Bringing Wiiware and Virtual games to a friends house....

[Crow550]

Can you gift a game.

Then when there done can they gift it back to you?

Just wondering....

So if I was going a friends house and wanted to bring Donkey Kong Country to play 2 player, I can gift it to him. Then after we play at his house, he can gift it back to me?


LOOK AT THE POSTS BELOW.

 

[biggestmuff]

Nintendo Gifting

You're not really sending a game to someone. You browse the Wii Shop Channel, select the item you want to gift, then buy it for you friend using your Wii Points. Your friend is then notified that you gifted an item to them. They may then download the gifted item.

 

[Crow550]

Yeah I looked in the Wii Shop channel and figured it out. Damn it!

You can't throw a game on the SD card and play at a friends house........But you can bring a Wii or Game Cube game....

So whatever happened to fair use? You own the game why not be able to bring it to friend's house. The game could read the console ID to know it's not yours and disable copying to the Wii system or something.... Come on Nintendo!

 

[erwos]

Originally posted by: Crow550
So whatever happened to fair use? You own the game why not be able to bring it to friend's house. The game could read the console ID to know it's not yours and disable copying to the Wii system or something.... Come on Nintendo!

Fair use is an affirmative defense, not a right. Maybe it should be, but Nintendo is under no legal obligation to enable what you're asking for.

These games only run if they get copied to the other system, FYI. VC and WiiWare games cannot play straight off the SD card - the reason 4.0 update only makes this a one-step process for the end user, not the system.

 

[Crow550]

Yeah......

The future with this idea of consoles and hand helds using downloading instead of physical disks or carts is gonna suck if you can't bring the title to a friend's house to play and or let borrow and such.

So this is BS.