Arcade Berg aka. "Learning Game Design with Arcade Berg"

Screenshot Button

I just had an idea.

One thing I really like with the iPhone is it's "hidden" screenshot feature. If you press the Home-button and the Lock-button at the same time, you take a screenshot and save it to your image-folder. It works anytime and anywhere, no matter what application or game you're running. I'm using this a lot to take screenshots from different games and some cool apps.

I would really love if there was an additional button on the controllers for the PS3 and 360 right above the Start-button. I want a shiny "Screenshot"-button there, which if pressed takes a screenshot of what's on the screen and saves it to my console's harddrive.

You often find yourself in situations where you'd want to take a screenshot but can't.

A lot of people take screenshots when playing on the PC, because it's so simple. You either use a program for it (like Fraps), some games have built in screenshot-keys or you snap a picture from the screen and paste it into an image program like Photoshop or even MS Paint.

And this isn't something that I only as a developer want, I know me and many gamers want it because we like looking at, creating and spreading screenshots. And personally, I don't think the developers/publishers of the games should have a problem with it, because all you do is getting people to notice your game. Unfortunately, many of them do care... A lot. Because they don't want the game shown in "uncontrolled" ways.

So, give us this feature you dirty console creators!

Select, Screen, Start