[AutotelicBrown]

Originally Posted by dAnceguy117

No idea if I'm in the majority on this issue, but I would advise against purchasing digital versions of retail games on Nintendo consoles. If you lose your 3DS or drop it in the pool... poof! Games are gone. Sinking a couple hundred dollars into attaining a handful of games only seems like a safe investment to me if I have the option to replace the hardware and keep those games.

If you contact Nintendo identifying your system serial and account they actually help you out recovering your digital purchases on a new system in case of irrecoverable hardware failure. Other than that, there's already a tool to transfer all your purchases to another system.

It's definitely worse than something like Steam, but not THAT bad.

Not to mention that a couple of relevant titles are digital-only.