sony back in 1986, which was five years before Kutaragi's division unveiled -- and pretty much instantly canned -- the SNES-CD add-on.

Alas, the exec made it very clear that he couldn't confirm whether the recently surfaced "Nintendo PlayStation" device was legit, but he did give a cool reason.

"Somehow, I think it's more fun to keep it kind of a mystery."

Fair play, Shuhei-san, fair play.