just came across this…
“Perhaps most intriguing, however, is that Xbox One gives game developers the ability to access Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. That leads to a few obvious and immediate applications: All your downloaded and installed games and achievements are synced to the cloud and can be accessed and played without interruption on any Xbox One you sign in to; <mark>stable, dedicated servers for every multiplayer game rather than the notoriously fragile practice of hosting matches on one participant’s console;</mark> even multiplayer matches that can grow to 64, even 128 participants, rather than the usual limit of 16 or 32.”
