That’s actually false. If you make digital purchases on your Wii, Wii U, or a system in the 3DS family, your purchases will in fact be tied to an account. The Wii U requires you to have a NNID linked to it, where as the 3DS it’s optional, but if you make digital purchases on a system with a NNID linked on it your…

Yeah, I dunno, I have a rpi myself I have exactly for this, but I’m still going to buy Nintendo’s new NES for two reasons

A) Nintendo might not need my money, but I don’t mind giving it to them for (many) games that they haven’t seen a dime for in over two decades because of countless ROMs and emulators