A unified account system will be implemented later this year with the launch of the Wii U. Eventually this same account system will be made compatible with Nintendo 3DS systems. At this time we have no additional details to offer and nothing to indicate how or if this will work outside the United States and Canada. In the meantime, if the system has a problem, taking it to an Authorized Service Center will maintain the Nintendo eShop account. If the system is stolen, we can transfer the account to a new system once we are provided with a valid police report. NoC customer service member, David Marshall

For anyone who’s picked up a 3DS XL and has gone through the process of transferring games, you now know that games can only be on one system at a time and are not synchronized with a universal account.  Looks like that could all be changing with the Wii U, and….great news for us wanting games on both the original 3DS and the XL… could see that extend to the 3DS.

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