Popid said:
Because some of us would never Softmod the Wii.
Me for example, I have two Wii's one with Wiikey II and for the other one WODE, so just Modchips.
I would never like to Softmod, to many different cios and ios and bricks, just putting DVD (Wiikey II) or Harddisc/SD Card (WODE) and play, thats what I want and thats why I care for a Pal release.
bricks? ios's?
c'mon, guy, if you knew anything at all about the wii you would know that this is not true at all. unless you are installing out of region wads or themes, you have nothing to worry about. and the ios's can be taken care of in 10 minutes time or less with pimp my wii, or just by knowing what you are doing.
in fact, modchips and playing from disc, is a bad idea all together. you are very misinformed, friend... too bad... you are missing out on amazing homebrew like wiiflow and wiimc, not including the emulators... such a shame...
EDIT:
you realize with a modded wii it becomes region-free, right? therefore a PAL release means nothing... it will work exactly the same except you will most likely have missing content with the PAL release compared to an NTSC release... you are just digging yourself a deeper hole with these inconsistencies...