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Re:Nintendo’s Resurgence by jle17 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:09AM (#15904982)
> ties purchases to the hardware instead of a single account. If something goes wrong with my switch all my purchases die with it.

I believe your purchases are tied to your account, but can only be used on your "active" console, which you have to deactivate (or get deactivated by Nintendo if you don't have access to it) before being able to use them on another console.

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Re:Nintendo’s Resurgence by jamesgeck0 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:25AM (#15906782)
Yeah; prior to the Switch you had to do a more clunky system transfer, but purchases haven't been tied to the console since the WiiU/3DS.
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Re:Nintendo’s Resurgence by MBCook on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:14PM (#15910403)
That’s new to me. I knew they were going to fix it but I didn’t know anything had changed yet. Thanks.
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