Golden Wii Meant For Queen Elizabeth II Now Up for Auction

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With Nintendo's extensive hardware library over the years, there have been several consoles that have seen plenty of success. One of these was the company's leap into the seventh generation with the Wii, Nintendo's fifth major home console. It released in 2006 and appealed to a broader demographic than ever before, with a larger focus on motion-controlled video games. The console's influence was so clear that competitors Microsoft and Sony created their own peripherals, the Xbox Kinect and PlayStation Move respectively. Nintendo's console would go on to sell over 101 million units, becoming the seventh best-selling console of all time.

During the era of the Wii, there were plenty of developers who produced a variety of games for the console. Many of these games had to utilize the console's motion controls in some fashion, which left some games lacking polish while others were considered to be genuinely terrible. It's no surprise then that the Wii had a lot of bad games, with one of these tied to the story of a marketing stunt that involved a gold-plated Wii console.

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Back in 2009, THQ attempted its own minigame collection known as Big Family Games, which was regarded as another mediocre title from the company. Famously, in order to market this game, THQ tried to send a golden version of the Wii console, complete with a controller, to Queen Elizabeth II. While it did reach Buckingham Palace, it never made it past security, so it was sent back to THQ. Since THQ had become bankrupt in 2012, the console was lost to time until 2017, where it was found by a collector. The console was then passed to another collector who has put this legendary piece of