PS4 continually records the last 15 minutes of gameplay

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PlayStation 4 will continually record 15 minutes of gameplay data in the background for users to capture and publish online, a spokesperson for the company has confirmed to computerandvideogames.com.

Confusion surrounding the length of the recording process arose when 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.

This claim was misheard and led to some reports suggesting PS4 captures "seven" minutes of gameplay data, while other articles claimed the console records "several minutes". But on Monday a spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe told CVG PS4 will continually record 15 minutes of gameplay data, as initially reported.

Recorded PS4 data can be brought up using the DualShock 4's Share Button, allowing player to edit and crop footage and share it across the PlayStation Network via Ustream.

Microsoft has revealed that the Xbox One will automatically record five minutes of gameplay and allow users to share that data across Xbox Live and social networks.

Ken Lobb, creative director at Microsoft Game Studios, said over the weekend that the gameplay recording initiative is internally called "Project Upload".

"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," he said.

"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."

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Fuzzeh_XPosted:

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grunt987654 My god this **** brand loyalty thing has to end. I own a 360 and I was so excited for the Xbox One until all the details about it came out. I had a PS2 originally but I went to 360 because I wanted some of its exclusives. Now I am switching to either PC or PS4 not sure which yet. I know ******** when I see it, and the Xbox One is the poster child for ********.

And I don't see why people who like the PS4 because it is more game oriented and less multi-media centered are getting so much crap. It should be game centered. If I wanted to watch videos all the time and listen to music, I would already own a PC. Gaming consoles are for GAMES.
Yeah brand loyalty is extremely stupid the fact that so many fanboys of corporations exist is annoying. Why can't we just be fanboys of gaming like really.


People who call other people fanboys of consoles really should grow up.
On another note why do you have to start arguments for no reason, really it's irritating no one bothered you.

Fuzzeh_XPosted:

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grunt987654 My god this **** brand loyalty thing has to end. I own a 360 and I was so excited for the Xbox One until all the details about it came out. I had a PS2 originally but I went to 360 because I wanted some of its exclusives. Now I am switching to either PC or PS4 not sure which yet. I know ******** when I see it, and the Xbox One is the poster child for ********.

And I don't see why people who like the PS4 because it is more game oriented and less multi-media centered are getting so much crap. It should be game centered. If I wanted to watch videos all the time and listen to music, I would already own a PC. Gaming consoles are for GAMES.
Yeah brand loyalty is extremely stupid the fact that so many fanboys of corporations exist is annoying. Why can't we just be fanboys of gaming like really.


People who call other people fanboys of consoles really should grow up.
Funny because you've said it plenty of times just go away please. Oh and btw way to not even have the intelligence to read my whole statement I said corporations.

RuinsPosted:

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grunt987654 My god this **** brand loyalty thing has to end. I own a 360 and I was so excited for the Xbox One until all the details about it came out. I had a PS2 originally but I went to 360 because I wanted some of its exclusives. Now I am switching to either PC or PS4 not sure which yet. I know ******** when I see it, and the Xbox One is the poster child for ********.

And I don't see why people who like the PS4 because it is more game oriented and less multi-media centered are getting so much crap. It should be game centered. If I wanted to watch videos all the time and listen to music, I would already own a PC. Gaming consoles are for GAMES.
Yeah brand loyalty is extremely stupid the fact that so many fanboys of corporations exist is annoying. Why can't we just be fanboys of gaming like really.


People who call other people fanboys of consoles really should grow up.

Fuzzeh_XPosted:

grunt987654 My god this **** brand loyalty thing has to end. I own a 360 and I was so excited for the Xbox One until all the details about it came out. I had a PS2 originally but I went to 360 because I wanted some of its exclusives. Now I am switching to either PC or PS4 not sure which yet. I know ******** when I see it, and the Xbox One is the poster child for ********.

And I don't see why people who like the PS4 because it is more game oriented and less multi-media centered are getting so much crap. It should be game centered. If I wanted to watch videos all the time and listen to music, I would already own a PC. Gaming consoles are for GAMES.
Yeah brand loyalty is extremely stupid the fact that so many fanboys of corporations exist is annoying. Why can't we just be fanboys of gaming like really.

MaggardoPosted:

This is stupid, insanely pointless, why would they install this feature!?!?!?!

SynybunPosted:

This sounds like a pretty cool feature. It will be nice to be able to save those special moments to watch later.

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really? it is only 10n more minutes than xbox and plus if you want to record your gameplay and not be limited on the amount of minutes you can record then buy a cap card...


i dont want a captur card but its still nice to see that it records it and im gonna switch xbox just f*cked up with the community a lot of my friends gonna switch too so its a win-win situation for me


I dont understand how xbox messed up? please tell. After the reveal of the one everyone is talking crap about ms, why? also everyone says the PS exclusives will be better, How they showed like 2 exclusives at E3 that looked good Idk, its just that everyone is on the xbox sucks bandwagon now /rant over btw I own both ps3 and xbox, xbox online is way better and the features are better


how has xbox messed up? Xbox have some of the best originals in gaming and the xbox one already has 3 or 4 exclusive games one of them being dead rising 3 which brought the company who made DR2 a lot of money..


They messed up on a lot of things, for one the recording time, price, DRM even though it was dropped.


thats all you can come up with? the recording time is only 5 mins but you can also say xbox record that and it will start 30 seconds before you said that and record from then,the price its only 100 dollars more because of the updated kinect which has ALOT of commands to tell it, the drm was a great Idea being able to share games with family and friends and being able to install a game and no longer need the disc! also YOU own the disc so ITS YOURS idk how people see that as being bad.
Lol thats all he needs to come up with. I swear people that defend the Xbox One are getting dumber and dumber everyday, tbh that's one of the reasons i'm holding off on getting one no one has any good reasons or arguments. Quite sad tbh.

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really? it is only 10n more minutes than xbox and plus if you want to record your gameplay and not be limited on the amount of minutes you can record then buy a cap card...


i dont want a captur card but its still nice to see that it records it and im gonna switch xbox just f*cked up with the community a lot of my friends gonna switch too so its a win-win situation for me


I dont understand how xbox messed up? please tell. After the reveal of the one everyone is talking crap about ms, why? also everyone says the PS exclusives will be better, How they showed like 2 exclusives at E3 that looked good Idk, its just that everyone is on the xbox sucks bandwagon now /rant over btw I own both ps3 and xbox, xbox online is way better and the features are better


how has xbox messed up? Xbox have some of the best originals in gaming and the xbox one already has 3 or 4 exclusive games one of them being dead rising 3 which brought the company who made DR2 a lot of money..


They messed up on a lot of things, for one the recording time, price, DRM even though it was dropped.


thats all you can come up with? the recording time is only 5 mins but you can also say xbox record that and it will start 30 seconds before you said that and record from then,the price its only 100 dollars more because of the updated kinect which has ALOT of commands to tell it, the drm was a great Idea being able to share games with family and friends and being able to install a game and no longer need the disc! also YOU own the disc so ITS YOURS idk how people see that as being bad.


Anymore you cant tell who copied who so stop fighting.

grunt987654Posted:

My god this **** brand loyalty thing has to end. I own a 360 and I was so excited for the Xbox One until all the details about it came out. I had a PS2 originally but I went to 360 because I wanted some of its exclusives. Now I am switching to either PC or PS4 not sure which yet. I know bullshit when I see it, and the Xbox One is the poster child for bullshit.

And I don't see why people who like the PS4 because it is more game oriented and less multi-media centered are getting so much crap. It should be game centered. If I wanted to watch videos all the time and listen to music, I would already own a PC. Gaming consoles are for GAMES.

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really? it is only 10n more minutes than xbox and plus if you want to record your gameplay and not be limited on the amount of minutes you can record then buy a cap card...


i dont want a captur card but its still nice to see that it records it and im gonna switch xbox just f*cked up with the community a lot of my friends gonna switch too so its a win-win situation for me


I dont understand how xbox messed up? please tell. After the reveal of the one everyone is talking crap about ms, why? also everyone says the PS exclusives will be better, How they showed like 2 exclusives at E3 that looked good Idk, its just that everyone is on the xbox sucks bandwagon now /rant over btw I own both ps3 and xbox, xbox online is way better and the features are better


how has xbox messed up? Xbox have some of the best originals in gaming and the xbox one already has 3 or 4 exclusive games one of them being dead rising 3 which brought the company who made DR2 a lot of money..


They messed up on a lot of things, for one the recording time, price, DRM even though it was dropped.


thats all you can come up with? the recording time is only 5 mins but you can also say xbox record that and it will start 30 seconds before you said that and record from then,the price its only 100 dollars more because of the updated kinect which has ALOT of commands to tell it, the drm was a great Idea being able to share games with family and friends and being able to install a game and no longer need the disc! also YOU own the disc so ITS YOURS idk how people see that as being bad.


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