I say buy it. 100 bucks for a Wii is a good deal. And then buy and play only originals.

Modded consoles CAN play original games.

If you feel like the temptatio is too big, well, de- mod it.

Lets suppose is a gun. If you buy it to do some targe practice is fine. It doesn't mean that you MUST kill people just because you have a gun.

The console is innocent

Can't you restore it to orginal firmware? Or is it hardware modded?

DON'T!!!

well ill say get it and if there are some wii games that look good but you know you wont buy then play them modded. but if you know you would buy the game buy it simple really.

how is that a stupid way of thinking there are alot of games that dont get released in certain regions and if you can get it another way why not? if they stopped releasing your favorite game franchise in your country would you import it if it was still in your language? Probably so.

Let's get the facts straight:

1. The Wii is modded

2. The games are pirate

A modded Wii is no problem at all, specially if it is soft-modded (i bet it's the Homebrew Channel), and contrary to what people think, a modded Wii (just as any modded console) CAN PLAY ORIGINAL GAMES, but best of all, can get additional features that weren't there from the beginning, and if it is too tempting, just reinstall official firmware. I say, buy the Wii.

The 200 games are the real problem, but to every problem there's a solution: Buy the Wii for the price and tell the guy that throw the pirated games away, if he still wants to sell them to you as part of the whole package, then throw the games out yourself, and just keep the Wii.

Using the NRA's favorite saying about guns: "Modded-Wiis don't pirate games, people pirate games"

Nintendo really doesn't give too many reasons not to mod your wii.

I mean, the online support is kinda sad so you don't really even need it online, there is no external hard drive support if you don't mod, emulation support is free if you mod it...etc

With that said, support games you enjoy people, or they will stop making them. I've learned my lesson with Sega and the Dreamcast.

importing and pirating is not the same.

what I was trying to say is that I wouldn't think any less of someone because they pirated a discontinued game that was never released where they live and therefore was prohibitively expensive.  A good example is how I've recently started importing PSX games, the cost of buying the NSTC Playstation (which I got fairly cheap as it was off my cousin) and all the games comes to around £600 ($933).  If someone else got all the same games as I, just free and played them on epsxe or another emulator, I wouldn't see too much of a problem as the game is not resulting in one less sale and the alternative methods of getting the game are prohibitively expensive.  My only gripe with it is that it is off course not benefiting the 2nd hand retro market and that one could argue that if one didn't download the game, one would buy another game instead.  

I despise all other game piracy, such as R4 cards.

You have a policy of not buying pirated games,  which is really just another way of saying that you know piracy is wrong, and that you have moral standards.  But you're giving justifications to give up your morals.

Look at the reality.  $100 for a Wii.  Normally it would cost $200.  You won't pay the $100 difference to buy a new Wii, so it is unlikely you'd buy very many $50 games.  I think you're just seeing a quick and easy way to obtain over $1200 worth of games and hardware for $100.  So the only question you need to answer to yourself is:  How much are your morals worth?