The infamous, one-of-a-kind golden Wii meant for the Queen has been put up for auction.
This unique promotional console was crafted by THQ back in 2009 as a stunt to launch a mediocre minigame collection. The publisher famously tried to send the console to the Queen – though it never reached royal hands.
Now, the console – arguably, a piece of gaming history – has been listed on auction site Goldin. As of the time of writing, the bidding stands at £2k.
The story of the Queen’s golden Wii has been well-chronicled over the years, in particular by People Make Games, which detailed how the console had been quickly returned to sender by Buckingham Palace and then lay languishing in the bowels of publisher THQ for more than a decade.