New Hardware Models Highlight Nintendo's No-Transfer Policy

An article at Wired discusses the difficulties involved in transferring games that were purchased and downloaded online when users replace their Wii or DSi. "Neither the Wii nor Nintendo’s portable DSi consoles have an upgrade path for downloadable content, since games are tied not to user accounts but to specific machines. It’s impossible for a user to copy content from an old console to a new one. Even some Wii owners whose machines have malfunctioned said it was difficult, or impossible, to get Nintendo to transfer the software licenses at its headquarters." One gamer, who bought the recently released black Wii console, explained that she got Nintendo to transfer her games, but needed to "mail both of her Wii consoles to Nintendo, and wait two weeks," hardly a convenient solution.

Re:Wii stores downloads locally?

[noidentity]

Pirates have reported that after installing pirated games, they did not need to pay to get a free re-download from the Wii Shop Channel.

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Re:WTF

[theeddie55]

unless you're over 120 years olds, which i doubt, you weren't around for nintendo's inception.