Hi,

we bought a wii console and wii fit here in Switzerland (City disc in Jelmoli). In my experience, it's not the console (this we set to English easily enough) but the games you need to look out for.

A lot of the games (e.g. Wii sports that comes with the console, and Wii fit) have a little (circular? can't quite remember) symbol with representations of different flags on the back of the box and the number 5, showing that it is multilingual (i.e. 5 languages).

Other games don't have this and are not multi-lingual, and after confirming by asking in the shops here, and having failed to find English versions, we have ordered games online from the UK via Amazon / Play / etc..

So in a nutshell, we check on the back of the game boxes for the language.

Maybe the language versions of the consoles you are seeing are bundled with additional games for which the languages are fixed?

hope this helps.