The Wii U is getting the classic region lock treatment, so, as the tradition goes, you won't be able to import your most wanted foreign games and play them on an un-hacked Wii U console. This has been a long standing tradition that began with the NES, and moved on through the SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii, and the 3DS line of systems, leaving the Game Boy (and technically, the Virtual Boy), as the only console line Nintendo had that wasn't region locked.