A Plea For a Better Xbox Experience!

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   Sony PlayStation offers the ability to capture game footage of any length, and obviously people can do the same with a pc. So why are xbox users limited to 5 minute videos?

     I suggest a reworking of the Game DVR that automatically allocates a certain amount of HDD space strictly for captures. Then allow the player to decide how they want to fill that space, whether it be many short videos, or one large video that fills up the entire space.

    Couple this with an ability to use external usb condenser mics (like Blue Yeti or Snowball) and external, wireless, third party headsets to record voice during capture, would lead to Microsoft getting better YouTube publicity.

  Obviously, the current five minute clip system is not the worst thing. It’s exactly five minutes more recording time than what was available for the 360 and PS3. Considering the way PS4 does it, though, it just feels like loyal Xbox customers (like me) just aren’t being considered in this.

Check out my Xbox One game capture montage, below!

https://youtu.be/gFzBheYGPOk

      I’m a YouTube content creator, who loves Xbox and desperately wants to be able to share xbox gameplay, without resorting to paying an extra $150 to a company unaffiliated with Xbox (or having to perform extreamly tedious edits to string a bunch of five minute  videos together) just so i can show pride for my brand. Maybe there is hope in this cycle of consoles (or should we just go ahead and call it a “generation”), because Sony showed their hand deadly early. PS4 Pro had already been released, nearly a year before the Scorpio. If Microsoft has any sense they’ll use this as an opportunity to one up Sony (kind of like Sony did with PS3). They have the advantage now and with any luck they will fix their game dvr along with all the other upgrades.

   Help us YouTubers give Microsoft the alternative media push that has benefited Sony, for so long, in the flourishing YouTube gaming economy!

Gaming News: Microsoft’s Plans For Xbox, Fable Legends Canceled, No Man’s Sky

In early March Phil Spencer said that he envisioned a future where Xbox One could be upgradeable. This conjured ideas that one could replace standard components like GPUs with more advances ones, for unknown reasons the greater YouTube audience panicked about this. Personally, I would love such a change, but I’m a techie and regularly take things apart and do my own repair jobs. I can see, however, that this might not appeal to console regulars. A majority of people chose consoles because of simplicity, making console upgrades could conceivably complicate the traditional console atmosphere. Fear not, though, in an interview last week on Major Nelson’s podcast Phil “clarified” by saying he meant that the Xbox would be subject to upgrades similar to that of iPhones. This is somewhat misleading, because this could either mean that people will be able to go to the store and exchange their Xbox for a newer version (Xbox 1.2; Xbox S 1, etc.) , or just some kind of extension of the current software updates. No matter what it means, I can insure you that none of this means that Microsoft has giving up on Xbox (I really don’t know where that theory comes from) .

On the subject of Microsoft giving up; Lionhead Studios is stopping production on Fable Legends, and the studio itself is being closing down. This is not necessarily a bad thing. The Fable franchise has being going downhill for a very long time, and after a long sequence of screw-ups, it’s not surprising that they’re shutting down. Not many studios get as many second chances as they have. Don’t get me wrong I’m a huge Fable fan, but ever since Fable 2 I’ve been increasingly disappointed with the newer games, and as a Fable Legends Beta tester, I can personally tell you that Legends (though entertaining) quite simply was not a Fable game. Again these things actually prove that Microsoft cares about Xbox rather than “giving up” on Xbox.

Finally, good news! No Man’s Sky has an official release date. Devs have given official release dates for both PS4 and PC. Releasing first on Playstation on the summer solstice (June 21, 2016) and then on the PC three days later. As of yet, no word on a Mac or Xbox One release. No Man’s Sky, for those people who live in a cardboard box under the stairs in the corner of the basement, (if you get that reference, I applaud you) is an immense space exploration sandbox game, with an entire universe of world-sized worlds to explore and plenty of alien civilizations to observe, or fight with, or form alliances with.