"Once in a while, rather frequently actually, the host OS will require an update, meaning the physical machine is going to get rebooted whether your code is running or not," he explained. "That’s a problematic thing for a game, and oftentimes it's in the middle of a multiplayer session. We’ve worked very hard to overcome that, but that’s not to say it’s going to be a reality in every case." -John Bruno XBONE lead programmer.
This is not as big of a deal as it was back in the PSX-PS2 days which had save points, with games auto saving more often now the potential loss of progress is not as significant. However, I would be pissed if I was playing a game and my system reset on me.
In addition, "The team behind Titanfall has previously spoken about how dependent the game will be on the Xbox One's cloud capabilities. The implication here, therefore, is that whenever the servers need to be updated or rebooted, the game will be unavailable." That is pretty bad news for XBONE potential killer app.
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