Xbox One DVR Will Require Users to Have a Dedicated External HDD

Microsoft made a lot of Xbox One owners happy this week when it announced new DVR functionality coming to the game console, complete with the ability to record and play back live over-the-air television.

Shawn Ashmore, lead actor for Remedy Entertainment’s “Quantum Break“, surprised fans as he took the stage with Remedy’s Creative Director Sam Lake to discuss and showcase the game’s latest time-amplified gameplay features. These titles will receive support for several Xbox One features including Game DVR, Snap, screenshots and more.

The Xbox One OS, confirmed by The Verge, also includes a host OS, which is a heavily modified Hyper-V hypervisor and two partitions. Once the service is up, you would be able to play that recording on any Windows 10 device, perhaps utilising the power of Continuum and Windows 10’s massively marketed cross-platform capability. And now, at Gamescom in Germany this morning, they’ve followed up with a firm release window: backwards compatibility will arrive for all Xbox One users in November. Windows 10 users can even store recordings on a phone, tablet, or PC for offline playback. With the EA Access subscription, users of the console bundle will be allowed to get early access to Federation Internationale de Football Association 16 on September 17, 5 days ahead of it’s official launch.

Cortana, meanwhile, is one of the first features announced to be part of the Windows 10 roll out. The new console launches on october 20th and is available for Pre- Order. To do this, head to the special Games with Gold section from the Xbox 360 home page and start purchasing your Xbox One games from there.

The Xbox One will soon be backwards-compatible with a select number of Xbox 360 games, starting at some point this November.

The new title also features classic players including Baia, Best, Deco, Gattuso, Giggs, Litmanen, Nesta, and Zanetti.