More Sony fun and Games

Two things happened to me this weekend. Firstly my wife bought me GTA for my PSP as a suprise present. I Was delighted as I had already been considering buying this game as I am getting stuck on Wipeout.

Now the game wouldn't load without insisting on updating the OS. Although this is something that I had been considering I rather resent being forced into this position as it is certainly something that is not clear from the packaging of this game that this is the case. I particularly object to the precendent that this sets.

To add to my frustration I tried to get my (now with updated OS) PSP to see my Wireless Access Point. Now I know that the Access Point works fine as we have been using my laptop with it for a while on the highest security setting that the AP can take.

So I try to connect to the AP from the PSP and keep getting errors and timeouts. I check the encryption available on the PSP and reduce the encryption on the AP accordingly. It still doesn't work. I then found a document on the Netgear site that said that It will only work with WEP encryption. This is unacceptable. I'm not interested in blame. It seems to me that the simple fact is that either Netgear or Sony can't get their act together. Given that the AP works fine with my laptop and given that the PSP I have didn't originally support some of the encrytpion that the AP does, I personally would lay this at the door of Sony.