Sony has filed a patent for a PlayStation controller with a dedicated rewind button, allowing players to revisit past gameplay moments easily. This patent would allow players to bookmark moments ...

The company has patented a new type of controller that comes with a rewind button. This would allow users to rewind gameplay with “user-triggered bookmarks.” The patent was discovered on ...

The rewind button test will be expanded to about a quarter of viewers in the coming days, according to Twitch. Twitch is also testing two other buttons.

But on balance, the rewind button looks likely to just be a glorified video capture feature. As per the patent filing, "during live game play of a video game, a player may wish to review recently ...

The application was submitted in early 2023, but was only just published on October 31, 2024. Sony’s rationale for a rewind button on PlayStation controllers ...

At any point, you can hold down the Share button and pull up the option to view, save, and share up to the last 15 minutes of your gameplay. However, all this has to happen outside of your game.

To have a pause or rewind button on a TV or radio, the only real requirement is a bunch of memory. The TiVO did this with a hard drive, and [MagicWolfi] is doing this with 256 MB of SDRAM.