iOS 15 and macOS Monterey Introduce Ability to Capture 15-Second Gameplay Recordings Using a Game Controller

[Stromos]

Windows key + alt + G

Last 30 seconds on screen saved to a video clip

 

[7149041]

Ok. Before I found it'd only be ~200 MB I thought that maybe it'd be continously writing to storage, which I thought was going to wear a hole through it pretty quickly (rewriting that same 200 MB for an hour means you've written to it... 240 times.

My PS4 records continuously and stores up to 15 minutes - and I doubt it's all stored in RAM (although it's not impossible).

 

[topdrawer]

now they just need a game with a great boss battle to capture.

 

[temhawk]

Would be nice to be able to increase the buffer to 5 to 10 minutes or longer like in Windows 10. Have plenty of RAM to spare.

I also find it useful outside of games for retracing my steps. 👣

 

[twistedpixel8]

15 second boss battle? Boss must suck!

 

[diamond.g]

15 seconds isn’t a long time. That would be enough to show you getting a trophy (what the PS5 does) but beating a boss?

 

[Haiku_Oezu]

Cool stuff but 15 seconds? Hope they bump it up to at least 30

If the Nintendo Switch can manage that surely the latest Apple devices can

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

My PS4 records continuously and stores up to 15 minutes - and I doubt it's all stored in RAM (although it's not impossible).

Another option is to just store the data needed to re-render the past 15 minutes. But that'd require the game engine to be written to support that.

Also, re-rendering 15 minutes of gameplay footage would probably result in a ~15 minute pause when you decide to save.

So yeah, it's probably continuously writing to storage.

I think drive failure is probably going to be common on the PS4 in a few years, but... IDK. Having a hard drive fail on a game console seems way more acceptable to me than having it fail on a computer.

 

[cgaw23]

They should go for 30 seconds like Nintendo switch.