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Xbox Live Population Reaches 4 Million

Microsoft announced today that Xbox Live has reached its four millioth user, with six million users expected by June 2007. 70 million items have been downloaded in the first 11 months, thanks to over 70% of Xbox 360 consoles being connected to the service. Xbox Live Arcade has seen 12 million games downloaded. That is a serious chunk of market share not being properly accounted for, if you think about it. The most popular game on Live is Halo 2, with Call of Duty 2 catching up. Nine million voice and text messages are sent every week. Since November 2002, 2 billion hours have been logged on the service.
(via Major Nelson and Digital Battle)

October 19th, 2006 Posted by Nathan Weinberg | Xbox Live, Xbox 360, Xbox, General | one comment



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