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Sony Integrates YouTube API for PS3

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the even-more-guitar-hero-videos dept.

Sony has announced the inclusion of the YouTube API to allow game developers to offer video uploading as an integrated part of their games. The only game that seems to be taking advantage of this so far is Mainichi Issho, a free Japanese PSN game.

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  1. Awesome. by Slashdot+Suxxors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hopefully Microsoft will follow suit with the 360. Too often have I been playing a game of Call of Duty 4, Halo 3, or Gears and you get that "WTF" moment that you wished you could have shared. I realize capture cards and the necessary cables aren't that expensive anymore, but it really is a pain. EA's Skate. had an option for this to, IIRC. But it was on EA's website, not YouTube.

    1. Re:Awesome. by Slashdot+Suxxors · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Then I wish more games were like Halo 3. It automatically records all of your multiplayer sessions to a temporary library (Holds last ~20 sessions, I think.) and then you can flip over to Theater mode to pick and choose what you want to save. From there you can put them on your File Share and store them on your HD. Then you can recommend clips to your friends over Xbox Live and Bungie.net, etc.

      I'm not saying all games should have modes as extensive as this, but auto-saving all of your temporary films would be great.

  2. Part of the much broader Sony PS3 plans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This fits in with the much broader Sony user generated content plans:

    * User created levels for games Little Big Planet. Early versions of games ship with the game developer's own levels and then users create and upload their own levels that are made available to other PS3 owners with ratings and download counts to tell which are the best levels. Later on game developers come out with updated BluRay versions of their game with the disc filled with all the most popular levels.

    * Ingame screenshots and movies. Saved to your PS3's harddrive and then published either through Home or websites like youtube or the upcomming PS3 gamer personal webpages. For Home the movies and images captured will be able to be streamed right on the wall of each person's own personal space along with other media content they have on their harddrives