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the_dengle said:
Chrizum said:
the_dengle said:

But what is lost if you make a second NNID? What does it matter?

You have to purchase all your games a second time.

But you don't though. If you bought them physically, you can play them on any 3DS. If you bought them digitally, you simply play them on the 3DS you bought them on.

Am I allowed to question why someone would buy two 3DSs? I get that it can be a hassle to unplug your home console from one TV and plug it into a different one, and the solution to that problem is to buy a second console, but that isn't an issue for handhelds. Or is that question phrased rudely? I haven't accidentally called anyone a rich fuck again, have I?

On Xbox Live, PSN or Steam, you only have to purchase a game once, and you can play it forever on any system you want. With Nintendo, you need to purchase the game once for every system you want to play on. Your account is also bound to only one console, whereas on other online services there is no such restriction.

Call it a first world problem all you want, but Nintendo really has a long way to go in the online department. The fact that it's free is somewhat of a justification, but not much.