Why Series S can record only the last minute in 1080p?

Hi there! This is Ronnie, an independent advisor.

Nice to meet you and I hope you are having a great day!

I understand you need help on your game clip recording.

Just a heads up that recording game clips and using the internal storage device most especially at higher resolution will only record shorter clips. If you want to record longer clips, I suggest using an external storage like a flash drive or external hard drive.

For number 1, depends on the resolution that you want to record clips.

On Xbox One X you can record up to 30 seconds on 4K, but when posted, they will we downgraded to 1080p.

On Xbox One S you can record up to 2 minutes on 1080p.

On Xbox you can record up to 15 minutes on 780p.

On the games that can't be recorded, we're yet to find if there is such list.

If you use an external drive as the capture location, you can record footage at 1080p that's way longer than 1 minute, but it has 2 important limitations.

1. You have to start and stop the recording manually. You can't use the "record that" feature to capture longer clips of something that just happened; that would still be limited to 1 minute at 1080p.

2. Clips captured on external storage cannot be shared over Xbox Live.

I think it's a good solution if you're recording footage to transfer over to a PC, edit, then upload to YouTube, but it's no good if you want to capture longer clips to share with friends over Xbox Live.

I wonder why they reduced the recording times though. I'm sure when I got my Xbox Series X, there was a 2 minute option for 1080p, but now, as you said, it's only 1 minute.

I'm pretty sure it is meant to record 4k or at least 1440p. Xbox has bugs which they don't fix. Tgis is why I should've picked a Playstation

Ok well as far as I am aware the most the Series S can do in terms of recording is at 1080p/60fps.

@awesome it's only recording a rolling 5 minutes of gameplay at 720p 30fps not 1080p.