[quote name='Wolfpup']Yeah, Ninendo's DRM is the shittiest around. Insanely you can actually easily tie your Nintendo.com account to your Wii/DS, and they know what you've gotten, and it shows up that you've gotten it on Nintendo.com...but they don't care! They don't let you transfer it!
I hate activation period, but I'm sure I'd still be getting a ton of virtual console stuff (and probably stuff like Cave Story and the Blaster Master game) if it had Xbox or Playstation or Steam or iTunes style activation.
I lost over $100 when my first Wii died, and my second one sounds similar and has at least a couple of times had the same issue that eventually killed the first one.
I have to hand it to Microsoft that they've actually fixed issues with the Xbox-they added the license transfer thing after the fact. They even fixed the noise problem. Pretty unusual and cool to see major issues like that be almost completely fixed DURING a console lifespan! (Though then again, this is Microsoft, and I suppose they're used to proactively adding and fixing things like with Windows, where XP SP3 was arguably as big of an update as some whole pay OS upgrades.)
So anyrate, yeah, it's bullshit, and I wish we'd see VC stuff, Blaster Master, Cave Story, etc. show up on other systems, or on disc, or whatever. Sucks that the Wii has the most downloadable stuff I want, and the crappiest download system (only game I absolutely *NEEDED* on the other services was Shadow Complex).[/QUOTE]
Not to console-war here, but what are the odds of your Wii dying on you?! You've got to be unlucky for that.
Even if Microsoft has a better console-replacement service, it says a lot that they... have a console-replacement service!
I actually never even considered the idea that my Wii (and content) could die on me. I've just never had a Nintendo console die on me, and I've owned them since the NES! So I feel for you, but that is some bad luck you have...
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