Ah, there we go: you’ll be able to use a HDMI capture card to take footage from the PS4 rather than being locked to the system’s Share button. This means that you won’t need to worry about the lack of YouTube uploading with the select-replacing switch.
This, of course, has nothing to do with that Share button itself, instead meaning that PS4 footage will essentially be unencrypted so that you can easily use an external capture device for footage. It’ll only work for games, naturally, to prevent movie piracy.
I think we just announced that we’re going to allow video capture of games over HDMI! “Details will follow soon.”
— Brad Douglas (@kazamatsuri) September 19, 2013
We’ll obviously learn more soon – as Brad Douglas says in the tweet above – but this sounds really good, providing there isn’t any unannounced restrictions for video capturing.
Source: GAF
Update: Yoshida just confirmed that this won’t be available at the launch of the PS4, saying that users will be able to capture the gameplay through HDMI “in the future”.
We announced today that PS4 users will be able to capture their gameplay through HDMI output in the future. We'll update you when ready.
— Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) September 19, 2013
sanmartinez
This is great news for me, was hoping for this to happen since the lack the component output.
CarBoyCam
Day = made. Thanks Sony!
Kovacs
Looking forward to hearing more about this. I’m assuming they’ve taken the logical and (in my mind) trivial step of detecting whether or not game data is being shunted out the HDMI port and, if so, simply deactivating the HDCP. Just like how the Xbox One does it.
Bilbo_bobbins
good news for some I guess.
gazzagb
I bet a lot of Youtubers are happy, it would have been crazy for Sony to have blocked it just because they want people to use their system and way of doing things.
freezebug2
That is quite a breakthrough announcement to be fair, top news.
Editing your captures will make all the difference, it’ll be like being able to fast forward TV adverts!
Scythegpd
A negative rumour about the PS4 starts … aaannd it’s gone!
Kovacs
Shu jut confirmed on Twitter that does is not a launch capability. I’m assuming it will be patched in to the PS4’s firmware post-launch.
Kovacs
“Just” confirmed. “This” is not a launch feature. iPhone being a giant iDick today it seems.