Playasia just reported that it's fully region locked and you can't connect with other region networks either. So it's not even known if you can communicate between US and Japanese Wii's to play games online when they hit.
I think I'm going to have to pass on the Wii for now, and just wait and get a Zboz when the Lost Planet special edition system comes out.
I'll look into a Wii when people start to get around the region encoding.


