I could be wrong it could be fake, but ill just lay out some observations from my experience in model making.
The sheer amount of fabrication needed to fake this is astronomical. The aged plastic is untouched as you can see the edges that lead to the SNES section are clean, meaning if someone was to dremel that area out to insert that part that effect would be gone as they would also have to debur the edge. The yellowing is from oxygen exposure meaning deep cuts like that would be white.
There is a significant amount of flash along the whole object, the mold lines make it clear that this was from a plastic injection machine. Getting a mold for those things costs thousands of dollars. This does appear to be a preproduction model as the models would be retooled to have a smooth edge.
I don't believe that from the time the first pictures of one of the prototyped surfaced to not is enough time to make cheap plastic yellow( i could be wrong here).
The wear on the controller looks genuine, if you were to remove the old logo and screen print a new one on would of shown up on the plastic as you can see the plastic is textured.
The guy probably does not know the japanese date system and made a mistake. 10/6 and 6/10 are both valid dates.
All the parts look of that age, the areas where the buttons are could not of been tooled from a dremel or other drill they would of have to been there on the mold.
The SONY is the controller plug must of been molded in , Sony never made snes controllers or any other item that's shell is the same size. This would have to be injected molded again costing a fortune.
If this was fake I don't think they would post high res images of the device, it would be vary apparent if it was fake.
If this is fake I would call this the greatest piece known to man. And would require an expert like Adam to accomplish. Even then I don't think he could pull it off.
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