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Screenshots coming soon to Xbox One, says Xbox head honcho
Xbox head Phil Spencer at Microsoft teased a new capability for Xbox One yesterday on Twitter, announcing “Nice to finally be doing this on my Xbox One dev kit.” The tweet came along with a screenshot of the operating system main screen.
Screenshots are a go-to mechanism for gamers to communicate interesting events or odd occurrences from within video games on social media. Not a day goes by that Reddit, Twitter, Imgur and other sources have numerous screenshots of PC games. They are essentially the selfies of the gaming world.
The Xbox team has apparently felt the heat of this social need, as Spencer says in another tweet that “It was one of the top requests on http://feedback.xbox.com.”
So far screenshot capability has remained exclusive to a competing console the PlayStation 4, and has not yet arrived on the Xbox One.
In a subsequent tweet, Spencer noted that while it works, screenshots are still a work in progress: “[The] team will do a proper intro to the feature when it’s ready for preview. UI and activation is all debug right now.”
Spencer has not given a launch date of the feature, but the tease suggests that it’s likely coming soon.
Image credit: Phil Spencer, via Twitter, https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/563817935014088704/photo/1
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