Send Help: DSi Ware purchases trapped in your handheld
Well, a lot of you early adopters of Nintendo's DSi are out of luck if you want to pick up one of the new colors. Well, only out of luck if you purchased DSi ware games and want to transfer them to a new DSi that is. Nintendo of Australia have announced that any purchases made can not be transfered to a different DSi. It seems that any content you download onto your DSi is locked to that particular console.
There are a few exceptions to this rule, but they have caveats. If you happen to break your DSi and then get a new one, Nintendo will transfer your downloaded content from the broken console to the new one. The big headache is that you have to send BOTH to Nintendo for them do transfer your DSi purchases. Lame, isn't it? So sorry if you thought about picking up that pretty in pink DSi, your data is locked to your old boring one (until it breaks).
Hopefully, Nintendo will work towards an easy upgrade path for their customers, because, isn't the customer always right? The customer should be able to transfer their legally purchased content to whatever DSi they own. Even a sort of iTunes de-authorization setup would be better than forcing their customers to jump through hoops.