Mainichi Issho integrates in-game video capture with YouTube

by Andrew Yoon { May 15th 2008 at 7:45PM }

Sometimes a feature is cooler than a game itself. That's exactly what's happening with a new update to Mainichi Issho, a free downloadable title for the Japanese PSN. The casual edutainment title has a new feature which Sony is proud to tout as the first of its kind. The game will allow you to record in-game footage and upload it directly to YouTube. We haven't heard of any other game ever including this functionality, but it does have us intrigued.

It would be great to see this feature incorporated into other titles. For example, wouldn't it be great if the SingStar community videos could go on YouTube? (Although this is unlikely due to copyright concerns.) Or, imagine being able to share some of your awesome sniping skills in Resistance 2 online? It would be awesome if our best Gran Turismo laps could be showcased to the world. There are a lot of possibilities with such a feature, and we can only hope that more titles will take advantage in the future.

[Thanks, Phoenix8387!]

Tags: youtube

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

paul @ May 15th 2008 7:56PM

what happened to crackle? is sony giving up on introducing a video-sharing site of their own?

Dehshizknight @ May 15th 2008 9:25PM

Crackle.com Home integration is confirmed so that site won't be going away.

pavs @ May 15th 2008 8:05PM

is this Japan only?

Phoenix8387 @ May 16th 2008 7:24AM

YouTube integration is available in all regions, but it will be up to the developers if they want to do this or not. The dev teams just need to get their hands on the updated dev software.

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26389103
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2008/05/let-games-begin.html

Kurt @ May 15th 2008 8:22PM

I'm sure this has been mentioned before but...

English version of Mainichi Issho plz~!

TinyTim121 @ May 15th 2008 8:28PM

YES!!! KILLER APP!!

This would be awesome fully implemented with the PS button; press the PS button during in-game to bring up the menu (Turn off console, quit game ect.), new menu option says "start recording", then click to start recording and continue playing, then to stop just tap the PS button again and its saved to the hard drive ready for access under a new folder under video!

It would make perfect use of that video editing software Eye-Create that can be downloaded off the store.

God i'm really excited...please do not restrict this to just that one game sony!

adolson @ May 15th 2008 9:03PM

What a great idea! I hope Sony thought of that - maybe in EyeCreate 2, we will have an Upload to YouTube option?! That'd be sick!

kevin @ May 15th 2008 8:30PM

"Gran Turismo laps could be showcased to the world"

they did say in grand turismo they will have the top lap race time recorded and for everyone to watch to get your skills higher...

vandelay_art @ May 15th 2008 9:01PM

Wow, this is a pretty cool feature.. I can't wait until Criterion adds this to Burnout Paradise.

Also, sort of OT. How do you retrieve lost user/password on this site? I can't seem to find out how.

SOCOMRAIDER @ May 15th 2008 11:59PM

Would be helpful to help curb glitchers/cheaters in competition heavy games like CoD4 and especially SOCOM Confrontation.

nd1312 @ May 15th 2008 9:08PM

what about skate for example?
you can save and upload replays directly from ingame to the internet.

or am i missing something?

frank @ May 16th 2008 1:26AM

beat me to it, i was going to say the same damn thing...

emaxximus @ May 15th 2008 10:10PM

Just what YouTube needs... an even bigger flood of bullcrap videos.

adolson @ May 16th 2008 11:51AM

You know, nobody forces you to watch what you don't want to watch..

tonyt3rry @ May 16th 2008 6:51AM

this is something i have always wanted, I just dont want to fork out for a capture card

Phoenix8387 @ May 16th 2008 7:27AM

I have to admit, I'm REALLY excited about this. The gaming community has always been wanting a way to record their own game play videos, Sony is finally giving us that chance.
I would wager that if they allow us to upload videos to YouTube then at some point they'll allow us to save them to our HDD. It's only a matter of time.

markosborne @ May 16th 2008 11:12AM

i think this would be a great idea to add to the a future PS3 update , so it could be compatable witha bigger selection of games

Kabapu @ May 17th 2008 12:06AM

Implementation in Warhawk, nao plz!

cs4 @ May 19th 2008 11:28PM

yeah i have the mainichi issyo on my ps3 but somehow cant update from the ps3 japan store so that i can start recording videos. the clock on the screen has been spinning for several hours now. game was working fine. want to download the added feature from the store. anyone with the same issues.