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Fishy, fishy: PSP-3000 pulled out from PlayStation site, silent recall imminent? |
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A couple of observant people in the PlayStation EU forums pointed out that almost every single mention of the PSP-3000 has been removed from the official PlayStation EU site's PSP section.
True enough, when you go to the website (see Via link) and check out the "Hardware" section of the PSP, there's no whiff nor word about the PSP Brite. Meanwhile, doing a keyword search on the EU site for "PSP-3000" now only gives you a handful of hits: one from an October 15 news item, and the rest being LGC 2008 press material from August. Why is that?
Over at the PlayStation US website, the same section (namely, PSP -> Hardware) does make mention of the PSP-3000, but with a minor tweak. As some folks at DCemu point out, the Ratchet-PSP bundle has a slight word change in the PSP-3000's description:
They also appear to have changed the description on the American site:
Originally
'This system features an improved LCD screen with the widest color gamut'
Now it says;
'This system features an advanced LCD screen with the widest color gamut'
It's pretty hard to deduce anything concrete out of these weird changes - maybe conspiracy theorists are just getting ahead of themselves. For all intents and purposes, we don't have to panic (yet?): maybe the PlayStation EU site is just undergoing some staggered construction for some PSP-3000 blow-out feature in the near future?
The only reason why this comes as a surprise (a pretty bothersome surprise) is because these discoveries were made following all those recent reports about the PSP-3000 interlacing issues features that people have been complaining about. With that in mind, online speculation now holds that Sony might be silently recalling the PSP-3000 and replacing the old units with "advanced" LCDs.
Care to pitch in your own theory?
Related articles:
- PSP-3000 interlacing issues are "features", won't be fixed
- PSP-3000 has interlacing issues, visible scanlines?
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http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=psp&thread.id=3401928
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public callback would of been nicer than a silent one
also more costly so kudos to sony for at least addressing a known problem before its in major circulation
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Sony: I can't wait to sell our consumers these awesome new PSPs with awesomer screens!
Us: These screens aren't that great...
Sony: Oh...but can't you see the scanlines? Isn't that what you want?
Us: DO NOT WANT.
Sony.
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Given that I don't drop or break electronics and have no use at all for the iR port, and that my PSP-2000 seems to run all the homebrew I have... I'll go with the 2000 being the better model.
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