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3ds update is going to block switching between country and delete currency
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Astral/H3X
Member
Wow. Glad I live in MURICA.
Kinda sucks, but I guess I can understand why there's some technical reason for it to be. Sucks, yes, but not really a case of them screwing people over on purpose.
Kinda sucks, but I guess I can understand why there's some technical reason for it to be. Sucks, yes, but not really a case of them screwing people over on purpose.
UncleSporky
Member
Also as stated by Bill Trinen in the Direct, when you want to download demos and free software in the future, they will require a login with your NNID. So if you want that stuff, you'll need to do this eventually anyway.
RazorbackDB
Member
i will be a canadian forever now.
Astral/H3X
Member
That's actually a really weird point! Hrm, I wonder how that sort of thing is going to play out. We don't know if the NNID is locked to a region on the Wii U basis, or if it's something determined by the 3DS, so it really could go either way.
sixteen-bit
Member
Now they're just taking region locking to the extreme.
ColossalLazy
Member
Me too.
Sleeplessnights
Banned
It's okay, I got a PAL Wii U and an NTSC 3DS. Those two might as well be made by different companies because they don't know the other one exists.
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
That's not the case on the WiiU.
Jade Knight 08
Member
Wow.... wooww!
Isn't that a crime to delete someone's money withtout consent or let users to retrieve/transfer other currencey to their original NNID/regional balance?
Isn't that a crime to delete someone's money withtout consent or let users to retrieve/transfer other currencey to their original NNID/regional balance?
Canis lupus
Member
Another reason not to bother with nintendo digital platform.
They just told you, which means they have your consent should you chose to do it anyway.
The Hermit
Member
Thank God I am Canandian... Or whatever people from Canada are.
Both devices are region locked so I don't see how that would've worked.
They aren't going to just force you to make a NNID without consent or a warning and the Nintendo Direct said to spend your leftover credit first.
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
Oh. Rats.
TouchMyBox
Member
All Canadians can still live in Alberta, right?
Prince Vultan
Banned
Just what I was thinking. I've always avoided digital purchases on 3DS (No Code of Princess or Senran Kagura for me
) for the usual reasons, but this sounds shady as hell.It can't be legal for them to just wipe your currency, can it? They have to reimburse somehow surely?
The fact that Nintendo is doubling down on region locking really rubs me the wrong way. I'm just about ready to forget about the 3DS for the time being as it has become a huge inconvenience.
They clearly don't care about customers who leave their home countries (a reality of business these days). I really don't wish to support this behavior on their part.
No chance I will "cave" and buy European versions of consoles I already own especially as a day one adopter. Would be nice if they had a program to trade in your console from one region for another or something.
They clearly don't care about customers who leave their home countries (a reality of business these days). I really don't wish to support this behavior on their part.
No chance I will "cave" and buy European versions of consoles I already own especially as a day one adopter. Would be nice if they had a program to trade in your console from one region for another or something.
Just what I was thinking. I've always avoided digital purchases on 3DS (No Code of Princess or Senran Kagura for me
It can't be legal for them to just wipe your currency, can it? They have to reimburse somehow surely?
Senran is getting a boxed version in EU.
SomedayTheFire
Member
Guess I'm also Canadian for good now.
Jade Knight 08
Member
Good News, I'm Canadian now.
sakipon
Member
Compared to what? Xbox 360 and PS3/Vita do not let you visit different regional stores with one account. That will be the case with Nintendo IDs aswell.
why tho? you can make your NNID wherever you want, apparently
Relaxed Muscle
Member
But you can create multiple accounts on those systems, is not the case on 3DS.
As always with Ninty: one step forward, two backwards
Canis lupus
Member
Thats why PSN/XBL werent going to delete my currency, Nintendo's digital platform is a mess, restrictions upon restrictions.
And even if you do purchase a game on the 360 it won't work.
Source: tried to buy a couple of games while I was in Canada, on my US account. The games would show up as corrupted data and would not work. Had to wait until I got back to the United States to actually be able to play the games I paid for.
The stupidity of this is I had access to Halo: Reach codes (from Canada) and they worked fine for redeeming on either US or Canadian accounts. But once you tried to use that copy of Reach in the other region, it showed up as corrupted again. Had to redeem another Reach on my roommate's Canadian account to get Reach to boot up.
sixteen-bit
Member
Creating alternate accounts for different countries doesn't wipe your balance and lock you to that store on PS3 and 360.
Only way to get DLC for import games like Gundam EX Versus on PS3 and the Cave STGs on 360.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you also can't have accounts from different regions on the same memory card on the vita, can you?