4 million people connected to Live
It was announced on Wednesday that four million people have now joined up to Xbox Live. This presumably includes Silver members and those only playing on an Xbox, but it’s still an impressive figure for a service that only really boomed last November.
There are also some nice facts and stats that have been posted too:
- Xbox Live has now reached more than 4 million members and is growing every day. We anticipate by June 2007 more than 6 million gamers will be connected to the Xbox Live network.
- Xbox Live is the world’s largest platform for high-definition, on-demand content with gamers downloading over 70 million pieces of gaming and entertainment content from Xbox Live Marketplace in just the first 11 months of launch.
- More than 70 percent of connected Xbox 360 consoles are downloading content from Xbox Live Marketplace, home to 2,000 pieces of gaming and entertainment content.
- Xbox Live Arcade has now surpassed 12 million downloads in less than a year. The popularity of Xbox Live has driven major publishers and independent game developers to submit more than a thousand Xbox Live Arcade game concepts to Microsoft for review.
- Xbox Live Arcade games average a phenomenal 24 percent trial-to-purchase conversion rate with #1 title UNO reaching a trial-to-purchase conversion rate of over 50 percent.
- Since the launch of Xbox Live in November 2002, gamers have spent more than two billion hours on the network playing games online with their friends around the world.
- Over 9 million text and voice messages are sent via Xbox Live every week.
You are now the 4,000,001 to join Xbox Live! Congratulations!
I wonder how many picture messages of someone’s rear-end are sent every week? I assume that that probably isn’t calculable (I received my first one last week). And if gamers have spent two billion hours online, how many billions of dollars have MS made out of us all so far, including subscription costs and Marketplace expenditure? The mind simply boggles.
Rather ironically, this news came during the maintainence that was taking place. I doubt anyone joined up on that day. If they did, it wouldn’t have registered. They could have at least announced it when everything was working properly again.
Expect to see more posts like this whenever Xbox Live reaches 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 million users. Heaven forbid the day it reaches 10 million, there will be events all around the world.
Thanks to Predator GR for submitting this.
Wasn’t it announced at e3 that there should be around 5 million before the holiday season?
depending on who you ask 4 million is around 5 million
This is all pretty old news. Slow day I guess. How about nobody has mentioned that SCDA requires a HDD or Memory Card to play.
Have you submitted that?
No you haven’t. SO unless you do, don’t complain. We do have other things to do you know.
You HAVE to have a memory unit and hard-drive to play wireless aswell
Pretty fucking obvious I would have thought, unless you plan on sitting down and playing through the whole game without turning off once.
Can’t find any “story” about it. There was a sticker on the back of the box though.
No you haven’t. SO unless you do, don’t complain. We do have other things to do you know.
Easy tiger.
It’s really easy to sit there and criticise when all you do is read. It takes you what, 15 minutes to catch up on everything, then you go and do something else. It takes a long time to construct posts, and this isn’t even our main jobs. You read ion yur spare time, do you expect us to have no spare time? We write because we enjoy doing it, but when you sit there and say “Jeez, old news” when you haven’t submitted a single article is just rude and makes you look stupid. Yes, we provide a service, and we get at least two fresh posts out a day (not inc. week-end), and often it’s more. I’m sorry this is old news to you; to others it might not be.
And how hard is it to find a box shot of the game?
“when you haven’t submitted a single article is just rude and makes you look stupid.”
You might wanna check who is submitting your articles. I do my share of submitting. I’ve been searching two days for an article since I bought the game and saw the sticker, just so I could submit it to you guys. Usually you ARE good about getting stuff out there that hasn’t been on the net for a week. So the fact that I mention it is because I have a high standard for what you guys do.
I meant a single article that is in the queue at the moment.
Not sure why that is even news–why would you ever NOT have a hard drive. Doesn’t every game need the hard drive to save games?
i just took a pic of the sticker. No 360 game yet has said “This game requires HDD or Memory Card to be PLAYED” Not to save a game, to be played.
Actually, Football Manager 2006 had that sticker on it. I know, I’ve got the game. Core users with no HDD can’t save a game on it.
Oh, the sticker you took a pic of, sorry, I thought you meant an official label. Not sure on your submit yet…
And kissmygritz, after some testing: Of course the game needs either of those to play, otherwise you wouldn’t have a profile to load up, so the game cannot start. Not news worthy I’m afraid. If it was required to save the game, then it’s different (like FM2006 as I mentioned).
the HDD isn’t much of an “option” if it requires you to have one to play a game.