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[madmackem]

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14384132/microsoft-xbox-one-snap-mode-feature-removed

Microsoft is planning to kill off one of the more unique features of its Xbox One dashboard: snap mode. The software giant originally introduced snap mode as a method to watch TV or run an app side-by-side with a game. Microsoft is now on a mission to improve dashboard speed and multitasking, and snap mode is being removed to help improve the overall dashboard lag.

 

[Spukc]

good i never used it

 

[suddenlyissoon]

I'll be disappointed I can't play a game and snap TV at the same time anymore

 

[AlexBasch]

Never had idea how it worked. Just had something plastered on the right side of my screen and didn't know how to take it off, haha.

Sure sucks for people who used the feature though.

 

[yyr]

What? Why?!

"Xbox snap achievements" is something I yell at my Kinect all the time!

edit: actually read the article. If this helps speed up things, and they've already planned some sort of picture-in-picture-type replacement, then I suppose it's all well and good, I guess...

 

[singhr1]

We kinda knew this from MajorNelson over last few days but I guess it's reconfirmed?

What? Why?!

"Xbox snap achievements" is something I yell at my Kinect all the time!

Still there but as an overlay

EDIT: Or just look at this picture from Xbox Wire:

 

[Moofers]

What does this mean for custom soundtracks running on either Pandora or the "Simple Music Player" app? Or for Twitch streaming?

 

[sixteen-bit]

Oh snap

 

[jediyoshi]

Literally anything from the article

Xbox Platform head Mike Ybarra revealed the change on Twitter yesterday, noting that “we replaced Snap to improve multitasking, reduce memory use, improve overall speed, and free up resources going forward for bigger things.”​

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

good i never used it

Me neither. But why take away something that others may be using?

 

[Oynox]

What? Why?!

"Xbox snap achievements" is something I yell at my Kinect all the time!

There is a new achievement tracking overlay now.

 

[Lothars]

It's an okay feature but just for them to get rid of it with no replacement is dissapointing and seemingly par for the course for them.

I hope they have a replacement coming.

 

[Iva Demilcol]

Oh snap

*Badum tsss*

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Pip is replacing it most likely. The test run is the Achievement overlay perhaps.

now you will have the ability to set where you want the Pip to be instead of it shrinking your game.

just my guess though.

 

[t hicks]

Didn't use it much so I can understand why they'd get rid of it. I hope those rumors of them allowing picture in picture apps are true though, that'd be a better replacement if they can figure it out

 

[The Salt Life]

Literally anything from the article

Xbox Platform head Mike Ybarra revealed the change on Twitter yesterday, noting that “we replaced Snap to improve multitasking, reduce memory use, improve overall speed, and free up resources going forward for bigger things.”​

Good, my biggest gripe with snap was I would do it by mistake never know how to unsnap

 

[Wedzi]

Thank god. Was always cumbersome and resource hogging too apparently. Reminded of my old TV that would do picture and picture.

#teamfucksnap

 

[Deadpool_X]

How will Twitch work, then? As it stands now, it snapps the twitch app to allow you to start your broadcast and set your streaming options, then once you're streaming, you can click B to unsnap and go back full screen...

 

[MrBenchmark]

I'll be disappointed I can't play a game and snap TV at the same time anymore

This I can't express how pissed off I am. I bought the USB tuner from Microsoft just so I could watch news etc while I play.

 

[madmackem]

How will Twitch work, then? As it stands now, it snapps the twitch app to allow you to start your broadcast and set your streaming options, then once you're streaming, you can click B to unsnap and go back full screen...

Like ps4 I'd assume.

 

[Hispanic! At the Disco]

What about snapping for twitch? Thats all I really use it for but it seemed helpful for that.

 

[Paches]

Me neither. But why take away something that others may be using?

Because:

Microsoft is now on a mission to improve dashboard speed and multitasking, and snap mode is being removed to help improve the overall dashboard lag.

 

[dancrane212]

I liked it in concept but only ever used it a couple times with the only memorable one being when I plugged a PSTV into the HDMI and did some late game grinding in Xenogears while watching YouTube.

If this gives us better performance in the dashboard I'm all for it.

How will Twitch work, then? As it stands now, it snapps the twitch app to allow you to start your broadcast and set your streaming options, then once you're streaming, you can click B to unsnap and go back full screen...

It will be integrated into the new guide-bar if I heard right.

 

[Teggy]

Pretty much everything I actually liked about the otherwise terrible xbox one interface is going to be gone soon. Are they going to take live tv away next?

 

[Slayven]

I always envied that feature

 

[singhr1]

Pip is replacing it most likely. The test run is the Achievement overlay perhaps.

now you will have the ability to set where you want the Pip to be instead of it shrinking your game.

just my guess though.

That's what I'm guessing too. Like Cortana can overlay now too, no longer snapping a web search or w/e like b4.

 

[Lucifon]

Pip is replacing it most likely. The test run is the Achievement overlay perhaps.

now you will have the ability to set where you want the Pip to be instead of it shrinking your game.

just my guess though.

I think this is it. So we can hopefully just overlay a small video feed on the screen rather than a full app down the side

 

[DriftingSpirit]

Oh snap

lol

 

[yyr]

Still there but as an overlay

There is a new achievement tracking overlay now.

Hmmm. Looks pretty good actually, thanks for posting it.

I still feel bad for anyone that bought Threes! just because it could be played entirely in Snap mode.

 

[Noobcraft]

What? Why?!

"Xbox snap achievements" is something I yell at my Kinect all the time!

edit: actually read the article. If this helps speed up things, and they've already planned some sort of picture-in-picture-type replacement, then I suppose it's all well and good, I guess...

It looks like this now:

They're still tweaking things, but so far it's way faster.

 

[KageMaru]

Remember reading about this before and I couldn't be happier. Snapping apps is cumbersome and slow. Hope the replacement is faster.

 

[singhr1]

How will Twitch work, then? As it stands now, it snapps the twitch app to allow you to start your broadcast and set your streaming options, then once you're streaming, you can click B to unsnap and go back full screen...

You broadcast right from the guide. Either beam or Twitch.

Everyone just needs to read this: http://news.xbox.com/2017/01/23/xbox-creators-update-preview/

 

[PantsuJo]

Oh snap

This should be the first post here

 

[zewone]

Snap was a pretty half ass attempt at multitasking so it's nice to see the UI get a more sophisticated version of it.

 

[¡HarlequinPanic!]

liked it for a few applications but it was very obviously a resource hog and unwieldly to boot if you were using pad commands for it.

wonder what this means for twitch chat, tv and other more popular applications of it, though.

 

[The Elite]

We kinda knew this from MajorNelson over last few days but I guess it's reconfirmed?



Still there but as an overlay

EDIT: Or just look at this picture from Xbox Wire:

Much better.

Was never a fan of snap.

 

[Spukc]

Me neither. But why take away something that others may be using?

if it makes the ui run faster then yes please

 

[godhandiscen]

Great. It was a questionable design decision baked at the core of the platform with very little support.

 

[hanspampel]

perfect example of "good idea, bad execution and not much benefit"

 

[paulogy]

With Scorpio's extra CPU power, will Snap Mode be added back in for that system?

 

[watership]

I'll be disappointed I can't play a game and snap TV at the same time anymore

That's why they should have a picture in picture mode for the TV app. Give it an overlay and let us chose where to put it.

Do it xbox division. Do it.

 

[cakely]

Well, good.

Snap wasn't a great solution. A simple pop-up or slide-in overlay menu like on the Xbox 360 would have been much better.

 

[Interfectum]

So is this one of the final remnants of the initial Xbone reveal?

 

[SmokedMeat]

That was a big selling point. When's the class action lawsuit so I can get my $3.46?

 

[Gamezone]

I use it for TV and achievements all the time.

 

[timlot]

I'm sure Microsoft has usage data on snap mode that made removing it something that would have limited wide spread controversy. I'll miss it even though I rarely used it. Losing the option to use though still sucks.

 

[Gamezone]

But will this improve install speed? Probably not.

 

[giancarlo123x]

That was a big selling point. When's the class action lawsuit so I can get my $3.46?

I want in on this.

 

[LostDonkey]

I use this for snapping reference images of liveries from Google for creating skins in Forza games. I'm gonna miss this feature big time.

Not happy.

 

[Jetku]

Thank goodness.

I fully rely on Kinect for TV controls and it's a disaster when something snaps by mistake.