Resetting 2nd hand 3ds

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I have just bought a 2nd hand New 3ds, Animal Crossing Home Designer edition, which has been sent to us with the nintendo online id of the previous owner still on it. I was going to use the wipe all function to clear it, but this resets all licences and deletes a lot of info other than just the id. Since the game is not hard-wired into the system I'm worried it would be deleted, too.
On a Nintendo forum trying to get a straight answer I've just been told that the game cannot be passed on. Could this be the case? Surely it is the same as any second-hand video game and can be resold?
Has anyone else had this issue and resolved it? All the responses I'm getting are either for the older model or refer to transferring and account from another machine.
On a Nintendo forum trying to get a straight answer I've just been told that the game cannot be passed on. Could this be the case? Surely it is the same as any second-hand video game and can be resold?
Has anyone else had this issue and resolved it? All the responses I'm getting are either for the older model or refer to transferring and account from another machine.
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I would recommend you buy a physical copy of the game over download as they can be sold on without any problems and shopping around they can often be cheaper.
For something so simple it took a lot of clearing up with Nintendo.
Oh, apparently using the option of deleting the original nnid would not work which seems a bit odd to me, but I'm not arguing about it.