As the march to the North American launch of Xbox One enters its final days and hours, Microsoft continues to share new details surrounding some of the console’s key features. One such feature is the ability to save, edit and upload clips while playing to SkyDrive.
PS4 owners are able to share live gameplay via Twitch.tv and clips via Facebook. They cannot, however, share clips to YouTube, but Xbox One owners will be able to with a little work.
With SkyDrive, Xbox One owners will be able to upload gameplay clips to YouTube via SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage solution. Once the clip is on SkyDrive in 720p as an mp4 file, then it can be pushed anywhere you want, but it has to go through SkyDrive first. In Microsoft’s words and a direct dig at Sony, “You can save your edited game clips directly to the cloud and share the way you want to share without any restrictions or limitations.”
There’s two ways to save gameplay clips on Xbox One. The first is to set it to record the net five minutes of gameplay. Simple enough. The second is to say, “Xbox, record that” into Kinect and the previous 30 seconds will be recorded. This design allows you to record something cool that just happened as opposed to trying to guess what might happen around the next corner.
What Xbox One owners won’t be able to do is send a live feed of their gameplay to Twitch.tv. That functionality was originally expected to be available for launch but has been pushed into early 2014.
