Golden Nintendo Wii created for Queen Elizabeth II now on sale for the low, low price of $300,000

In 2009, video game publisher THQ advertised an instantly forgettable mini-game collection called Big Family Games by trying to send a working, 24 karat gold-plated Nintendo Wii to Queen Elizabeth II. Big Liz didn’t end up taking possession of the console, which means that the golden Wii drifted through filthy non-aristocratic hands until ending up being owned by a Dutch collector who goes by Donny Fillerup in 2017. And now, because Donny would rather have money than a goofy promo Wii, he’s listed it on eBay for the humble asking price of $300,000.
In an interview with another member of Console Variations, a website for game collectors he co-founded, Fillerup explains that he’s selling “likely one of the rarest (if not the rarest) system out there” in order to afford his own place to live. He says he had always hoped to keep the console “just in case [I] open my museum,” but, understandably, he would rather have the money at this point in his life instead.