NeilShapiro

I never even thought about if the console was stolen....

Well, I will not be downloading anything until the policy changes. I did decide to download one thing -- Epic Mickey 2 -- just so I would have it on the console itself and also to check the process on a big, long file and make sure my connection was up to it. Worked fine though it took a few hours. But beyond the no-replacements ruling I was also disappointed in the electronic manual. I can't believe it is as full a manual as you get with the disk. This manual doesn't show controls or even some of the most basic stuff. Just how to hookup controllers and the like. Two strikes. And, I would have stopped at one!

Nollog: Thanks for the reply but that is why I contacted Nintendo Tech Support. I did think they would tell me they could transfer purchases. They specifically said that this was NOT a service. (Other than sending the the old machine and praying they could access the hard disk and buying a new machine at full list.)

Spear Guy: Thanks for the reply. If indeed that should happen and a future update makes such log on possible and transfers a reality then that is when I would start to download on this system. But how often have you seen a company say something is in the future and it never, ever happens? I think it would be rolling the dice to have hundreds of dollars of software on a system that has no present way to recover the data and less than a promise of any future way to do it.