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.

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OrigamoPosted:

This is a cool feature.

Ted-Posted:

I'm actually pretty excited about this, at least Kinect can be used effectively for once

Fuzzeh_XPosted:

darkowl1991
Fuzzeh_X
RageCreation
bigchukka This is good and bad news. Less modders in new games but less recording time. I would love 10-30 minutes of recording time to get a full Battlefield game up on Youtube.


You can record as much as you can fit on your HDD. the 5 minutes is just a constant back up in case you were not recording when you got a cool kill/feed or anything.
No it doesn't it puts five minutes on your hard drive but you can record the last 30 seconds. Please read people.



So in other word as much has you want you just have to keep telling the xbox to record that.
Ok say you were in a game of CoD and you got a fancy trickzoom right? Then you could say Xbox Record and it woud record the last 30 seconds hopefully including that trickzoom. The second option is okay cool I gots me a fancy trickzoom ima go to the dvr later and scroll through the last 5 minutes of that game and grab it. But don't wait too long because after 6 minutes that trickzoom will be long gone.

Scared_of_WaterPosted:

Fuzzeh_X
RageCreation
bigchukka This is good and bad news. Less modders in new games but less recording time. I would love 10-30 minutes of recording time to get a full Battlefield game up on Youtube.


You can record as much as you can fit on your HDD. the 5 minutes is just a constant back up in case you were not recording when you got a cool kill/feed or anything.
No it doesn't it puts five minutes on your hard drive but you can record the last 30 seconds. Please read people.



So in other word as much has you want you just have to keep telling the xbox to record that.

Fuzzeh_XPosted:

RageCreation
bigchukka This is good and bad news. Less modders in new games but less recording time. I would love 10-30 minutes of recording time to get a full Battlefield game up on Youtube.


You can record as much as you can fit on your HDD. the 5 minutes is just a constant back up in case you were not recording when you got a cool kill/feed or anything.
No it doesn't it puts five minutes on your hard drive but you can record the last 30 seconds. Please read people.

RageCreationPosted:

bigchukka This is good and bad news. Less modders in new games but less recording time. I would love 10-30 minutes of recording time to get a full Battlefield game up on Youtube.


You can record as much as you can fit on your HDD. the 5 minutes is just a constant back up in case you were not recording when you got a cool kill/feed or anything.

RageCreationPosted:

Oasis
RageCreation I'm a bit confused. can we still record for as long as we want? Is the 5 minutes just a back up to go back to and record a special moment? Will it be possible to just start a recording and keep it going for 20 or so minutes, or if 5 minutes the limit to a video?


Of course you can record as much as you like within reason of the hdd required. The feature above is a fail safe in case you forget to set it up or just did something cool that you want to share. They've all ready clarified all this before, this is just more regurgitated news.


OK, thanks. That cleared up a lot.

Julianoz1224Posted:

RATF
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 -__-


You guys really don't get it, You can record as long as you want, but it will always store the last 5 minutes of your game so if you miss something you can go back and have it saved

CokesPosted:

brendan64shark I don't think you guys get it. It is just like the Elgato HD it records while you play but for the xbox it only records the last 5 min so if you play longer then it deletes everything before that. So it is never really taking up space in your hard drive.


I don't it will ever have Elgato quality.

brendan64sharkPosted:

I don't think you guys get it. It is just like the Elgato HD it records while you play but for the xbox it only records the last 5 min so if you play longer then it deletes everything before that. So it is never really taking up space in your hard drive.


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