6 Million Strong ….and growing!
You can bicker all day about which console will end up with the best graphics, but it is not hard to see who is king in the online space. And just to rub a bit more dirt in Sony’s face, Microsoft has just let it be known that XBL has hit its 6 million members goal. This must be a relief for Microsoft, especially after the whole 10 million sold hoopla. Online consoles are growing at a huge rate and over the next 5 years I could see that number doubling if Microsoft can keep pumping out the good games and even better service. Here are some statistics that bear mentioning.
* Following the launch of the Xbox LIVE online gaming network in November 2002, gamers have spent over 2.3 billion hours on the network playing games online with their friends around the world. This is equal to 95 million days of gaming or over 260,000 years. With our top title, Halo 2, which is being played on both the Xbox and Xbox 360, gamers have spent over 710 million hours playing online with over a half a billion games played.
* Xbox LIVE on Xbox 360 continues to grow as a social community; we are seeing an average of over 2,000,000 text and voice messages sent every day between members on the service.
* The average Xbox LIVE Gold subscriber has 22 friends on their Xbox LIVE friends list.
*To date, Xbox 360 owners have unlocked nearly 300 million Achievements. All of those unlocked Achievements have created a total combined Gamerscore of nearly 7.5 billion.
How many members do you think XBL will have by 2010, let us know in our comments section.
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Is this number the CURRENT ACTIVE members? Or is this total members ever logging on to the service? Free Silver or Paid Gold? My guess is we’ll never know these facts for sure because their subscription rates are not doing very well. 25 million xboxs and 10 million 360s has only produced 6 million online gamers? That doesn’t sound so hot when you think about it, although it’s getting better than the 10% penetration of the original xbox.
First off id like to say that i can smell a Sony fan boy in here lol
second i think this is great news i feel that in 3 years they might have another 3-4 million
And Subnet6 in my veiw if u compare the subscription to the PS Brand name those #’s dont even come close
But console wise id have to say thats another story
I hope you don’t think _I’m_ a Sony fanboy. If I had to choose my lease favorite console maker, it would be Sony. I’m just saying, this whole online penetration thing is trumped up, by microsoft AND sony. I’m sure Sony will have some equally misleading numbers for their online soon enough.
i didnt think that u were i just wanted to put that out there as a joke ive seen ur comments b4 and they are very intelligent and backed by info
and as for the consoles they all have there holes so to speak
Thanks Sifer, but don’t give me too much credit! I can be biased just like anyone. I’m just not biased for the PS3.