For the past couple of days, a few of us G4 staffers have been discussing the pros and cons of Microsoft and Sony’s approaches to their respective online content offerings. Stephen “Stephen” Johnson regaled us all with tales about his non-gaming friends finding themselves gravitating towards the Xbox 360 thanks to its accessible Marketplace interface and features like being able to stream Netflix without having to use a disc, among other things.
Anyway, the general consensus has consistently been that Microsoft really got its act together (eventually) in terms of Xbox Live, and thanks to Microsoft’s social media lead for Live, TriXie, we now have some rather staggering statistics to quantify just how popular the service has been since it launched back in 2002. Get this:
"In 7 years, Xbox LIVE members have spent more than 17 BILLION hours on Xbox LIVE. That’s more than 2 hours for every person on the planet,” TriXie posted on Twitter today.
That’s also almost 2 million years, or around 850 hours for every one of the current 20 million-plus Live subscribers. If for some reason those stats aren’t doing it for you, TriXie goes on to say that the Xbox Live Marketplace has seen “more than 1.2 billion downloads of gaming and entertainment content,” which equates to about “100 [downloads] per second!”
Clearly, Microsoft got more than a little right with Xbox Live. Of course, the big question now is: Where will it go from here?
Another important question: How many of those 17 billion hours/1.2 billion downloads do you think you’ve been responsible for?
Source: TriXie
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spartankiller84
Xbox live is awesome lol
nightsnipe
Congrats fellow Live members
lordxero
17 billion hours of peoples lives wasted on a gaming machine. Imagine would could have been done productive wise. this is nothing to brag about.
Gyrorobo
@Grek176 - In case you didn't know technically Xbox live is free (silver) you can still play games and download stuff with the free one. It's the Gold that you pay for, and basically the only difference is Gold has online multiplayer, and party chats.... which are addicting :D
tsep23
I own a PS3 and a 360. I prefer the PSN because it's free. I understand why newbies might like Xboxlive. It has a cleaner interface. That said, Xbox live makes me feel trapped because it doesn't have the freedom of the internet browser. I haven't been restricted to the Netflix disc because even now I use PlayOn media server. And Netflix sux by the way. All the instant stream movies are pretty much already on TV. I stream movies on the internet browser. In my experience I've found better competition on PSN with games like Madden and MW2. And let's not get started on Playstation Home. Live fans are getting excited about the new game room. Home has had a gameroom for several months now... and it's FREE. The games on home are way better than those on gameroom too. Aside from the games Home is just pure fun. It has a club feature. I like going to the comedy club myself. Then there is the chess game in the mall. Movie theater with movies trailers, tv episodes, and other FREE content. Let me not forget the poker. Ea Sports arena is great. Poker, racing, and a driving range. Ahhh, I could go on but this post is getting long. Bottom line, I own both consoles and I don't think Live comes close to PSN. In otherwords, I would pay for PSN before I would pay for Live.
SchoolBoyReggin
they need 2 tell me how many xbox live cards that add up 2
ranger095
now that i think about it...im responsible for approximately 1 billion hours, give or take.
RedRingsOfDeath
maybe... > 450 hours and like 20 downloads
yybuckeye
Maybe they'er talkin bout the PS3 controler?...huh....makes me want to chop off my hands
unfungames
lets see...i played COD4 for 33 days. there's 792 hours right there, so i would expect ive been on xbox live for over 5,000 hours total in 5 years. YIKES
krowsnest618
"Free" doesn't always make it better, XBL is only slightly over 4 dollars a month, and when money starts rolling in, a piece of it can be used to upgrade the service, or at least keep those working on it in business.Ive probably contributed a few hundred hours to this consensus myself :D
ColeBeans
I think it is impossible to not be able to use the PSN it is sooooo easy. PSN>LIVE LOL JK, but it is FREE wut u expect?
grek176
that number could b doubled if live went free............. just saying
gravy666
Bill Gates is a rich sonuva
MyZtErY
What I think he ment by that is The Xbox Live store is easier to access than the PSN store is.
GingerKid
I think you have to an absolute retard to think the Playstation store isn't accessible
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