Everyone that purchases second-hand consoles and have acquired a pre-owned
Wii U are the winners with this system flaw, which was found by one user of the console, who got it pre-owned.
Basically this user ('
DSN2K' from Neogaf forums) purchased his console from someone else, who formatted the system just before handing it to him. When the user got home and started to use it he noticed that the purchase history from the eShop is being stored in the console directly; therefore if previous owner purchased games and downloaded them, the new owners can re-download the games for free.
After the first user reported the issue, there have been multiple reports from users of the same site, expressing that they have also found all the history from previous owners, and that they are able to download the games for free.
This "bug" is definitely costing a lot of money to Nintendo, as people that purchase used Wii U are now downloading games for free, which makes complete sense due to
Nintendo's Network IDs being tethered to the system they are created on. Seems like this time the company didn't take into consideration the fact that users might re-sell their consoles...
