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You joke, but "Record that awesome thing that just happened" is a button video games have been needing for a long, long time.
by Cushman 14y ago
You joke, but "Record that awesome thing that just happened" is a button video games have been needing for a long, long time.
- drewblaisdell 14y agoThe future does not look like more buttons for increasingly specific functions.
- lowboy 14y agoAgreed. User-assignable buttons or touchpad gestures however...
- owenfi 14y agoYes, or just shouting "Save that!"
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- DigitalJack 14y agoSure it does. So many things happen in cycles. Contiuums are really the trace of a penduluum. We may still be swinging toward "programmable" buttons, but trust me, things will start swinging back at some point, though perhaps not for the reasons we might think.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoThe evidence suggests it does. How much of this belief do you base on your ideals and how much is based on reality? There used to be just game buttons (joystick + one button on Atari, for ex). There there were start and select. Then there was a console-specific power button (the "XBox" button and the "PS3" button on the Xbox controller and DS3 respectively). Now there's a share button. I dunno dude, it looks like the arrow of history is actually pointing the opposite direction from what you said in this comment.
- sliverstorm 14y agoPower buttons are somewhat special just from a hardware point of view; I don't think they are especially useful for this question. You can't navigate a menu to reach a power-on function. A competing power button service will never come out to replace the currently popular power button service. Every single Xbox or PS3 owner will use the power button(s) with regularity.
- sukuriant 14y agoHe's referring to the center button on PS3 and XBOX controllers that goes to the xbox dashboard or PS3 dashboard, or the home button on the Wiimote, etc... at least, that's what I assumed. That button does count.
- sliverstorm 14y agoBut that button also powers up the Xbox from a cold boot. The dashboard part is just adding some extra functionality to a button you already have.
- sukuriant 14y agoAre you sure it's not the other way around? Or, perhaps an intended dual functionality? Pressing the power button on the physical machine, as far as I remember, does not load the dashboard.
- ekianjo 14y agoThe Xbox button and PS buttons are not "specific" since they have several functions - they pop up a menu where you can access a long list of functions. Having a single button for sharing to your network is borderline stupid, since it will flood the social networks with useless crap nobody cares about.
- jamesaguilar 14y agotwitch.tv and Machinima claim that more than nobody cares about sharing of video game clips.
- jedmeyers 14y agoThe great thing about the 360 isn’t beating the games, it’s showing everyone online that I did.
- w-ll 14y agoYea, I actually loved this feature with OnLive when I was accepted into the beta. And they had the full VCR controls on it. I really liked this controller as it had the bulk of an xbox controller but with aligned sticks. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/OnLiveController.jpg http://cdn.arstechnica.net/OnLiveController.jpg
- shurcooL 14y agoOnLive has that button (combination).