Confirmation Wii is not region free

After conflicting reports from Nintendo reps regarding the Wii being region free, reports are coming in that further Nintendo reps have also confirmed a lack of region-free capabilities in the Wii. More Details inside! Though Perrin Kaplan, VP of co...

After conflicting reports from Nintendo reps regarding the Wii being region free, reports are coming in that further Nintendo reps have also confirmed a lack of region-free capabilities in the Wii.

More Details inside!
Though Perrin Kaplan, VP of corporate affairs, confirmed last week that the Wii was region-free for first-party titles, another Nintendo spokesperson at the UK Wii event was quick to contradict Kaplan’s report. Now, Go Nintendo are reporting that reps from within Nintendo have confirmed that the Wii will NOT be region free.

This is quite dissapointing for us Australian’s who were, for a moment, quite excited about the prospect of importing titles without the hassle of having to use software such as the Freeloader.

Toby Mizzi

First gaming experiences were with my older brother playing Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Master System and Sega Mega Drive. I was about 12 years old when the PS1 and the N64 were just about to be released, and I wanted to get a PS1 based on my experience playing some demo PS1 games at a Video Games Heaven store. On the day we came to lay buy the PS1, they had demo N64 consoles set up in the middle of the shopping centre and we naturally took some time to sample the goods. Dad, who barely played games, decided that the N64 would be a better console and I have never looked back since then. Don't get the time to play games as much as I did when I was younger, though I still enjoy nothing more than sitting back on the couch and being absorbed into a totally different world.