Okay, I got a "US/Canadian" Wii in the post this morning. So here I am thinking I can just jump on the shop channel and get some points with my UK credit card just like my Japanese Wii, but using Canada or USA as my country setting resulted in getting asked for address/postcode which naturally wouldn't work since UK postcodes aren't like either of those countries. Brasil does have a UK style postcode and that was the only information required. It worked a treat.
What I'm wondering is if any of our other members who live in the Western hemisphere outside of Canada and the United States also have to input address information against credit cards (the Japanese Wii has no such requirement and I don't recall having to input any for my PAL Wii set to UK) and more importantly if you find differences between the WiiWare/VC release schedule we show for North America and what you see in your local version of the Wii shop.
It doesn't seem to care whether or not the information you put in is your actual billing address as long as the address is real.
i live in the US, but my billing address for my card is Norwegian, but i can still buy points by giving my US address, no matter how little it has to do with the card.
I wasn't sure about that. Okay, good to know. Makes the whole thing quite pointless. The clear advantage of going with Brasil for folk in the UK is only having to enter a postcode and the fact that you can enter your own, then!
!Viva (or whatever it is in Portuguese) Brasil!
I'm still curious about how shop contents compare though -- am I risking not seeing certain games in the release lists because I've picked Brasil for convenience? Some of our Mexican readers noted a VC release didn't appear in their shop recently, for example.
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