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."

Posted: Jul 22, 2013 11:23 am
Related Forum: PlayStation Forum

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/420108/ps4-continually-records-the-last-15-minutes-of-gameplay-sony-clarifies/

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CokesPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

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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.

RuinsPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

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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..

GossipPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

Beat the Xbox again.

-LivePosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

A lot of fanboyism in here, chill guys :D

Yeah this is pretty cool, it's great because a lot of multiplayer games usually last 10-12 minutes and this will be great for that. I'm just curious how there editing is going to work because they haven't went in depth with it yet as MS has so we will see.

ReleasesPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

Brock_Lesnar
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Brock_Lesnar and another reason for switching to ps

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

bigchukkaPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

Lucky for you Sony guys. The Xbox one only records 5 minutes "from what i heard". I may just end up buying a capture card of some kind. I defiantly jealous of the ps4 having that much recording time.

ACEMPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

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ACEM I like how the Xbox One fans say "Oh, big deal. Who cares?!" When if the PS4 had only 5 minutes and the Xbox One had 15 minutes, they'd be bragging like crazy.

lol @ this who cares it automatically records the last 5 mins of a game and if you do something cool all you have to do is say xbox record that and it starts to record from 30 seconds before you said that, also you can skype in a MP game search the web in a game, you could also watch tv while in a game single player I suggest

But PS fanboys all they will do is say wow its suppose to be about the games not the Video and music lmao

Point proven, lmao. And If I wanted to browse the web while playing games I could just use my phone, or my laptop lmao. Also who would want to watch TV while playing a game?

ReleasesPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

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Wagering Wow, 10 minutes more than Xbox. I better brag about it because I'm 12 and don't know any better.

You're too young to be here, GTFO.

Either you are an idiot or a troll?

mxzdPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

capture card. nuff said.

ReleasesPosted: Mon. Jul 22, 2013

ACEM I like how the Xbox One fans say "Oh, big deal. Who cares?!" When if the PS4 had only 5 minutes and the Xbox One had 15 minutes, they'd be bragging like crazy.

lol @ this who cares it automatically records the last 5 mins of a game and if you do something cool all you have to do is say xbox record that and it starts to record from 30 seconds before you said that, also you can skype in a MP game search the web in a game, you could also watch tv while in a game single player I suggest

But PS fanboys all they will do is say wow its suppose to be about the games not the Video and music lmao

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