Xbox Live Hits 50 Million Downloads Mark

Posted Aug 31, 2006 at 5:27AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: News, Xbox Live Tags: Europe, Microsoft, Microsoft Points, xbox 360 cheats, xbox 360 hacks, xbox 360 mods, xbox 360 titles, Xbox Live Arcade

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Microsoft has once again released a report about Xbox Live usage, and it's quite an interesting read. According to it, Xbox Live users have downloaded content from the Marketplace 50 Million times now, an impressive number especially if you take into consideration that the 25 Million mark was reached just three months ago.

Also noteworthy is the fact that users unlocked 600,000 Madden NFL 07 achievements and hosted more than 2 million hours of online play via Xbox Live since the game was released on August 22.
Texas Hold 'Em comes up with similarly incredible stats, making the record as the fastest downloaded item ever on the Xbox Live Marketplace, with over 100 downloads per minute in the first 24 hours of the titleÂ’s release.

To top it off, we have a few additional statistics to go over...

Top Xbox Live Statistics

• More than 50 million downloads of gaming and entertainment content from Xbox Live Marketplace to date
• Over 2 billion hours spent on Xbox Live by gamers across the globe since the launch of the Xbox Live online gaming network in November 2002
• More than 60 percent of Xbox 360 owners are connected to Xbox Live
• 1,300,000 text and voice messages are sent via Xbox Live every day. Currently totaling half a billion sent messages between the Xbox Live community per year, this figure is set to explode with the launch of the Xbox Live Vision camera on 19th September, 2006 in the U.S. and 6th October in Europe
• 65 per cent of all connected consoles already downloading and playing Xbox Live Arcade titles
• Over 8 million downloads of Xbox Live Arcade games following the launch of Xbox 360
• Over 2 billion Microsoft Points sold to date

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# WOW — Guest 2006-08-31 09:23

$25,000,000 from MS Points alone...

Geez.

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# I believe it — Guest 2006-08-31 09:41

Marketplace is awesome! Live is awesome! It's a convinience lots are willing to pay for! So yes these figures are really belivable

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# yep — Shiftedx 2006-08-31 10:41

Microsoft deffinatley struck gold with xbox live, With the release of the camera messaging with deffinatly be going waaaay up.

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# xbox live.. — Guest 2006-08-31 12:23

rules



marketplace rules

aracde rules

online play on console rules...

and never would of happened as quick with M$

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# I dont mind paying — Guest 2006-08-31 12:53

For a service that ensures it kicks arse.



Well done Mircosoft.

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