Microsoft Releases A Bunch of Stats on Xbox 360

[Morfiend]

Pretty interesting stuff. Specially the amount of software sold vs the PS3 and Wii. Granted they are newer, but still.

    Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE Momentum Facts 'n Stats

    Leadership: Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE are leading the charge into the future of gaming and entertainment, bringing the best games, an active community and a growing catalogue of high definition entertainment to all members of the household.

    * More than 11.6 million Xbox 360 consoles have sold across the 37 countries where it is currently available. Xbox LIVE is currently available in 25 countries across the globe.

    · According to U.S. NPD data, gamers have bought more software for the Xbox 360 (24.3 million units), than software for PS3 and Wii combined (19.8 million units).

    * Faster than expected, Xbox LIVE has eclipsed the 7 million member milestone and is on track to reach 10 million members by the end of June 2008. In fact, in the last year we've added a new Xbox LIVE member every 8 seconds.

    Gaming: With the greatest lineup in the history of video games, Xbox 360 is hands down the best gaming console on the market.

    * There are more than 250 games available today on Xbox 360, including 86 Xbox LIVE Arcade games.

    * Xbox 360 is the next-gen console with the largest games attach rate at an astounding 6.3 games sold per Xbox 360 owner.

    * Xbox LIVE members have spent more than 3.2 billion hours playing games on Xbox LIVE with their friends around the world. That is equal to 137 million days or more than 376,000 years of gaming.

    * To date, Xbox 360 owners have unlocked more than 600 million Achievements. All of those unlocked Achievements have created a total combined Gamerscore of more than 14 billion.

    * There have been 2.5 billion game sessions hosted since the launch of Xbox 360, with more than 5.6 million hosted each day so far in 2007.

    * Xbox LIVE Arcade has been a huge hit on Xbox 360, with nearly 70% of all connected consoles downloading and playing Xbox LIVE Arcade titles.

    * Xbox LIVE Marketplace currently offers nearly 200 free trials and demos, giving owners more free playable content than any other console.


    Entertainment: Xbox 360 is the center of digital entertainment in the living room, offering the best in high definition games, movies and television along with access to all your friends, digital music and pictures.

    * Xbox 360 continues to lead with the largest library of on-demand high-definition movies and television in the U.S. on-demand market. Twenty-nine movie studios and TV networks continue to provide a growing catalogue of premium high- and standard-definition entertainment content that to date totals 2,800 hours.

    * Xbox LIVE Marketplace is now the leading provider of on-demand high-definition content in the U.S., providing more than twice the number of hours as leading cable operators.

    * Xbox LIVE Marketplace is home to a growing catalogue of more than 9,000 pieces of individual gaming and entertainment content, downloadable at the click of a button.

    * There have been 290 million downloads of gaming and entertainment content from Xbox LIVE Marketplace

    Social Networking: Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE offer the largest, most active online community of friends, family and rivals worldwide.

    * Xbox LIVE is the largest social network in the living room with 2.6 million IM, text and voice messages sent over the service every day.

    * Since Xbox LIVE launched, 3.1 billion games sessions have been hosted on the service.

    * The average Xbox LIVE Gold subscriber has 23 friends on their Xbox LIVE friends list.

    * More than 1.2 billion cross-game invites have been sent since the launch of Xbox 360.

    Xbox LIVE Top 10: Check out the list of the top 10 games played over Xbox LIVE, as well as the top 10 worldwide downloads for Xbox LIVE Arcade and Xbox LIVE Marketplace Demos since Xbox 360 launched in November, 2006.

    The top 10 games played over Xbox LIVE worldwide:

    1. Halo 2
    2. Gears of War
    3. Hexic HD
    4. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
    5. Call of Duty 3
    6. Call of Duty 2
    7. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 3
    8. Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
    9. Crackdown
    10. PGR3

    The top 10 Xbox LIVE Arcade downloads worldwide:

    11. Aegis Wing
    12. Uno
    13. Texas Hold 'em
    14. Geometry Wars Retro Evolved
    15. Bankshot Billiards 2
    16. Street Fighter 'II Hyper Fighting
    17. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Classic Arcade
    18. Worms
    19. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
    20. Contra

    The top 10 Xbox LIVE Marketplace Demos downloads worldwide:

    1. Crackdown
    2. Lost Planet E3 2006
    3. Dead Rising
    4. BioShock
    5. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
    6. Forza Motorsport 2
    7. Sonic the Hedgehog
    8. Saints Row
    9. Superman Returns
    10. Colin McRae: DIRT

[murdoc]

Why is Oblivion listed as number 8 on the 'played over Xbox Live' list? You can't play Oblivion over Xbox Live, unless they count downloadable content as 'playing' over XBL.

[schild]

The word "Japan" is nowhere in that release. Hah!

[Big Gulp]

The word "Japan" is nowhere in that release. Hah!

Yeah, I almost feel like MS should just give up on Japan.  If anything, turn your focus more towards Europe and lock up those westerners who still trend towards Sony.  From what I gather it's done best in the UK, but could stand to do better in continental Europe.

360's doing fine in America; shit, the thing is practically Fortress America.

[Velorath]

The word "Japan" is nowhere in that release. Hah!

Japan is irrelevant until they manage to get some better taste in games.

[LK]

· According to U.S. NPD data, gamers have bought more software for the Xbox 360 (24.3 million units), than software for PS3 and Wii combined (19.8 million units).

I hate bullshit statistics.  As Morfiend mentioned, this is just a big "DUH."

[stray]

Most games suck, Vel. Lets be fair now. 

[Velorath]

Most games suck, Vel. Lets be fair now. 

My Housekeeping Diary on the DS was in the top 10 for games sold in Japan last week.

[schild]

It's true. Japan has gone off the deep end. They really don't matter anymore. The only reason Sony or Microsoft are EVEN fucking with japan is to keep japanese companeis on board so they can localize their games. Shirokishi is going to do 10x better here than in Japan. It's pretty much guaranteed. They just have to get Level 5 to finish it - which requires they be in Japan.

[Morfiend]

Why is Oblivion listed as number 8 on the 'played over Xbox Live' list? You can't play Oblivion over Xbox Live, unless they count downloadable content as 'playing' over XBL.

I think they need to reword the entry to "Games played the most while connected to Xbox Live".

[Jain Zar]

It's true. Japan has gone off the deep end. They really don't matter anymore. The only reason Sony or Microsoft are EVEN fucking with japan is to keep japanese companeis on board so they can localize their games. Shirokishi is going to do 10x better here than in Japan. It's pretty much guaranteed. They just have to get Level 5 to finish it - which requires they be in Japan.

Japan has never really mattered as much as early 90s EGM and Gamefan used to claim they did.  (Hell, even in the Genesis days the big titles weren't Japanese besides Sonic.  Everything else was EA created/published just about.

And even less now.  Its all European and North American developed games that make the big bank.

Hell, just look at those 30 listed games and demos.  Only 7 of them are Japanese created.  And are mostly old arcade games.
Maybe if they stop making weeaboo loli infested titles the rest of the world might give a shit.

[Tannhauser]

The 360 is leading the pack and will pull even further ahead.  The PS3 and Wii have no answer to the gaming onslaught that is now hitting.

Bioshock-Halo 3-Orange Box-Mass Effect-Call of Duty 4 just to name the biggies.  This is all before 2008.

The 2nd generation of the Console Wars have already been won, by the time the PS3 catches up, the 3rd gen will be almost ready for deployment.

[Trippy]

2nd gen? Were you born in the 90s or something?

[Musashi]

Console Wars

[Miasma]

Sony defense force.

With the stupidity of many people who champion their console of choice as though Sony/Microsoft were major religions I really can't tell if that site is being sardonic because there actually are people who could think that way.

[Fabricated]

The 360 is leading the pack and will pull even further ahead.  The PS3 and Wii have no answer to the gaming onslaught that is now hitting.

Bioshock-Halo 3-Orange Box-Mass Effect-Call of Duty 4 just to name the biggies.  This is all before 2008.

The 2nd generation of the Console Wars have already been won, by the time the PS3 catches up, the 3rd gen will be almost ready for deployment.

Ehhhh, no.

[schild]

Sony defense force.

With the stupidity of many people who champion their console of choice as though Sony/Microsoft were major religions I really can't tell if that site is being sardonic because there actually are people who could think that way.

It's run by the Wii60 people.

[UnSub]

Of those 12 million Xbox 360's sold, I'd love to know how many were returned due to the red ring o'death.

If it's up to the 30% failure rate I've read about elsewhere, that's a lot of dead 360s.

[Tannhauser]

Dunno what I was thinking about 2nd gen, my bad.  I've only been on consoles since the first Xbox. And no, not born in the 90's, I played Pong and got to play Odyssey before it was released.  Game nirvana lolz.

SDF is a satire site I thought.

I lean heavily towards the 360, but wouldn't mind buying the other two.  Motorstorm is the first racing game since Carmageddon that I'm really into.  But, like many, won't pony up the dough for the PS3.

[Bunk]

My blood boils a little every time I see them brag about their wonderful on demand movie selection. Yea, check that out in Canada bitches - my XBox Live downloadable movie/tv section has 6 things in it - a UFC preview and 5 things from PBS. Thats all it has ever offered. Assholes.

[Grand Design]

The 2nd generation of the Console Wars have already been won, by the time the PS3 catches up, the 3rd gen will be almost ready for deployment.

I gots to disagree with that assumption.  The Xbox and Wii are certainly doing well, but for varying reasons.  The PS3, while lagging in sales, is designed to be a five-year (+?) machine.  It's technically superior to the other two and thus may last into  the next iteration of consoles - much as the PS2 has continued to endure into this iteration.  Sony is not stupid, despite the internet nerd raging.

The Wii is phun and cheap.  Woohoo.

The Xbox has the Microsoft juggernaut to force-feed it onto the industry.  You can goose-step to that beat if you like it.

[Miasma]

A lot of people will buy a PS3 once Sony finally gives up and drops the price, especially Metal Gear and Final Fantasy fans.

[Sky]

From amazon at the moment:

Top Sellers in Video Games
Updated hourly

1.      Halo 3 by Microsoft
2.      Halo 3 Limited Edition by Microsoft Games
3.      Wii by Nintendo
4.      Xbox 360 HD DVD Player by Microsoft Games
5.      Wii Nunchuk Controller by Nintendo
6.      Halo 3 Legendary Edition by Microsoft Games
7.      Xbox 360 Wireless Controller by Microsoft
8.      Xbox 360 Console Includes 20GB Hard Drive (with HDMI) by Microsoft
9.      PlayStation 3 (60GB) by Sony Computer Entertainment
10.      Xbox 360 120GB Hard Drive by Microsoft

[Grand Design]

Agreed.  The price is the only thing stopping me, and once it goes down a notch I will gladly buy one. 

I am overly confident that this is the case with most gamers.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with the PS3 except for the fact that Nintendo purposefully made a cheap PoS system with magic wiggle wands and Microsoft has the industry-dominating monetary power to sell poorly made products below cost in order to attempt to drive competitors out of business.

Not complaining, I'm just saying...

[Trippy]

The 2nd generation of the Console Wars have already been won, by the time the PS3 catches up, the 3rd gen will be almost ready for deployment.

I gots to disagree with that assumption.  The Xbox and Wii are certainly doing well, but for varying reasons.  The PS3, while lagging in sales, is designed to be a five-year (+?) machine.  It's technically superior to the other two and thus may last into  the next iteration of consoles - much as the PS2 has continued to endure into this iteration.

Except that the Xbox was the technically superior machine to the PS2.

[Big Gulp]

The Xbox has the Microsoft juggernaut to force-feed it onto the industry.  You can goose-step to that beat if you like it.

So MS=Nazis...  I guess Sony and Nintendo aren't faceless megacorps that only want your money.  No, they're shiny, happy businesses that only care about you, the gamer.   

[Velorath]

Agreed.  The price is the only thing stopping me, and once it goes down a notch I will gladly buy one. 

I am overly confident that this is the case with most gamers.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with the PS3 except for the fact that Nintendo purposefully made a cheap PoS system with magic wiggle wands and Microsoft has the industry-dominating monetary power to sell poorly made products below cost in order to attempt to drive competitors out of business.

Not complaining, I'm just saying...

Out of curiosity, are you under the impression that Sony isn't selling the PS3 below cost?