It would be interesting if this is a holiday test run to see if anyone would be interested in a handicapped Wii Minus (ha, see what I did... nevermind). Not likely. However, releasing the thing in Canada does make it perfectly usable in the US so if Nintendo cans it after a possible (likely) tepid reception, collectors in a much larger region will swarm it like my near helpless survivor in ZombiU. Then, Nintendo can say, "Just kidding!" and release a wi-fi version of the Mini with SD Card slot and USB intact.