One of our longtime readers, Brian B., recently attempted to purchase the PSP camera,
Chotto Shot. However, when he attempted to purchase the product, he got a strange, foreboding message from the retailer. "Due to a safety issue and high defect rate, we are issuing a product recall to anyone who has purchased a PSP Chotto Shot Camera after July 1st, 2008. Even though these units have been tested, we have been getting reports that some of these units have been running extremely hot, and have emitted a burning smell from the unit. An already dangerous and unfortunate situation, this could lead to the even more serious event of a fire starting from the unit."
According to the retailer, "the manufacturer is already aware of the problem." Considering the camera is
not available in America, we cannot contact a SCEA representative to comment on this problem. However, a look at both import sites Play-Asia and NCSX show that the PSP camera is currently not in stock.
{ Aug 11th 2008 at 9:05PM } 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jacksons @ Aug 11th 2008 10:06PM
1/3 the photo quality of my 8 year old digital camera. I don't understand the attraction.
Anthony @ Aug 11th 2008 10:34PM
i did just get an email update from play-asia saying that the chotto chot was out of stock.
interesting...
Andrew @ Aug 11th 2008 10:45PM
that sucks
Yan @ Aug 11th 2008 11:30PM
wow. luckily i got mines before july 1st so mines should be okay.
Lucky_Bastard @ Aug 12th 2008 12:07AM
this is true. mine feels hot after long use.. thank god i already sold it.
Yan @ Aug 12th 2008 12:37AM
when did you get yours? after july 1st?
Manuel @ Aug 12th 2008 1:16PM
dang. And I was thinking of getting one. :(
elephant_stone @ Aug 12th 2008 5:41AM
Mine seems fine - although I hardly use it. I got it free from ThreeSpeech.com :)
ikebana @ Aug 12th 2008 7:59AM
This is really bad...it will totally disappoint the current users of the camera. This must be rectified ASAP.
http://www.ashopping.biz/
Yan @ Aug 14th 2008 2:12AM
so how does it disappoint me? i been using it to make videos and uploading to youtube with no problems.
@ lucky_bastard
i guess you have doubts about your camera even though you bought it a year ago. =/
Lucky_Bastard @ Aug 12th 2008 8:19AM
@yan
funny thing. mine was purchased april 2007.
1stladyofkrypton @ Aug 12th 2008 5:49PM
Okay, completely off topic but, what PSP is that? I've never seen that color before.
Soapy911 @ Aug 12th 2008 6:00PM
cool. a portable flamethrower
dust @ Aug 13th 2008 8:49AM
I cant help but wonder if this is Sony spreading a lie to keep us from importing it.
Lucky_Bastard @ Aug 14th 2008 3:56AM
@Yan
No doubts. it doesn't affect the performance of the cam, u just need to cool it down a little. mine just like 4 times it happened. i sold that cam and bought a GPS on my PsP. Very useful while travelling.
dentaku @ Aug 15th 2008 6:37AM
Well, you can burn insects by reflecting the sun in it's tiny lense, but anything else is just psp-bashing.