[Wii U] Your Nintendo Network ID is tied to your Wii U; so don't you lose or break it

[Wii U] Your Nintendo Network ID is tied to your Wii U; so don't you lose or break it

Here's probably one of the more disappointing pieces of news I've had to report on the Wii U today (worse, I feel, than the inability to use your Wii U-formatted external HDD on other Wii U's).

Kotaku is reporting that your Nintendo Network ID is tied to the Wii U you set it up on. If you somehow lose your Wii U then you'll lose access to your account, so you can forgot picking up a second hand Wii U if yours dies as well as logging in on your friend's Wii U.

Talk about disappointing - but this may not be the case in the future. Nintendo has a somewhat vague statement on their support page referring to using your Nintendo Network ID on other devices.

"Future" consoles sounds pretty mysterious, it could mean they'll release an update down the road to allow you to sign into your NNID on other Wii U's or it could be referring to using a new Nintendo console/adding NNID functions to the 3DS. Who knows at this point, but until we do know this is pretty disappointing news.

Hopefully Nintendo will be able to do something about it soon.

Written by: Kyran Morrison

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