RUMOR - Used Wii Us allow you to download games the previous owners purchased?

Posted by GoNintendo Jan 04 2013 00:23 GMT in Nintendo Stuff

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* http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=506656

* http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=193747

Good for those buying preowned if true, bad for those trading in! We're hearing that it is possible to re-download games that the previous owner purchased online, even through a different Nintendo Network ID. This would mean game downloads are tied to system, not NNID. Anyone else out there able to verify this?

Rumor: Pre-Owned Wii U Consoles Let You Download Someone Else's Games For Free - kotaku

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interesting side-effect. Downloaded games are shared amongst all the accounts on the console, apparently even if that account is deleted. It's a nice "feature" since it sort of allows you to resell your downloadable games, but I doubt Nintendo intended this to happen.

Reply by Francis Jan 04 2013 15:46 GMT

This is going to get patched within the next couple of months, calling it now.

Reply by Gold Prognosticus Jan 04 2013 16:06 GMT

If Nintendo *did* intend for this to happen and also added the ability to transfer games to a new console, then suddenly everyone would go from hating Nintendo's DRM to loving it.

Reply by Francis Jan 04 2013 16:32 GMT

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