Media Go? More like Media Stop for Mac users.
Some of you might have nabbed a PSPgo today. Some of you might be Mac owners. There's a potential problem for people in both camps, as Sony's media and game management software, Media Go, is PC-only.
Back in the day of UMDs, the need for content management software was less important, as you could grab a game off the shelf and pop it in. Now that you have to download games for your PSPgo, the Mac owners of the world are at a slight disadvantage. All is not lost, though. Sony's Jeff Rubenstein was nice enough to pass along some alternative methods of getting games onto your PSPgo.
"The easiest and most direct way would be to download directly through the in-game store via wi-fi," Rubenstein told Destructoid. "PS3-owners can also download PSP content, and then transfer games, pics, movies, etc onto their PSP via the included USB."
And while this may not help with the games, there's still Mac connectivitiy for everything else: "Note that Mac owners can still directly connect their PSPgo to their Mac via USB to transfer videos, pics, and music."
Commence with the Mac jokes.
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2:30 PM on 10.01.2009
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Oh wait, I have a Macbook Pro. Whoops. At least they can still see their PSPs and move stuff...I have a WinMo smartphone and my Mac refuses to even recognize its existence when I plug it in. Lame.
Jesus, I'm a terrible person.
A windows license runs over $100 plus I have to give up at least 9 GB (or more since I'm managing content) on a partition that is prone to viruses and spyware. No thanks. Care to offer a better solution? Mine is to just get a PSP-3000
Still, I'm sure there'll be a third party app out within the next few months; the Mac community seems to be pretty good at stuff like that.
http://www.virtualbox.org/
This situation does illustrate Sony's awkward dependence on Microsoft. I'm guessing Google's Chrome OS can't come soon enough for them, esp. with their computers continuing to fall behind companies like Acer and Apple.
As it has a shed load of RAM and a decent graphics card.
I'm very pleased with the set-up.
@Ganjookie - you fail for not getting the mac system naming scheme, which is freaking obvious.
KIDDING!
--sent from my iPhone.
How is it Apple's fault that Sansa can't write a simple Mac desktop client that syncs their players with iTunes' XML file? Even RIM's archaic BlackBerry has a Mac app. >.>
Just like PS3 owners.
Zing.
This whole all digital route just seems to be a worse idea by the day.
Sorry, someone had to say it. :P
I'm glad I have a PSP-2000, because I'm still planning on getting games on UMD.
"provided you have a copy of Windows and a valid license key. Problem solved."
Problem not solved at all. You need to buy a copy of Windows in order to work with your $250 fucking handheld? No. No no no, that shouldn't work at all. And it's not even a "well, no one uses Macs" thing anymore, it's just their refusal to use a simple solution that can work across platforms. The same thing is happening with the Zune, and frankly, it's absolutely annoying as shit.
"as if we needed another reason not to buy a mac."
A $250 handheld not working with a $1200 computer is not a reason to not by a Mac. It's the other way around, if anything. Computers are (technically) necessary to most people's every day lives. Handhelds are not.
The problem with all of these virtualization solutions is that they require you to buy a copy of Windows. I should not have to buy a copy of Windows or cut off about 9GB of my HDD in order to work with my goddamn PSP.
I'm not even going to touch the OS X hate in this thread, because I bring up the same arguments every time, and every time, it's only the people who already own/like/tolerate Macs to bother to listen. Fuck whatever, I'm going to watch Spongebob or something.
i have no intention of buying either to be honest.
in fact i don't have a mac for the same reason i don't have a psp go. they may look nice, and can perform as well as the alternative, but i have to pay more money and i get less compatibility.
While this doesn't help it become any cheaper and take up less space, as far as viruses go, it's an non-issue. Just think about how much web browsing you would do in Windows on a machine that also has OS X installed. I only do a tiny bit on trusted sites. The spyware and virus scans I do seem pretty pointless so far.
so what part do you disagree with? for the same money as an affordable mac i can get a better spec PC, and i game on my PC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ
or am i off the mark? I had a vioa and i was a god laptop, only it came wih windows and no windows CD...
So is Sony siding with them? i would agree, are there any others with the same experience or info?
You'd have to own a Mac before realizing they are more than the sum of their specs. However, this community skews towards those who live and breathe for videogames. "They know not what they do."
until someone shows me that a mac doesn't cost more and do less, i will continue to troll with impunity.
wisdom
also, it would seem like the sad little mac users can't even pirate correctly without "an app for that"
@Kinjiro
You seem to be on a tangent, but you're correct in asserting Mac users have a higher expectation for software polish. For piracy, that means keygens and cracks that aren't thinly veiled malware.
saw this randomly after posting in another article
i wasn't on a tangent
macs cost more, do less, and have random extra programs to do things pc users just know how to do for free
but i wasn't on a tangent
people bitching about having to buy a xp key obviously can't skirt the rules just a little bit to make their $250 dollar toy work
meaning they use macs, can't use computers, and spend money on things they don't need anyway
have fun wasting more money