Xbox One captures the last 5 minutes of gameplay

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Xbox One will automatically record the last five minutes of a user's gameplay, according to Ken Lobb, creative director at Microsoft Game Studios.

Speaking to GameSpot in a Killer Instinct video interview conducted at San Diego Comic-Con, he provided new details about the console's game DVR functionality.

"It's called 'Project Upload', he said. "So the idea is that you're always recording. We have a ring buffer game DVR basically, so the last five minutes of any game you're playing is always being stored locally on your hard drive.

"Let me give you two scenarios. Scenario one: I'm playing online and I just did the best thing ever. I can't pause [because] I'm playing online. You can say 'Xbox, record that', it'll grab the last 30 seconds and save it for you to play with later.

"So now let's say you're not playing online and you do the best combo or you have the best fight ever," Lobb continued. "You can finish after that fight, that thing you just did is within the last five minutes, you can go into that last five minutes and scrub it for the best stuff - I want that four seconds and this ten seconds and this 30 seconds and then I want that ultra combo.

"We have things, basically a wrapper, so you can put up something that comes before and after, the [example] video we showed said 'best of Evo', and you can also if you'd like voiceover and even put in some stuff from the Kinect camera, do picture-in-picture."

PS4 owners will also be able to share gameplay and screenshots using the DualShock 4's 'Share' button. According to the Guardian, Neil Brown, head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's R&D group, said earlier this month that PS4 uses a dedicated hardware encoder to continually record the last "several minutes" of gameplay footage, without taking up any processor resources.

Posted: Jul 22, 2013 9:01 am
Related Forum: Xbox Forum

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/420097/xbox-one-captures-the-last-5-minutes-of-gameplay/

Comments

GibbityTreePosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

Ok? Wow 5 measly minutes...

AlbericiPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

So it only record 5 min? All and all or what?

Scared_of_WaterPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

Gossip Too confused. Do you record the last 30 seconds or 5 minutes?

it records the last 5 minutes of your game but you can tell it to record the last 30 secs any time you want.

BacudaPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

Beaar I think this is pretty cool and it would be good for just getting clips of a game and putting them together. In my opinion I think it's a really good idea.

It's going to be awful if you can't disable it, because that Hard Drive will fill FAST.

BeaarPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

I think this is pretty cool and it would be good for just getting clips of a game and putting them together. In my opinion I think it's a really good idea.

RuinsPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

Titanium I think Microsoft should be adding in better things than a DVR that records for 5 minutes.

yes i agree, the have millions of dollars and that is all they can do -__-

ericamPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

Honestly I think this is a horrible idea. Because of this Every 12 year old is going to be uploading his bullshit CoD videos. I'm just saying Youtube doesn't need any more child gamers on it. Just look at MineCraft there is no longer a reason to record because everything has been done and redone by children.

XxSerious_SamxXPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

Titanium I think Microsoft should be adding in better things than a DVR that records for 5 minutes.

I disagree I think its good. Think of it as you are not playing cod online so you dont have theatre mode and you do something amazing you can look back at it. Not everyone has a hd-pvr and If you buy one you may aswell pay a little bit more and buy a new console. And if you do have a pvr you dont have it recording 24/7. I think 5 minutes is quite short tbh but its better than nothing and could be increased later buy a update or even better let the user set a dedicated partition of the hard drive for like the last 30 mins or something

TitaniumPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

I think Microsoft should be adding in better things than a DVR that records for 5 minutes.

WakePosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

Gossip Too confused. Do you record the last 30 seconds or 5 minutes?

If you're in the middle of an online session you can tell your xbox to save the last 30 seconds and then continue on with your game or you could exit the session completely and pick out clips from the last 5 minutes to save or just save the whole 5 minutes.

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