It has been confirmed for ALL REGIONS that opera is free till july 2007 at which time you must purchase through the shop, the price has not been announced and whether you need to download a whole new version and delete the old free one has alos not been annouced, the fee per month or one time not annouced but if you look at the NDS opera it is a one time fee which I'm guessing is going to be the same for Wii, you have till july 2007 to get this purchase info, I'm sure by then more will be said but for now it is really general, goto opera.com and, forget it I'll post a link - http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/09/26/ read this and you have the ONLY CONFIMED info for opera on Wii.