Super rare 00s Nintendo console is on sale for $100,000

The antheral who erstwhile auctioned disconnected the Queen’s aureate Wii is present hoping to merchantability a uncommon Nintendo GameCube for a six-figure sum.

To an outsider, spending hundreds of thousands of pounds connected a uncommon video crippled console tin look similar madness, particularly if it can’t really play immoderate games. But for some, the bragging rights unsocial are worthy it.

We’ve seen it hap before, specified arsenic with a prototype of the cancelled Nintendo PlayStation console. While it coiled up selling for astir £276,900, it would person sold for overmuch much had its proprietor agreed to an archetypal connection of £1 million.

While it’s improbable the newest illustration – a uncommon prototype of the Nintendo GameCube – volition ever spell for that overmuch money, its proprietor is surely hoping to marque sextuple figures by putting it up for $100,000 (roughly £80,400).

Nintendo unveiled the GameCube during its Space World commercialized amusement successful 2000, much than a twelvemonth earlier the console’s authoritative launch, which sounds unbelievable nowadays erstwhile you look astatine however secretive the company’s been with the Nintendo Switch 2.

Anyway, the GameCube that was shown was purely for show purposes, truthful lone a precise tiny numberwere ever made. One of these prototypes – the purple 1 specifically – was recovered and acquired by Consolevariations (an online catalogue for crippled console variants) successful 2023.

While astatine archetypal glimpse it looks identical to the GameCube’s last design, determination turned retired to beryllium a fig of differences successful the hardware. For instance, the lid has a transparent model you tin spot through, and it has much aerial vents for cooling purposes (121 compared to the last design’s 64).

Now, Consolevariations’ co-founder Donny Fillerup has listed the console connected eBay for $100,000 ‘or champion offer,’ acknowledging determination is immoderate deterioration owed to however agelong it was hidden for.

While Fillerup is nary uncertainty hoping to merchantability it for more, it’s wholly imaginable idiosyncratic tin negociate to haggle for little if not capable radical bite. It’s an incredibly niche item, particularly since it wasn’t designed to play immoderate games, though it would beryllium bully to spot successful a museum.

Despite the terms tag, it’s besides not atually the rarest GameCube prototype retired there. That honour belongs to the Nintendo Dolphin, which was the GameCube’s archetypal codename. That one’s truthful uncommon that detailed pictures of it lone emerged past year.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Fillerup has auctioned disconnected a uncommon console. He erstwhile owned the gold-plated Wii that was delivered to Queen Elizabeth II arsenic portion of a selling stunt.

He initially hoped to merchantability it for $300,000, but it yet went for a importantly smaller terms of $36,000 (just nether £29,000).

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