Link: http://onehitpixel.com/2013/08/07/xbox-ones-game-recording-features-restricted-to-xbox-live-gold-members/48066

Xbox One’s Game Recording Features Restricted To Xbox Live Gold Members

By Phillip Costigan August 7, 2013

Game DVR, the Xbox One’s system for recording and uploading footage from users’ games will be restricted to Xbox Live Gold members.

This comes from an Xbox Live features page on Xbox.com, which lists features like SmartMatch, NFL on Xbox, Xbox One’s TV Guide feature and, crucially, its Game DVR feature as Xbox live Gold specific features.

We contacted Microsoft to get confirmation that Game DVR features would indeed be limited to Xbox Live Gold members. Microsoft responded, saying “I can confirm that Game DVR features will be available to Xbox Live Gold members only.”

Microsoft’s Game DVR allows Gold members to record up to 5 minutes of in-game footage for editing and upload to the Xbox live service. Players can also save the last 30 seconds of a game instantly during times when pausing the game may not be possible, such as during an online multiplayer match.

Sony’s Share feature for PlayStation 4 allows users to record and upload up to 15 minutes of footage and is not restricted to PlayStation Plus users.

Microsoft’s Xbox One will release this November at a price of £429/€499.

Thankfully Kinect watches and records everyone equally, regardless of Gold status.

The thread can really end with this lol

Ice cold.

OT, not surprised in the slightest.

isn't the DVR recording done on the "cloud" side unlike ps4 hardware based solution? this really isn't too surprising.

so pay 49euros a year to be able to record 30 second clips in 720p? The future has arrived.

for that to work the game would need to be either streaming 720 up from your system to the cloud at all times or the game would need to be rendered on the cloud 100% of the time, neither of these things are really possible with the current lvls of global broadband services.

Things behind Microsoft's paywall are cringe worthy. Basically it's almost a slap to consumers who pay $500 for a product that's restricted to gaming offline and TV features. $500 and they're still putting everything behind more paywalls. All desire I had to buy a Xbone one day is slipping away.

Is this a surprise !? What haven't they put behind a paywall on 360 !? Even the browser required a Gold account ...

I hope MS burn and crash for making online gaming behind a paywall a thing this gen .