The question is how competitive is the market? Would he get more money by auctioning it off? For something like smartphones there are plenty of governments that

The question is how competitive is the market? Would he get more money by auctioning it off? For something like smartphones there are plenty of governments that would buy. But for a game console? It's mostly commercial pirates and I guess those don't have as much money sloshing around. Maybe one could make it an adversarial kickstarter kind of thing. The public pools against sony, full disclosure vs. time-delayed disclosure.