funny you should reply to this thread.

Mine broke yesterday,retailer replaced it free of charge.

quote from Nintendo

"Im sorry sir but unless you unlinked your nintendo account from your old system you cannot pair it with the new one,but you can use the same email address to make a new one (yeh fat lot of good that does me,now Ive lost all my online stats on games wtf....) also we are sorry sir but we cannot transfer any of your purchaces from the eshop to your new console,my advice would be take your new console back,get the broken one send it to us to fix and we will get you your data back.Thats the only way you won't lose out on your purchaces"

Ermmmmmm

let me think about that now.....

NOPE

Make sure you do not ever buy anything from the nintendo ehop.Its as well I only bought one game,and learn psychic abilities so you know to unlink your nintendo network Id off the soon to break system before it breaks so you can use it on a replacement.

What a joke lol