| kitler53 said:
I'm not sure what to make of your question. when i purchase a game on psn i can download it to my ps3 and the game is tied to the specific ps3 i download it to. if the ps3 breaks or whatever i lose that license. now sony makes it someone okay-ish by giving me 3 licenses (so up to 3 machines) but it is still tied to the machine. if i have have bad luck and break 3 ps3's - poof - my game purchase is unavailible for me to play on my 4th ps3. my only option to get around this machine locking is to use the ps3 to ps3 transfer. this allows me to move all of the licenses from machine A to B deleting all files on A after the move. so no, i'm not talking about game saves. |
So what you are asking is if you break 3 Wii U's will you still be able to redownload your games to a 4th Wii U?
And your situation is still not a matter of software being tied to hardware, it's a matter of a limited number of licenses. Tied to hardware means the game is downloaded to a hardware account. Like a friend code. It's locked to that one piece of hardware. Like with the Wii's WiiWare service. You download a game with no user account associated with that game. Even the friends code system has 2 levels. A system friend code and an individual game friend code so a downloaded game is linked with the hardware, not a user account. Thankfully the 3DS reduced that to just a single system friend code and can be linked to your Club Nintendo account. Because Wii U will have user accounts, sofware will be associated with the user account that downloads it.
So it seems you're confusing licensing allotments with software tied to a user account.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
