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Xbox One’s upcoming screenshot feature sounds really neat as the images you share won’t be compressed or look cheap.

Some preview program members have access to the Xbox One screenshot feature already. A whole thread on NeoGAF has now been created with lots of users sharing their images already. The screenshots look great and are not compressed to a low quality.

The top user noted the images he shared on his Xbox One console were not compressed on Twitter. He also noted the images were saved as a PNG file. He uploaded some pretty screenshots of Forza Horizon 2. Another user down the thread took some lovely looking images from Assassin’s Creed Unity.

The fact that images are not compressed when you share them is a significant one. This is probably one of the reasons why Microsoft didn’t have a screenshot feature earlier in the Xbox One’s lifespan. They wanted to wait until the feature was ready.

As some of you may know already, the PS4 has had the screenshot feature since the system’s launch back in November 2013. However, images that are shared to Facebook and/or Twitter are heavily compressed. They don’t look as pretty as they not shared using the native resolution. Although some PS4 games have their own “photo mode” in them so it evens out a little bit.

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Really looking forward to this feature. I'll try to make the perfect background.



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But a compressed PS4 image is as sharp as an uncompressed Xbox One image, right?

Just kidding. Looking forward to trying it out.



So are these native resolution as in rendered in higher resolution the moment of the screenshot or simply upscaled? Seems weird to not compress them but instead even upscale them.



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PNG is lossless compression, or does it store it as raw? (6MB per image)
It's mostly Facebook that causes quality loss by heavily compressing it. The jpg you can copy from the ps4 are more than double the data size than the ones on Facebook.



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Another Xbox exclusive, thank the power of teh cloudz.



It's too bad the screenshot method is behind another screen. Seems a little clunky to me, for non Kinect Xboners at least. Just like the record button.







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That Pnuema Breath of Life game is going to be nice for this. Looking crisp too!



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That's a really great feature! That car looks uber realistically beautiful. :0



Its great that they dont cause that looks fap worthy



                  

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