At E3 we shared details on how Smart Match that is coming to Xbox One.  I thought you’d like to hear more about Xbox One’s Smart Match how it will will work:

Smart Match finds the perfect players for the perfect game 
Smart Match on Xbox One is matchmaking evolved. It’s smarter, faster and optimized to help you play with exactly the people you want, when you want. The advanced party system goes way beyond the beacons of Xbox 360, which was limited to people you already knew. Helping you discover and connect easily with players is now central to the experience. In addition, for the first time ever, games will be able to share player stats with Xbox Live and each other; to learn, evolve, and provide gamers with the best possible matchmaking available. The results? Titles have the ability to match you with other players based on reputation (which we will be talking more about in a post tomorrow), skill, language, age, and even your specific gameplay style. You won’t find yourself in way over your head but you’ll always have a good challenge.

Smart Match frees up your time 
With Smart Match, you can do whatever you want while Xbox One finds your perfect match. This means that less popular multiplayer modes and maps that have traditionally taken a long time to find players suddenly become playable. Because Snap mode is a core feature of Xbox One that lets you do two things at once, you no longer have to wait in lobbies while Xbox Live is matchmaking for you. One friend can even set up matches for your whole party. While Xbox Live is matchmaking, you’re untethered and free to do what you want, like watch TV or check out your favorite website or apps while waiting for your next game. If you’re playing digital games, you can even play one game while Smart Match prepares a second. This freedom to break out of waiting in lobbies and do whatever you want is what separates Xbox One from systems that don’t have a way to instantly switch between tasks.

Smart Match lets you know when your game is ready 
After you or a party member inputs the criteria for your perfect game, do something more fun than waiting; it’s up to you. Play another game. Find some new DLC. Jump on Reddit. Update your movie queue. Play some music. Skype with your friends. Like. Comment. Retweet. Take yourself as many touch points away from the matchmaking process as you can and you still don’t need to worry about finding your way back. Once Xbox One is done finding your perfect match, it will prompt you with a simple toast—no matter where you are or what you’re doing—so you can jump straight into playing

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man i really hope the stuff with the age works. would be so awesome if you could play only with people 25+ or 20+ or whatever.

i can imagine that especially people above 30 or even 40 would love to play online with headset but have it hard to find people like them. there is only the possibility to play without headset or have a bunch of teens in your game which is not really what you want if you are older.

Sounds way better then trueskill matchmaking for 360

Its truly the little things that work behind the scenes, that help differentiate it

This all sounds fantastic.

Sounds like a really conveniant feature. Slowly but surely starting to dig the Xbox180. Great marketing by MS in the past few weeks!

I can already see the Youtube videos of dudes in their 20's and 30's creating accounts saying they are 12 just so they can smash little kids and piss them off.

Overall though if it does work where you can only play with certain aged players, I think I would like that.

well there will be always some fools but of millions of gamers most will just tell the truth so that this system will work because most want to profit from such a system for their own experience.

Why are you all liking this???

Same age range, that makes sense. 35 year old playing with 10 year olds is looked down upon.

Same skill, same play style, etc. wtf? I do NOT want to play with my clones. This just sounds like it will suck the fun out. I'll reserve final judgement till I try it myself of course.

Doing stuff during the lobby is also kinda nice but weird. Most games today have important things happen during the lobby. Again maybe it will be great once I try it myself but it sounds like a bad idea.

BUT, this article confirms at least two games can be running simultaneously. Now that I'm chill with.

lol god forbid your matches are more fair and challenging. I mean its fun once in a while to face noobs and totally ruin them, but nothing beats the satisfaction of narrowly beating out someone who you thought was an even match.

Sounds absolutely awesome, now 343i needs to be bring the real trueskill back in Halo 5 and this system will really shine! :)