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Sony recalls Netherlands PSP supply

Posted Jun 7, 2007 at 7:04AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PSP Tags: Germany, homebrew community, Netherlands, Sony

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We just got word that there are some weird things going on in the Netherlands concerning Sony and handheld console PlayStation Portable. According to a respected distributor, giant corporate retail chains had to send back all PSP units to the warehouse because Sony asked them to.

Now, why would Sony do that? Our sources mentioned that Sony will replace these returned PSP units with new and "unflashable" ones. The distributor likewise said that the custom firmwares being produced by the homebrew community is causing poor game sales in the region.

Furthermore, it was said that the operation is on a nationwide level and one wouldn't find any PSP units in mainstream stores. It should be remembered that we ran a somewhat similar report concerning Sony Germany planning to hunt down websites offering PS2/PSP mods and downgrades.

We really would appreciate it if our readers from the Netherlands or nearby regions will help us ascertain these reports.

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Nothing like a healthy dose of speculation in your "news" stories to remind you that you're reading a blog and not a site with journalistic integrity.

Sony are not producing "unflashable" PSPs. They are very clear with their intention to increase the functionality of the device over its life. They may further restrict homebrew through hardware revisions, but they won't make a PSP with a fixed ROM instead of flash memory.

# EEEE EMMMMMMM AIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIII !!!!!!!!! — Guest 2007-06-07 09:59

youz teh sony employee

# I love holland — Guest 2007-06-07 10:02

Just went to a coffeeshop and bought some weed

Came back and played bleach 4 like a stoned, so much fun xD

# This is 100% true! — Guest 2007-06-07 10:07

I've been to my local gameshop (Castle Games) and the owner (Thijs) is a good friend of mine and he really had a letter from his exploitant saying he had to return all his black and white PSP's to the warehouse! He could keep the blue, pink, silver and champagne coloured ones, god knows why...

# zomg — Guest 2007-06-07 10:17

I'm not a Sony employer, but I have worked as a technical artist for two different developers who have released PSP games. One of which is a Sony published developer. So while I don't receive my paycheck with a big Sony stamp on it, I have access to some information regarding the technical aspects of each console.

The PSP is far from finished as far as functionality is concerned. Sony have many more plans for the device, and they would not release a unit that cannot be upgraded. It would not fit in with their future plans for the device.

The term "unflashable" in this story is incorrect.

# I love holland and Argentina — Guest 2007-06-07 10:36

JAJAJAJAJAJAJA LAST COMMENT IS SO MUCH FUN!!

# one thing — Guest 2007-06-07 10:37

theres only one thing to do before it happends to U.S

buy as many downgradeable psps. then when it happends and all stores sell unflashable psp, sell the psps for more than you bought for and u get a big profit =)

# I confirm — Kayne 2007-06-07 11:08

I live in the Netherlands or Holland and a friend at school is planning to buy a PSP so I could Downgrade and Flash 3.40 OE but he is saying there aint alot PSP's in the stores.

And this story totally fits so its a confirm here!

# weed — Guest 2007-06-07 11:31

Maybe the recalled PSP's contain weed?

it's holland after all ;/

# Huh — Guest 2007-06-07 11:31

Last time I checked, custom firmware didn't produce PSPs out of thin air.

# .. — Dodo 2007-06-07 12:48

American Idiot, don't be so bitter just because your bigass country is full of inbred retards, has no proper culture or rich history unlike most nations in Europe or elsewhere. Go crawl back to the hills.

# .. — Dodo 2007-06-07 12:51

It must be homebrew too!

# bwuains? — Guest 2007-06-07 13:28

hehehehe, lucky me! i heard of the recall action from a friend that is working @ replay-nijmegen..... i must admit piracy is pretty big in holland. as a collector i am ashamed of the dutch piracy scene. but for proper weed and other nice brain freezing drugs, you have to go to holland. american/british/(fill in any other country) drugs are BAD.

# Sony messed up — dark_eternal_x 2007-06-07 14:16

Sony asking to recall the psp systems without an explanation translates into (We hired some guy who can't speak english) and he either:

A. Spilled coffee onto the computer while flashing the psp system chips...

B. Got drunk and went to go play ping pong.

C. Like Gil Gerrard created a time machine and went back to ejaculate into the primordial ooze.

or

D. Openly admitted to his supervisor that he got into a fight with the soldering robot and then knocked it out of calibration so it made it put chips on the psp boards backwards.

I wish someone say Sony, and the US Government say "Hey, we fu**ed up, and we're recalling the psp because we don't want to be like Wal-Mart and sell Sh*t. Or elect a president who got his diploma while he was fishing for that harmonica shaped like a lobster from a vending machine because he couldn't blow the real thing without it hurting.

Here's to stupidity, the only virus that infects 9 out of every 4 people.

# Because — Guest 2007-06-07 14:56

HOLLAND'S SYMBOL IS ORANGE! OMG DUDE, WHAT ARE YOU? CHEERLEADER CLUB?

# asdf — Guest 2007-06-07 14:58

dude, bleach 4 sucks.. really. play tekken 3 or something else...

# LOL — Guest 2007-06-07 15:00

Dude, are you jewish? Hahaha.. What a genius... PROFIT!! PROFIT!! PROFIT!!

# recall — Guest 2007-06-07 15:01

sony is asking updates only (VIA INTERNET)

thats the new plan or from a original UMD

no more CUSTOM FIRMWARE will work...

# ummm — Guest 2007-06-07 15:32

when u update from internet,,, doesnt it just save it to ur memory card? cause if the ppl download from internet but they dont got a router so they go to starbucks, they download it off there then go home to connect to charger because the sony updates require 100% charge and connected. so some1 can just upload the update then custom firmware comes

# 654 — Guest 2007-06-07 15:43

http://wantsomemoola.com/

# sony — Guest 2007-06-07 16:19

Sony is never going to learn that they cannot win.

# first, what the hell are you all talkling about?! — Guest 2007-06-07 17:17

Second, why do you reply to messages like that all the time that is not relavent to the original message?

And third, Im not gonna hate sony for that cuz im actually using their products. If you keep hatin them and you are using their products then you suck.i would do the same if i owned the company. Imagine this, loss of money on games, mopre crappy@$$ games So dont whine that the games are crappy. There are just too many isos and csos out there and its too damn tempting and addicting.

So in order to fix this, Dark Alex and Booster has to come up with a way to play ripped games without sharing it on the internet. Like it works only on the psp that ripped the game. The devs said that they dont support piracy after all.

# yo..Hillbilly, — Guest 2007-06-07 17:21

Remember that you are reading a psp site. so i assume that you own a psp and prob a ps3. You suck if you hate sony so much yet u use their products. There is nothing you can do. Do any damage to them and the psp will go down with them too. Just like cso and iso, and cf affected the buisness completely.

# QUIT.... — Guest 2007-06-07 17:26

SPAMMIN!!!!! B17CH!!!!

# What the f**k — Guest 2007-06-07 19:44

Why are you americans saying that Holland sucks?

Holland is a great country!

I´m danish, and i think the U.S. suck balls!

The most corrupted nation in the world.. Wow!

# i think it was a mistype — Guest 2007-06-07 21:21

downgrade (downdate) proof is what i think he meant

wonder what they've done to stop the downgrading

my guess is they've moved IDstorage onto an unflashable and un-editable chip.

could be something totally different but that is why its called a guess.

# hmmm — Guest 2007-06-07 21:27

and what about people with no internet or no wireless router.

that logic is flawed

# Dutch people smell like weed and wee — Guest 2007-06-07 21:48

OMG, Cheerleader Club, haha. That was a good one.

God damn dutch pottheads

# dutchman speaking — Guest 2007-06-07 22:10

its sony's own faunt.. i dont want to wait 3 months on a game that i can download and play right now.

# another dutchman speaking — Guest 2007-06-07 23:26

That would be something special... "unflashable ones"...

Just give the hackers a week or so and these ones will be flashable too.

Ok, now i'll have to go to my wind mill and eat cheese while i brush my wooden shoes...

Damn.... where's my weed?

# Too many retards... — Guest 2007-06-07 23:53

Are you all flaming retards? I say ***** sony too just because we want to use custom firmware doesnt mean we condone piracy there are tons of other reasons for using custom firmware then just piracy ya fawkin newbs like high res vid, another level of briteness, customization, and many more. So before all of you morons open your big mouths think first.

# ***** you — Guest 2007-06-08 01:07

Jizzmaster Zero go eat a burger or something! fat *****

# huh!? — Guest 2007-06-08 01:38

im dutch but i didnt heard anything about a recall o_O i will go to some stores today and ask about details , and stop flaming guys!

# wtf... — Guest 2007-06-08 01:44

>The distributor likewise said that the custom firmwares being produced by the homebrew community is causing poor game sales in the region.

Actually it's thanks to custom firmwares, that we can play new games (okay, pirated or not), otherwise we would still be restricted to only "1.5 stuff", so I really can't see how lack of custom firmwares would have resulted in more game sales, as most of them require >1.5...

# PSP Shortage — Guest 2007-06-08 01:52

Indeed, i live in Montreal, and curiously enought, all the Futureshop of the area hav e been out of PSP for about a Week!

I'm pretty sure they didn"t sold all they unit, since they used to have many of them...

As soon that they where back in stock, sure enought, the box where marked with the letter that corespond to firmware 3.10!

# today's rant — Guest 2007-06-08 01:53

"The distributor likewise said that the custom firmwares being produced by the homebrew community is causing poor game sales in the region."

Yeah, right; blame all your company's problems on piracy and assume that all of your products are absolutely perfect, and that everyone wants to buy them. This is the RIAA/MPAA all over again. Also consider that computers can do whatever you tell them to without the manufacturer's consent, and yet PC games continue to have good sales.

What you do now if you're in the Netherlands is find a flashable PSP with 1.5 or OE firmware on eBay (that's what I did in the U.S.); that way, Sony doesn't make any money off of the sale. It's well worth the extra money you'll probably buy it for.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-08 02:20

Here's to stupidity, the only virus that infects 9 out of every 4 people.

# Yeah Sure.. — Guest 2007-06-08 02:39

So why do you even care... Us dutch people are the one's who are *****ed with unflashable units. Why do you even care?? .. and second of all it's not like we made the disiscion to recall al original units and third of all this make's your psp an mine 5 times more valuable...

# unavalible — Guest 2007-06-08 02:40

I live in holland and the shops doesn`t sell psp`s anymore, they are all gone and send back to sony.

***** you holland is alright, holland has done great things for it size so shut up HEINEKEM

# ... — Guest 2007-06-08 02:45

Here's to originality, the thing that you miss /\ /\

# wte — Guest 2007-06-08 02:47

ow what a fuctard u are....orange is a colour not an symbol so go back to ur retarded educationsystem

that could not even explain to you what a colour or a symbol is ....and the symbol of our national football club you talking about is a lion...

# sadaS — Guest 2007-06-08 02:48

Hell yeah..!! I'm danish too and whe don't even have this retarded president who doesn't only look like a monkey but acts like one too.. Holland is not Windmills, tulips and cheese.. Its Drugs, Hookers and Fun!

# HELL YEAH — Guest 2007-06-08 02:51

That´s like the best comment here! This is sooo truee!!! Restrictions on something expensive are evil so that´s why 1.5 was a succes but the custom firmware take´s that away but gives you the possibility to play newer UMD´s ... You confirm the obvious but there are a lot of flamers not seeing the truth here

# To Idiocraty — dark_eternal_x 2007-06-08 03:10

My impression of Sony using Tact:

As a company, we did what we thought would be in the interest of the consumer. By recalling the PSP systems, we can help to aleviate any problems due to piracy, and any defects in workmanship to ensure, that our consumers get the best possible products that Sony has to offer.

My translation:

We don't give a flying f**k about what people want. We want money. Not our fault we want to screw the consumer every chance we get worse than Bush railing America. Heh, voted for him twice, wtg idiots. But thanks to firmware updates, I get to bathe in money with hot naked chicks from all across the USA (except Wisconsin, dirty fat ugly cheese eating....) and then hop into my Rolls Royce and chowing down on Big Macs while I wipe my mouth with the american flag, and chug a case of colt 45 to get the taste of nasty snatch and cheap hookers out of my mouth. (Is this a bloated canker sore on my tongue?)

Homebrew? Isn't that the Kentucky moonshine I got last week to my visit to Paducah that made me go blind for a week and made me have a spastic colon?

My reaction to what Sony really means?

Just admit it. You released a version of PSP that had something on there that would have been fully able to bypass all firmware upgrades and would have made us happy. God forbid that. As long as we can get ahold of a computer, the PSP is as wide open for business as 9 out of 10 of my ex's who were on the patch.

Only diff, the PSP can't give you something nasty when you interface with it and doesn't b*tch you out for not giving it the right things to work properly. It'll just lock up and that's it.

# screw them — Guest 2007-06-08 03:34

the bad sales aren't just cuz there is piracy, the main thing is that most games cost 50 ****ING EUROS!

try lowering some of the software prices instead of lowering the hardware price.

# from Holland — Guest 2007-06-08 03:48

Some people in Holland import games because we have to wait a long time for the games to come out. And when they come out they're really expensive compared to buying and importing games from other countries like the US. Why do we have to wait so long? Because of localization and translation they say. Well, most people in the Netherlands play their games in English. NOT in Dutch as you might think. A lot of the translations are really bad. Burnout Revenge for the PS2, just an example, didn't even have an English language selection, only Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Danish. I always played the game in Swedish because I don't like the Dutch translation.

Maybe people are waiting for the first price drop before they buy games. If a game is 50 euro and it's 20 dollar in the US they often wait until it is 20-30 euro here (which is still more than 20 dollar) and then buy the game. But is this different in other countries? And this isn't different with other console games.

I still buy my games though. And I know a lot of people that buy PSP games, often more than they can play.

Are the sales rates poor because a lot of people are waiting for games to become 30 euro or less or is it because some people import games from the US. I don't really know, but I do think that sales rates aren't as poor as they want you to believe.

# Pimpstreamer in The Netherlands — Guest 2007-06-08 03:50

I live in the netherlands, I got my PSP first thing when it came out. I bought it mainly for homebrew. And the PSP is perfect for this. The thing I use the most on my psp is Pimpstreamer. (wich also comes from the Netherlands).

Too bad for *****y *****, now people who buy a new psp in his own country will have to miss out on the greatest thing that happened to the psp so far. it's a damn shame!

I hate to see this kind of approach of $ony, I can understand that sales from the psp aren't that big as the ones from ND$. but I think that's because there aren't so many top titles on the PSP in contradiction to the NDS.

P.S. The Netherlands is still a fantastic country to live in.

# True — Guest 2007-06-08 03:50

jep the us s.u.c.k.s a.s.s i've lived there for 5 years... *****ing fatboys!

go suck bush's ***** you godammed donkey rapers!

# ... — Guest 2007-06-08 03:58

both tekken and bleach games suck...play something good like Guilty Gear games ;)

# um, you don't live here... — Guest 2007-06-08 04:04

so don't something about some place you haven't been to. The U.S. is a great place to live, and I am sure Holland is too...but I haven't been there so I can't say from experience. Seriously though, don't act like we suck..because we're all humans, I was born here...and what?!!....if I was born there in Holland...I wouldn't suck?... Can't we all just get along and quit hating each other because of stupid lines that we've drawn on pieces of paper (maps) that somehow make us all different...WE ARE ALL THE SAME!

# addons — Guest 2007-06-08 04:46

I want more functionality for the PSP, that's why I have home brew. Open source free games (GPL) are just fun.

Why doesn't sony support add ons for the firmware??

That solves the whole problem.

1. More functionality because program mes made by anyone else than Sony is supported.

2. More profit. Certain illegal programme can't run. Not free games, because lack of license, and they are blocked by the new firmware

3. Less damage. Sony can now protect us against the bad 'homebrew' (kind a self protection)

# .. — Guest 2007-06-08 05:44

Our country's official name in english is: The netherlands.

Not holland or anything else you hear flying around. ;)

# .. — Guest 2007-06-08 05:48

Well sorry to say this, but we arent all the same.

We are defined by the culture we grow up in and quite frankly, the US has a different culture // cultures than the netherlands. We may both be humans, yes. But our ways of thinking may differ endlessly

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# @american patriot — Guest 2007-06-08 08:07

you american guy`s who are stupid like that are just "kankerig".

And for Holland sucks.

Orange is trans'ed into Oranje and that is de last name of our royal house. its not our simbol. and in holland there are not many cheerleaders if we want to have sex we go to amsterdam

# Holland — Guest 2007-06-08 08:52

excuse me? Holland is the only original name. the netherlands was with belgium included.. when we ruled the seas, too bad we had to keep limburg and brabant.. those are netherlanders. B.E.L.G. + Ben Eerst Limburger Geweest :)

And for those american patriot retards, you must have forgot who sailed your grandparents to your stolen country filled with inbreed..

# WTF — Guest 2007-06-08 08:54

Never heard of a recall , and i live in the netherlands

# so it was a hoax after all — Guest 2007-06-08 09:53

What have we learned from this?

1. Don't believe everything you hear.

2. A lot of Dutch people come to this site.

# psp site — Guest 2007-06-08 11:09

this is a psp site talk about the thign not about your contry and which one is better

# OH NO — Guest 2007-06-09 02:35

whatever you do dont send your psp back!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# blacks are the best ***** — Guest 2007-06-09 02:39

chikenheads you all are chickenheads! I dont trust in whitemans words you all got no balls *****es+ !!! keep it real holland

# this is the most disrespectful thread in a while — Guest 2007-06-19 06:32

you ppl just need to grow up...theres 70 diff cultures in america and also in holland..some good some bad in each culture...race bashing on a psp site should make you guys want to kill yourselves ...y not just have a collective mind and all say what u think without bashing other countries...holland does have to wait an exteremely long time for games to hit them and price is crazy...so ofcourse they import...if us americans fell into the same catagory we would do the same thing ......bottom line stop being so childish when half of you dont know what your talking about anyways when it comes to the other countries

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