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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A 24-karat gold-plated <keyword id="205598" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Nintendo-Wii">Nintendo Wii</keyword> made for <keyword id="67995" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Queen-Elizabeth-II">Queen Elizabeth II</keyword> is selling on <keyword id="6357395" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="eBay">eBay</keyword>.</li><li>The Queen never played the console, which was made by a video game publisher as a publicity stunt.</li><li>The seller says experts have valued it at $1 million, but he has set an asking price of $300,000.</li></ul>A gold-plated Nintendo Wii game console custom-made for Queen Elizabeth II has gone <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/164836881855?hash=item26610b35bf:g:OasAAOSwq05gfyJF&amp;mkevt=1&amp;mkcid=1&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;campid=5336778268&amp;toolid=10001&amp;customid=66960X1516586X68d73972dc4be945e64a7d657a857723dc4be945e64a7d657a857723">on sale on eBay</a> for $300,000.<keyword id="668434" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="THQ">THQ</keyword>, a video game publisher that collapsed in 2013, made the 24-karat gold-plated console in 2009 and sent it to the Queen as a marketing stunt, the seller, Donny Fillerup, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/gold-nintendo-wii-queen-elizabeth-scli-intl-gbr/index.html">told CNN</a>.But the Queen's staff rejected the gift and sent it back, Fillerup said.THQ folded in 2013 and a private buyer acquired its stock, which included the special-edition Wii.<div type="image" title="The 24-Karat gold Nintendo Wii made for Queen Elizabeth II" height="960" width="1600" msid="82328244" hostid="261"></div>Fillerup, who collects consoles, bought the special-edition Wii in 2017. He would not tell CNN how much he paid for it.He said that the console was valued at $1 million by experts but that he was happy with a lower price. Fillerup hopes to buy an apartment with the money from the sale."I want to be reasonable with buying a place for myself, and $300,000 (€250,000) is the price that I came up with. I don't NEED more," Fillerup said <a href="https://consolevariations.com/blog/the-24-karat-queens-golden-wii-is-for-sale">in an interview</a> on his site Console Variations."Also, this gives more people the opportunity to buy it."Fillerup said in <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/164836881855?hash=item26610b35bf:g:OasAAOSwq05gfyJF&amp;mkevt=1&amp;mkcid=1&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;campid=5336778268&amp;toolid=10001&amp;customid=66960X1516586X68d73972dc4be945e64a7d657a857723dc4be945e64a7d657a857723">the eBay listing</a> that the console was in working condition.He told Insider he would provide authentication to any buyer - including the console's serial number, documentation from a previous owner, and signatures from experts - before completing the purchase."I hope the system goes to a good home. Hopefully a museum, or someone who will take care of it as much as I did," Fillerup said in the interview with CNN.<div type="image" title="The 24-Karat gold Nintendo Wii made for Queen Elizabeth II" height="513" width="750" msid="82328247" hostid="261"></div>Chris Bratt, a video game journalist and YouTuber, tracked down the console as part of his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvChVZjgV3k">"People Make Games" series</a>, in 2019, and found it in the hands of Fillerup. Fillerup said the console would be the subject of a documentary to be released later this year.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>In 2008, a UK tabloid reported that Queen Elizabeth had fallen in love with Prince William's Wii console </li><li>She was a "natural" at bowling, the unnamed sources claimed. </li></ul>In 2008, The Sunday People, a UK tabloid, claimed that Queen Elizabeth II, then in her eighties, had become a keen Wii player.Unnamed sources, reportedly close to the Queen, told <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld-news%2Fmake-way-for-the-q-wii-n-1648188">the newspaper</a> that she had fallen in love with Prince William's Wii console, gifted him by Kate Middleton, <a href="https://www.insider.com/william-kate-middleton-become-prince-princess-wales-diana-title-2022-9">now Princess of Wales. </a>"When she saw William playing a game after lunch at Sandringham, she thought the Nintendo looked tremendous fun and begged to join in," the source told the paper, adding, "She played a simple ten-pin bowling game and by all accounts was a natural.""It was hilarious. William was in fits of laughter. He was enormously impressed at having such a cool gran," they said. <div type="image" title="Queen Elizabeth II smiling profit shot, shoulders up" height="3499" width="4665" msid="94282173" hostid="261" sizebytes="405516"></div>The Queen reportedly enjoyed playing on Big Family Games, a game created by now-defunct company THQ. In response to the Queen's high-tech hobby, then-product manager at THQ Danielle Robinson <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/queen-gets-gold-plated-wii/">told CBS News</a>: "Big Family Games is the ultimate Wii game to get all family members, from grandparents to young children, playing together."But we thought that Her Majesty the Queen wouldn't want to play on any old console, so an extra-special gold one was commissioned," he added. "We hope she and the rest of the Royal Family enjoy the game!"As a publicity stunt, the company sent the 24-karat gold-plated console, but Buckingham Palace rejected the gift.The Palace <a href="https://www.royal.uk/contact">website</a> states, "for security reasons, the Correspondence Team are unable to accept any unsolicited gifts which are sent to The Queen." THQ went bust in 2013, and the flashy gold console was forgotten until it reappeared on eBay in 2021. A 32-year-old seller <a href="https://www.instagram.com/donnyfillerup/?hl=en">Donny Fillerup</a> said he bought the console from THQ. He claimed he had all of the documentation certifying the Wii was the one made for the Queen <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gold-nintendo-wii-made-for-the-queen-ebay-selling-2021-4">and went on to list it on eBay for $300,000. </a>The condition listed: "The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended."Fillerup, who collected consoles, bought the special edition and said that the console was valued at $1 million by experts but that he was happy with a lower price."I hope the system goes to a good home. Hopefully a museum, or someone who will take care of it as much as I did," Fillerup said in the interview with CNN.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword> is reportedly fishing around for a major video game business executive to hire.</li><li>The company intends to expand its <keyword id="6357332" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Gaming">gaming</keyword> efforts - to break into the lucrative video game industry.</li><li>That initiative is likely to fail, given the history of tech and <keyword id="4578" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="entertainment">entertainment</keyword> companies in gaming.</li></ul>With over 200 million paid subscribers worldwide, Netflix is an absolute behemoth.The streaming entertainment giant has successfully transitioned from a scrappy startup paying to license its content to a major player in Hollywood, splashing out tens of millions of dollars on its own productions.So, what's next for Netflix? The answer to that question, at least in part, appears to be <keyword id="25195" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="video-games">video games</keyword>.Netflix is fishing around for a gaming executive to help it expand out its gaming initiative, <a href="https://go.skimresources.com/?id=35871X943606&amp;isjs=1&amp;jv=15.1.0-stackpath&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fnetflix-push-into-video-games-with-gaming-executive-hunt-report-2021-5&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theinformation.com%2Farticles%2Fnetflix-seeks-executive-to-expand-game-efforts&amp;xguid=01F3G92P07S92PQW39PHB2EPDA&amp;xs=1&amp;xtz=240&amp;xuuid=6c221e5f9dc1eaec2333ffde45eec7e7&amp;xcust=xid%3Afr1622224729161cae&amp;xjsf=other_click__auxclick%20%5B2%5Damp;xjsf=other_click__auxclick%20%5B2%5D">according to a recent report in The Information</a>. While the company has acknowledged an interest in interactive entertainment, it has yet to decide what this will mean in practice. Licensing content from existing game makers? Making its own games? And how will you actually play those games?While we still don't know much about Netflix's plans, one thing is clear right now: Netflix getting involved in gaming is almost certain to fail."I do think they will try, and do think they will fail," Wedbush managing director Michael Pachter told Insider. "It's hard to make games." <div type="image" title="bandersnatch choice" height="1688" width="3000" msid="83088143" hostid="261"></div>Indeed, the video game industry is a very risky business, and even entrenched studios with top-tier talent and years of experience regularly go under. "We have the failures of THQ, Midway, Acclaim, 3DO, BAM, Eidos, Atari, Infogrames, Interplay, and probably a few others to illustrate how hard it is," Pachter said. "I don't see how Netflix could possibly think it can develop and sell games."Joost van Dreunen, author of "One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games," echoed Pachter's skepticism."Big tech sucks at games," he told Insider.He pointed to Google's Stadia, Amazon's Luna, and Facebook's scattershot gaming efforts across the last decade as prime examples of how major tech companies routinely fail at gaming initiatives.Google and Amazon and Facebook have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into gaming across the last decade, yet none are major players in the video game market. "They look at it in a way that distribution goes before the content," Van Dreunen said, "and that's the wrong way around."Instead of creating video games and building beloved brands, they've largely focused on the mechanics of how you buy and access those games: Google's Stadia platform, a Netflix-like video game streaming service, is a prime example.Less than two years after Google announced a major game development initiative led by "Assassin's Creed" creator Jade Raymond, and less than one year after outright buying a video game studio, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-abandons-video-game-development-stadia-2021-2">the company folded those efforts this past February</a>. What's Google focusing on for its big gaming service rather than making games for it?An "increased focus on using our technology platform for industry partners," Google Stadia Vice President Phil Harrison said in a blog post - a pretty huge step back from the splashy announcement of Stadia back in 2019, which promised a new digital service that would compete against the likes of <keyword id="136654" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Nintendo">Nintendo</keyword>, <keyword id="6358540" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sony">Sony</keyword>'s PlayStation, and <keyword id="10387" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Microsoft">Microsoft</keyword>'s Xbox.<div type="image" title="FILE PHOTO: Google vice president and general manager Phil Harrison speaks during a Google keynote address announcing a new video gaming streaming service named Stadia that attempts to capitalize on the company's cloud technology and global network of data centers, at the Gaming Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam" height="2297" width="3414" msid="83088146" hostid="261"></div>For Netflix, which has the benefit of owning a beloved intellectual property like "Stranger Things" that could lend itself to games, another problem exists."Building games from owned IP is also super hard," Pachter said. "Disney has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-disneys-messy-video-game-business-2016-5">failed at least three times</a> trying to do so, and its IP is much stronger than Netflix."In recent years, Disney's biggest properties - from Marvel characters to the "Star Wars" franchise - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-finally-finds-success-in-video-games-avengers-star-wars-2020-2">have found success in gaming</a> by Disney largely handing over creative control to major video game companies. Examples include 2018's "Marvel's Spider-Man" and 2019's "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order." The former, a PlayStation 4 exclusive game made by Insomniac Games, sold over 20 million copies. The latter, a multiplatform "Star Wars" game with original characters and story, sold over 10 million copies.At approximately $60 apiece, each game has grossed well over $1 billion in sales.<div type="image" title="Spider-man (PS4)" height="2160" width="3840" msid="83088147" hostid="261"></div>Netflix could follow a similar model and potentially find success.The company could build a wildly successful game streaming service that seamlessly leverages its existing streaming service. It could spend years, and hundreds of millions of dollars, building its IP into major game franchises.Or it could buy its way in, splashing out billions of dollars on a major game publisher like EA or Ubisoft - akin to Amazon's recent purchase of MGM Studios, but for gaming. That would require a major, long-term institutional buy-in from Netflix, in addition to major financial investments."You need to have the stomach," Van Dreunen said. "Like when you look at Google and Amazon - they just don't have internally the numbers or the understanding of the space to say, 'Yeah, you know what we should do? Spend $10 billion to really break in.'"For its part, Netflix hasn't detailed its gaming plans just yet - but the company is acknowledging the reported interest in a larger gaming investment in the future."Our members value the variety and quality of our content," the company said in a statement. "Members also enjoy engaging more directly with stories they love - through interactive shows like 'Bandersnatch' and 'You v. Wild,' or games based on 'Stranger Things,' 'La Casa de Papel' and 'To All the Boys.' So we're excited to do more with interactive entertainment."Got a tip? Contact Insider senior correspondent Ben Gilbert via email (<a href="mailto:bgilbert@insider.com">bgilbert@insider.com</a>), or Twitter DM (<a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenGilbert">@realbengilbert</a>). We can keep sources anonymous. Use a non-work device to reach out. PR pitches by email only, please.

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