Let's dig out all old news!!!!
Account only on your console! SD card only for save games!! No way to play downloaded games at friends'!!! Wii U doomed anyways!!!!

Sending it in could be one way but the infrastructure is now there such that that shouldn't be necessary.

When you contact Nintendo, inform them of the new console's Mac address.   The old console will be locked out of your account and the new console assigned to it.

I admit that this is speculation on my part as well.  But it's the logical conclusion based on the infrastructure rather than the negative conclusion being thrown around based on nothing.

You don't have a phone?

Isn't this old news? I thought everybody knew this before hand...

thx, does indeed sound logical ...

but I hope the wiiu is as sturdy as my other nintendo consoles/handhelds since non of them died on me before and I think I owned every piece of them you could buy in europe except the gb pocket (edit: and gamecube, how could i forgot this -_- ) ...

Bad news: one after one.
This train cannot be stoped now.

as long as you are a zelda fan you still will buy it ...
at least i will do it, even if zelda hd was the only game on the wiiu :p

Yup. If impressions continue in this way I'll wait until Zelda is announced/released. At least that was how I get the Cube and Wii.

People are trying to ready too much into this. It is not that different than what was said for the Wii.

Because when my Wii died, I had to send it to Nintendo, which fixed it for $75 (plus $5 shipping). And almost everything was transferred over (I lost about three saves files because I had a memory failing issue and I had to reload my bought content).

So I doubt Nintendo will cause everything to be lost.

Ironically, this costs Nintendo sales because people repair rather than buy new.

Mike from Morgantown

PS -- For most purchasers, this is not a big deal.

Things to do besides being glued to the internet all day waiting for Wii U news. Posted it because I seen it on Kotaku. This is a horrible feature that shouldn't be there in the first place. Locking IDs to memory cards is one thing, but an entire system in general is bad. Also nowhere does it state that they will change it. It states they will be able to link it to other devices such as phones, and FUTURE Nintendo machines. Of course a simple firmware upgrade could fix the atrocious system altogether.

Which took them over 2 years to implement.

Not that i'm too bothered about this. Customer service will transfer things over in the event of a breakdown, no doubt.

@PullusPardus: If you bought your console out-region, you could possibly get someone in the correct region to place the call for you.