14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has confirmed that its Xbox One next-generation console will deliver a new type of Xbox Live experience, with special systems, features, or achievements.
The Xbox One was revealed to the world yesterday and Microsoft focused heavily on its entertainment features while showing off a few games, like Call of Duty: Ghosts, Forza Motorsport 5, or Quantum Break.
Now, the studio has revealed that Xbox One will be accompanied by the next generation of the Xbox Live online service.
According to Microsoft's Wire, Xbox One's Live will be powered by over 300,000 servers worldwide and includes a variety of new features, like an intelligent matchmaking service, the possibility to record and share gameplay, or improved achievements.
"Xbox One is built to amplify an all-new generation of Xbox Live that is more powerful, more personal and more intelligent. Unleashing the virtually unlimited power of the cloud makes everything more convenient and accessible, from allowing games to be installed in segments so that gameplay can start quickly to updates downloading in the background," the company said.
"Save and store your personalized profile, games and entertainment in the cloud to access them anytime, from any Xbox One console. In addition, existing Xbox Live Gold Membership for Xbox 360 will seamlessly carry over to Xbox One. Xbox Live takes you deeper into the games you love with all-new features."
Plenty of major features are baked into the online service for the Xbox One, so check out a list below.
• Smart Match - A new Smart Match matchmaking system virtually eliminates waiting in lobbies by estimating wait times and finding people you want to play with while you are enjoying other activities — reputation fundamentally matters and helps find best matches. • Game DVR - A dedicated Game DVR captures and accesses your magic moments, all saved to the cloud. Along with sharing tools, you will have the most amazing bragging rights with Xbox Live. • Living Games - Dynamic, living worlds evolve and improve the more you play, and advanced artificial intelligence can learn to play like you, so friends can play against your shadow. • Expanded achievements - A new and expanded achievements system captures video of your epic moments, continues to grow a game’s achievements over time and rewards you in new ways, and your Gamerscore carries over from Xbox 360. • Xbox SmartGlass - Xbox SmartGlass is natively part of the Xbox One platform, built in from the beginning with the ability to quickly render content directly onto your device, and now more devices can connect at one time for multiplayer and shared entertainment.
The Xbox One and its new Xbox Live service will be launched at the end of the year.