10 Unique Ways Sony Can Use The PS4 Share Button

E-Sports Broadcasts

It’s becoming a more serious business for PC, but the console sector is largely devoid of E-sports worthy titles (with notable exceptions). Part of this is due to consoles catering for a wider audience than the typically more “hardcore” PC crowd, but a definite element of this is the ease with which PC titles can be streamed to vast audiences. With built-in streaming, lucrative E-sports on PS4 could become a reality.

Video Clipboards

Screens have already been shown of how you can cut down and create your own video clips and montages using the share button. It’s also likely that you can save these clips and collections to the hard drive, ready for transfer to a PC or uploading to any sites and servers of your choice. It will make capturing console video much easier, also saving users the expensive purchase of a capture card.

Youtube Clips

Many contemporary games offer a theatre mode where you can make your own game clips but, without much of an online audience to share your exploits with, this video editing element rarely gets a serious look in. Though an official partnership has yet to be announced, Sony would be missing a serious trick if they don’t allow direct uploading of video clips to Youtube.

Syncing to a PC Client

Just in case the sharing options of the PS4 itself are limited, we’re hoping Sony will let you share PS4 media with a PC/Mac via a stand alone program/client. Even if we can’t share video clips on our favourite site via the PS4 interface itself, we can just pop it on a PC and share it that way if we need to. Not only that, but it’s also inevitable that you’ll have more free HDD space for video on a PC than your games console.