In 2009, THQ pulled a publicity stunt by covering a Nintendo Wii in 24 karat gold and trying to get it delivered to Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty never actually got her hands on the console, but now, after over a year of auction hijinks, you might be able to.
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I actually wrote about this last year, when the console, in the hands of a collector in the Netherlands, was due to go up for sale on eBay:
That eBay auction went ahead in October 2021 and collected over 700 bids. However, a recent change in eBay’s auction policies—which compared the value of an item to the user’s selling history, which in this case was “very expensive console” vs “some guy’s regular eBay account”—saw the auction removed before it could be completed.
Six months later, the console’s current owner, Don, (who also runs the excellent Consolevariations) has found a workaround. The auction house Goldin is only too happy to list the golden Wii (and the shitty game it was originally intended to promote) there instead.
Here’s Goldin’s listing:
