Microsoft Is Removing Xbox One Snap Mode And Here's Why

The things gained by removing snap in my opinion was not worth it, I loved the ability to snap youtube or other apps aside my games and now they just decide to throw it out to "improve" minor UI? Wow.. Well I suppose I can always set up my computer monitor beside my TV to create the same experience.

I'm primarily a PS4 gamer and when i bought a One S the most jarring thing was going from the simplicity of the PS4 UI to the cluttered mess and unintuitiveness of the One S UI. Whatever they can do to make it better is greatly appreciated.

I actually like the new UI. Its definetly faster and it feels less cluttered on the home screen. Snap was never my favorite feature so I really won't miss it.

I really need to come up with a cut to the chase fluid and easy to access feature set user interface compared to other videogame consoles it's pathetic

Because it's an Xbox 180, that's why. Just started using and liking this feature... aholes!

in other words no one uses it its a crap feature anyways lets get rid of it just like with kinect

i hate the whole UI of the xbox one its fiddly and rather complicated at times when i 1st got my xbox i didnt even know how to boot the game because i couldnt find it

all the crap that was bundled in to the xbox i hope they have learned their lesson we dont want it to perform other tasks just play the darn games well thats is all

I haven't played my xbox one that much, and at first I didn't have an issue with all the different features but I think they made it more complicated and sometimes buggy as time went on. Don't care about the removal at all.

Ybarra explained that Snap was removed in an effort to "improve multitasking, reduce memory use, improve overall speed, and free up resources going forward for bigger things."

We're going to improve multitasking by... removing multitasking.

good riddance, god forbid you hit help by mistake lol

It was pretty bad to be honest.

Kinda stinks but I wasn't a big fan of the feature. Wish they would have allowed the option to resize the snapped app. I thought it was going to be great to play a game while having something play on the side (movie, tv show, sports game, etc) but the screen size or the snapped video was just too small that it wasn't even worth it.

Awe that's sorta sucks. I some times snap tv when I half wanting to watch a sports game yet also wanna play a game.

snap was useless and slow. It was more of a hindrance.

dunno why they had to over complicate it in the first place. the 360 'blades' were adequate enough

So they add this crap and then they remove it again? Could Sony do the same now with its sharing feature to free up some resources for actually useful things? It's about time.

Being the UI is like Windows 10, I sometimes find the UI confusing and hate it.

Man I forgot about snap since the last update. I honestly thought it was already gone.

I love my ps4 but I agree with this. The ps4 pro simply isn't much of an upgrade. I'm really looking forward to Scorpio instead because it's a very big difference.

The Xbox One was the best-selling console during the quiet season in the US, but got totally destroyed in global sales and holiday sales, which is the only metrics that matter.

There PS4 is closing in 3x larger userbase...

Heavily promoted, but really, when gamers want to play a game, they are so absorbed that all this extra shit becomes useless. Take it all away and give us better performance.

Cannot wait for scorpio and futures games that take advantage of it.

Hello,

Maybe you can help me out here?. Im not sure if there is another way, but to capture a video, not by saying "hey Cortana record that " and capture last 30 secs, but for example in Overwatch the highlights section contains your play of the games for the session, and sometimes I used to go there, open media recorder in snap mode, play the highlighted "play of the game" and start recording.

If Snap mode is going away, how can I record those videos?

Thx

G

Snap was one of those feature that sounded cool when it was first announced but it never really worked out in any meaningful way. I'm ok with it going away.

Fanboys at launch, "Snap is so awesome, i use it all the time!!!"

Fanboys after they ditch it, "yeah, I never used it except for maybe a few times, no big loss."

Sounds just like when they announce a game and then cancel it.

you wacky bots...

Having this dash in preview, I must say its so much better! Now if they can fix that slow ass loading on the dash then it'll be great.