Chapter 2099
Super Freak
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Re: Nintendo 3DS XL
So I've still been bouncing back and forth between the whole 'e-shop download' vs 'physical copy,' and after much debate, I'm starting to realize that the eShop download route may not be such a good idea for me (at least as it sits now.)
Come to find out (and Bane eluded to this earlier, in a post), but the downloaded games you buy are associated with the system that bought them, NOT the eShop account that it was purchased under (nor the Nintendo Club account that registered them.) So....and most of you may or may not have known....but it's news to me....if your current system breaks for whatever reason, and you simply want to take out your SD and put it into a new system, the card won't be readable. Basically, you must do a system to system transfer first. And while I can understand WHY it's required, for those of us that break a system or have it stolen, etc., you're basically 'up a creek without a paddle.' You're 'old' SD card is useless unless you transferred it to a new system first, and thus all of those purchases (and thus money spent) are lost.
Am I understanding all of that right? Because that was a big 'woah' for me. Something I didn't quite understand at first....Kind of big deal, IMO, and makes me glad I'm realizing this now.
So I've still been bouncing back and forth between the whole 'e-shop download' vs 'physical copy,' and after much debate, I'm starting to realize that the eShop download route may not be such a good idea for me (at least as it sits now.)
Come to find out (and Bane eluded to this earlier, in a post), but the downloaded games you buy are associated with the system that bought them, NOT the eShop account that it was purchased under (nor the Nintendo Club account that registered them.) So....and most of you may or may not have known....but it's news to me....if your current system breaks for whatever reason, and you simply want to take out your SD and put it into a new system, the card won't be readable. Basically, you must do a system to system transfer first. And while I can understand WHY it's required, for those of us that break a system or have it stolen, etc., you're basically 'up a creek without a paddle.' You're 'old' SD card is useless unless you transferred it to a new system first, and thus all of those purchases (and thus money spent) are lost.
Am I understanding all of that right? Because that was a big 'woah' for me. Something I didn't quite understand at first....Kind of big deal, IMO, and makes me glad I'm realizing this now.
