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Sharu on 11 December 2013

Thats why I buying 3DS games on carts. Easy way to play with 2 3DS's at home. )



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TomaTito on 11 December 2013
d21lewis said:
TomaTito said:

Nintendo doesn't want families to just buy once and share it between 2-3 consoles. They prefer if you buy them individually on everyone of them :P

I'm also waiting for a single NNID to work on two WiiU's before I even think about going digital.

That's fine for Wii U since multiple people will use a single console.  I wish they'd find a way to let me and my daughter share digital 3DS games.  Nobody wants to share their portable.  I want to play some of the games I bought her but I don't wanna buy them twice!  

You can also have a home console in the living room and an extra one in the kids room, and you'd also want to share the digital purchases between them. That's the reason why I still buy retail because I actually own the game, since Nintendo's digital purchases are tied to the hardware.



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Rogerioandrade on 11 December 2013
superchunk said:

DAMN

So I have a Wii U and my two boys each have a 3DS XL. We all have had NNIDs since the Wii U launch.

I've always had all three systems tied to my original Club Nintendo account. 

After today's 3DS update, I help them link their existing NNIDs to their 3DSs. In the warnings it stated that only ONE NNID can be connected to ONE Club Nintendo account.

However, that makes no damn sense as these are family accounts and my kids shit is all bought by me. 

I did notice Club Nintendo allows you to create sub CN accounts off of your main CN account. I created each of them a sub account and still no joy. I go to link them to that account and bam, denied with a generic non-descriptive error.

I'll have to write Nintendo an email to see what's up. Anyone else have a solution beyond creating three fully distinct CN accounts?

I have four accounts/profiles on my WiiU (mine, my sister and my niece - Brazil accounts,  and an alternative account in the USA region) and we didn´t find any trouble in tying each Nintendo Network account with each 3DS and WiiU profile. It just take a little longer to update the Eshop.

However! We didn´t tie our Nintendo Club accounts to our Nintendo Network accounts.  We prefer to not do it so we can use the download codes in any account. 

The Eshop and club Nintendo has experienced lots of unstability yesterday, maybe it was just that. But I really don´t recommend tying the Club Nintendo to the Nintendo Network account.



Rogerioandrade on 11 December 2013
d21lewis said:
Now, I'm worried. My daughter and I both have 3DS systems and I buy everything. I hope we don't run into any issues.


I´d recommend do not tie your nintendo club accounts to your nintendo network accounts yet, unless you have separated accounts, one for you and one for your daughter



superchunk on 11 December 2013
Rogerioandrade said:

I have four accounts/profiles on my WiiU (mine, my sister and my niece - Brazil accounts,  and an alternative account in the USA region) and we didn´t find any trouble in tying each Nintendo Network account with each 3DS and WiiU profile. It just take a little longer to update the Eshop.

However! We didn´t tie our Nintendo Club accounts to our Nintendo Network accounts.  We prefer to not do it so we can use the download codes in any account. 

The Eshop and club Nintendo has experienced lots of unstability yesterday, maybe it was just that. But I really don´t recommend tying the Club Nintendo to the Nintendo Network account.

That's all find and dandy for codes on retail software.

However, what about digital? My kids also get eShop credit occasionally and buy their own specific apps/games. On big games like Zelda for instance, I'll tell them we'll get that on a cart so we can all share the same game. But on some VC titles or digital only stuff, then that is more of a personal preference and we buy digital.

I also want the Club Nintendo points for that in the sane account and I should be able to as a family, especially since Nintendo even knows these other NNIDs are set as child accounts under my account.