| Sempuukyaku said:
Do you live in Asia? Call NCL. Do you live in Australia? Call NOA (Australia)
You can easily call them. |
Keeping your content that way is possible, but not convenient for the customer. Would you be satisfied if every time you changed your iPod you had to send it to Apple's assistance to keep your content? Would you think a CD player brand that requires servicing each new device in the shop to play your collection of old CDs is doing a good job at it?
I live in Europe, and I had to send my Wii in for -I think- a GPU failure. I had to take my time to find a suitable box, package it, send it in, communicate with the help desk. If I had lived in Brazil or South Africa I suspect that it couldn't even have been possible, or it could have costed a lot in shipment to NA or Europe. Add to that that my time on certain work days is worth enough and my schedule so busy that I might find more convenient to buy a new $129 device in a 24/7 shop than having to drive to a post office according to their opening times.
Plus, as metioned by KylieDog, you're still missing a very common case for handhelds, that is the trade-in for a new model.
You _can_ rely on N. to have your content transferred in the right circumstances, but having a system tied to the identity of the buyer and not the single piece of hardware is much more customer friendly.
