On October 23rd, 2004 a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the Mid-Niigata
area of Japan killing many people and injuring thousands. On November
23rd Sony announced that it would auction off 500 PSPs and donate
all the proceeds to a charity helping those affected by the earthquake.
The lucky winners would receive their PSPs on Dec 5th, 2004 (one week
before the official release date on Dec 12th). The PSPs had a special
custom version of the 1.0 firmware that would display the auction
winner's name and a thank you message if you displayed the PSP Info
screen. It was shipped with a slip cover (seen above) and a special
card from Sony in it.
Here's the special card
from Sony:
And this is what you see
when you display the PSP Information:
Mine is 104 of 500. And, yes, that does say this PSP was won by Shigeru
Miyamoto (the inventor of the NES and Game Boy systems). I'm still
trying to find out the story of this... :)
Otherwise, it's just a
normal PSP system with all the accesories: