Shaun White Skateboarding Recalled For PS3

Shaun White Skateboarding, was scheduled for release tomorrow on Wii, 360, and PS3. However, it seems Sony pulled a last minute audible by issuing a recall and asked retailers to send back the PS3 discs. Sony issued the following statement:

There was a manufacturing issue with a misprinted disc at Sony Computer Entertainment America and the wrong version of the Shaun White Skateboarding PlayStation 3 game was shipped to retailers. We’re working with Ubisoft to correct the issue. New PS3 copies of the game will be shipped to North American retailers by Thursday, Oct. 28 and it will be available by that weekend.

We can only speculate as to what the real reason for the recall was. If we had to guess though, it probably was related to jailbreaking in some manner. Perhaps a security fix was issued at some point to the game to prevent piracy, and some of the unfixed copies slipped through to retailers. We’ll probably never know for sure the real reason. Anyways, those looking to purchase the game will need to hold out until the end of the week to ensure a “working” version of the game.

Update: According to our member LiteFlower, who is a friend of the game studio that produced the game, this recall has nothing to do with jailbreaking. To quote:

This has NOTHING to do with Jailbreaking. Sony simply sent the wrong version to the manufacturing plant, instead of sending the one which was approved, they sent the candidate which wasn’t approved and contained code/data from a month prior.

If you get to play the recalled version, you’ll see tons of bugs and glitches that even may prevent you from finishing the game.