The world's most expensive game console

What do you buy the gamer who has everything this Christmas? It’s a toughie, but we think we have the ideal suggestion – the Wii Supreme.

This has to be the very last word in unabashed and thoroughly outrageous videogame decadence – Nintendo’s motion-sensing home console manufactured in over 2,500 grams of the shiniest 22carat gold known to man. Not only that, the three fascia buttons are encrusted with 78 0.25carat flawless diamonds.

This is the work of Stuart Hughes – or 'Goldstriker', as he’s perhaps more famously known. The Liverpool-based jeweller has a global reputation for taking everyday objects and lavishly smothering them with as much high-carat gold, platinum and glittering diamonds as space and good taste allows.

Current big-sellers include diamond-studded Blackberry phones – a snip at £3,995 – and a gold-encased iPod Touch that features 300 tiny WS1 diamonds for a cool £139,995. But rarest and most expensive of all is the iPhone 3GS Supreme, which is laden with 271 grams of 22ct solid gold, 53 flawless diamonds on the back, 63 on the front and a massive 7.1ct dazzler where the button should be. Assuming you ever dare press it, that is. And we doubt you will, given its £1.92 million price tag.

But back to the Wii Supreme which, understandably, is already being dubbed the “World’s most expensive games console”. Stuart Hughes and his associates spent six months lovingly crafting it and then buffing it to an impossible sheen. Small wonder that the asking price is a not entirely unreasonable £299,995.

Stuarthughes.com has more details if you’re interested. You’d better be quick about it too – the entire production run for this blingiest of bling things is just three, which means you'll be scrapping with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and the Sultan of Brunei for one!

http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/6b ... d556b.html

Wasn't there a gold PS3 a few days ago?

This stuff is boring, it looks as tacky as the chrome stuff they put on plastic.

I thought this was the topic about the gold PS3 making a resurgence up the page, actually.

The white plastic buttons look naff.

Makes the Gold PS3 Slim, I posted about, look cheap in comparison.

I await Rik's pics.

Surely they'll be some overheating issues?

mas22 wrote::shock:
Surely they'll be some overheating issues?

Oh come on, what's the average amount of time anyone plays a Wii for?

mokeyjoe wrote:The white plastic buttons look naff.

I bet they have little diamonds instead of leds in them.

mas22 wrote::shock:
Surely they'll be some overheating issues?

Gold is a very good conductor.

It'd act like a massive heatsink.

Tom Vekmas wrote:
Not only that, the three fascia buttons are encrusted with 78 0.25carat flawless diamonds.

Candy Kane wrote:
I bet they have little diamonds instead of leds in them.

You think?

poser wrote:You think?

Yeah.

I do.

I know what the Queen's getting for Christmas.

I have to admit that does look badass.

i wonder how much cash for gold would give me lol

Who would pay £1.92 million for a console that can't do HD? :fp:

Alpha Xmas wrote:Who would pay £1.92 million for a console that can't do HD?

It's £300,000.

The £1.92 mil is for an iPhone. Crazy.

Alpha Xmas wrote:Who would pay £1.92 million for a mobile phone that can't do HD?

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