i dont think its actually illegal to buy these things; it might be illegal to sell them, but you cant really stop it from happening.
Anyway, Auzdafluff, reports are that sony is losing upwards of $200 on each unit- which would make sense to me when you take into account all the stuff in there. A PDA with equivalent features would cost far more than the psp.
As for me..meh..I dont care, bought my psp in the US, so there be no way to track me!
Either way, if sony actually do this, then they are just total dicks- I mean do they really think people will then go and buy the european PSP after having been ripped off by sony? I wouldnt.. I mainly bought it for multimedia stuff, and there are many alternative devices.
Besides that, the cost of actually sending out all these people and obtaining all these records is probably greater than the amount it costs them to allow importing. Sony should be concentrating on getting their damned act together and shipping the psp here, not punishing those who werent going to wait.
edit: besides, if sony really wanted to fuck up importers, they could just alter the firmware of the european psp's so that they wouldnt play U.S./Japanese games, rather than obtaining warrants to search peoples home's.. besides, I'm fairly sure the government wont allow a company to get search warrants based on their own business problems; can you imagine the headlines- "sony tore up my house looking for my sons psp which he legally bought".. that could do them no end of harm.
[ Edited by GR781 on 2005/6/24 10:21 ]