Xbox Live stat attack... 7 Million Live users

t E3 last week we got to sit down and chat with enthusiastic Xbox Live boss JJ Richards, and he was more than eager to throw his massive Xbox Live stats in our direction.

Usually these kinds of numbers are more sleep-inducing than a Horlicks and Rohypnol cocktail, but the massive numbers Microsoft has a achieved are bloody impressive.

As Richards points out, the 7 million-strong Xbox Live community is now the "biggest social network around a television".

[FeralPhoenix]

XBL continues to grow, its a great service and I think next gen gaming is better because of it.

[ben hates you]

i like xbox live, where i live i can't get a cable or dsl internet connection, i have satilite not fast enough to play games but i have it just for the downloads

[PS360PCROCKS]

Wow...

[Salvadore]

7 million users are alot considering the that MS has sold around 11 million consoles.

[RussianSniper]

I believe that's because most of their sales are from America, and since we have money, we can afford the $50.

Still too many 10 year old kids on it....How the hell do they afford xbox live anyway?!!!!

[xfrgtr]

xbox live include xbox one and xbox 360

[gnothe1]

its good that XBL is doing this great!! atleast this isnt one of them posts that say how much better the PSN is gonna be. an since I brought up the PSN, over the last 2 weeks since E3 XBL has released ALMOST 10 game DEMOS an ATLEAST 5 arcade games. all I have got on the PSN is a bunch of VIDEOS an 1 classic game. but I guess you get what you pay for!!

[BADBOYEK4]

XBOX LIVE for the 1ST XBOX and XBOX LIVE for the 360 are two differnt XBOX LIVES.The funny thing is the 1ST xbox live still have over 5 million people playing Halo,I cant imagine what it is going ot be like once HALO 3 releases in September for the XBOX 360.I wonder how many of those 5 million are going to buy a 360 and join xbox live for the 360.

[Arkham]

The 6 Million number announced in March, and the latest 7 Million user number includes all of Xbox Live users ("community", not just "Gold" subscibers) since the service's inception in 2002. It's still an impressive number.

Microsoft hasn't announced specific numbers for Gold-only subscribers.

Still, it's a 3 million-user increase since last October:
http://kotaku.com/gaming/xb...

Here are more detailed numbers from March's 6M announcement:

http://kotaku.com/gaming/xb...

[neogeo]

so hit that little plus on my bubble bar.
this one bubble stuff aint no fun

[DJ]

how many of those users have the ability to use online multiplayer (i.e. Gold Members). Silver members don't contribute anything from a financial perspective, both towards Microsoft and developers/publishers who upload content that is specific to online multiplayer.

[power of Green]

You've been saying this sence you joined this site and i'm still trying to figure out why it matters.

Everybody Gold or Silver is being exsposed to sponsering ads. Both Gold and Silver are Purchasing content and Both Gold and Silver members are watching/renting buying shows etc on XBL. To say Silver members can not contribute to XBL makes you sound like an idiot so desparte to bash MS its sad like a junky on Meth.

Silver members can almost use and buy the same content Gold members can buy; they can't play multi player. The devs can still profit off of the Silver members and the studios do not see different levels of profit from the two plans. lol Its best if you do not ever comment on the 360 ever again.

[jared81799]

wasnt it like 5 months ago they said 8 million users. none the less impressive, but it has been stuck in that range for years now.

[power of Green]

MS never said they have 8 million people on XBL 5 months ago. lol it was 4 or 5 something like that i'll find the announcement and Edit this post.

#10 360's are connected lol, even Bungie can give fairly accurate numbers on how many people play halo at a time i'm sure finding out how many people connect to your servers isn't that challenging.

[dale1]

if 80% sold were core how do they arrive to that figure?
are these just register or members figures?

[razer]

Can still use the service. That's why for the longest time they had 50MB limit on the arcade games so they can be downloaded to a memory card. Same thing with themes and gamerpics..

[FeralPhoenix]

"......if 80% sold were core how do they arrive to that figure?"

huh?, where did you get that statistic from? The Premium has always sold alot better than the Core, the only people I knew who brought a Core was at launch when the Premium was sold out....and most of them bought a HDD later when they're ready/have the money. I'm sure the Core does sell to a select group (younger gamers IMO) but its been by far the least popular of the two. Now since the new Elite has arrived it seems to be the most popular of the 3 SKUs.