Cease fire: PSP-3000 pre-orders at Amazon cancelled |
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Uh oh. Hearing this after all the PSP-3000 interlacing screen complaints and that bit about the PlayStation EU site withdrawing mention of the new PSP model...? It kinda makes you wonder, y'know? Are these mere coincidences or not?
Thanks to a comment made by akedewboy in a previous article, we now hear about Amazon suddenly cancelling pre-orders for the PSP-3000. A thread on the PlayStation US forum posts the following cancellation email from Amazon:
Hello from Amazon.com.
We are sorry to report that we will not be able to obtain the following item(s) from your order:
"PSP 3000 Limited Edition 4GB Memory Entertainment Pack"
Though we had expected to be able to send this item to you, we've since found that it is not available from any of our sources at this time. We realize this is disappointing news to hear, and we apologize for the inconvenience we have caused you.
We have cancelled this item from your order. [see full email in Via link below]
Some forum goers have also confirmed this - they've gotten the same cancellation email, and still, no one has found any reason why this has happened. Quite simply, it could be a shortage in Amazon's supply chain, as the email suggests.
Be that as it may, it's sparked quite a bit of speculation among other people. Some believe that these orders were turned down because they placed too late, either that or only a certain specific PSP-3000 color or bundle has become unavailable.
While some point to Amazon as the bottleneck for the cancellations, the other side of the speculation bandwagon points at Sony. Another theory holds that these cancellations have something to do with the PSP-3000's interlacing scanlines, and that Sony is doing a recall.
We also did some digging of our own, and according to this other guy in the PS forums, even BestBuy has cancelled its pre-orders (too bad he doesn't have a source to back him up though).
Various online retailers, however, seem to still have the PSP-3000 available. This leaves us at an impasse. Are these cancellations universal for all stores - all kinds of bundles and colors? With that, we suggest you follow up with whichever retailer or branch you've pre-ordered a unit from. We'll update you guys as soon as we get word.
Thanks to akedewboy for the heads up!
Related articles:
- Fishy, fishy: PSP-3000 pulled out from PlayStation site, silent recall imminent?
- PSP-3000 interlacing issues are "features", won't be fixed
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Atleast i have my psp 3000.***waits for it to be hacked***
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Yea right. The people who bought these 3000 series PSPs should go and return it to the store so that Sony can see that we the customers are not stupid and next time they know to sell us quality *****, not this.
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Even so there's no way I'm buying one until they decide to get rid of this 'feature' like they did with actual useful ones (memory card reader, b/w compatibility, extra USB ports) on the PS3 (glad I got in on the MSG4 bundle).
My Phat PSP is doing awesome anyway so there's no reason to really upgrade yet.
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The same happened for the PS3, or for the psp a week ago on amazon Japan.
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you dont want to take it back
my x360 has RROD and a new game i really want to play comes out tomorrow
i'll send my 360 back and hope MS get back to me with in the month....phuck that
when you buy a console ,you want it to work...now
you dont want to send it back to claim some warrenty
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And about nintendo I don't know much. Their systems are always reliable and sturdy cuz they actuallly care more and plan in advance.
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Crack is bad for you.
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even big lcd companies wont accept returns unless the dead pixels are taking up more than 2% of the screen
and the fact it still works and is playable means you should not need to take it back
unlike a RROD x360
basically microsoft NEED a good return policy because they're hardware is crap
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