Xbox Live By The Numbers - Kotaku Comments

Xbox Live By The Numbers

stevosaurus — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:53:12 MST

stevosaurus

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peacefuloutrage — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:47:45 MST

@ArmyofJuan: Go to the marketplace blade.

New Arrivals -> Game Demoes -> XNA Creator's Club.

Download that. After you download it, go to the games blade, and XNA Creator's Club should be in the menu under My Games. In that menu, you can download games and play them like normal after they download.

peacefuloutrage

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GangstaSmurf — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:56:41 MST

That's over 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GangstaSmurf

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PsycheDiver — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:24:12 MST

I wonder what's the max number of achievements available...

PsycheDiver

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Jim_Lahey_Is_A_Drunk — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:15:13 MST

lot of reckoning

Jim_Lahey_Is_A_Drunk

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Touy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:52:37 MST

@Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB: That sounds about right. I generally get around 1/4-1/3rd of the achievements just from beating the game and unless it's really good have little incentive to do much else in it.

Touy

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hrunting — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:09:07 MST

I'm intrigued by the number of achievements. Is that just what's on Live accounts or are they somehow factoring in people who don't have Live?

hrunting

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Allen750 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:52:07 MST

Own'd.

Allen750

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MURDERFACE — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:40:01 MST

A billion achievements?!! wow and Obama is caling us a bunch of underachievers fuck him we do shit well we do stuff online anyways.

MURDERFACE

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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:39:31 MST

@Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB: Achievements... not achievements points. I expected more from my cherry-bottom sexy penguin :(

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

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Guizzy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:50:56 MST

@JackTretton: What do you get for finishing a game in the traditional sense of the word?

Squat as well. At least achievements leave some sort of trace of what you did and didn't do in the game.

Guizzy

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TheCleaningGuy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:37:25 MST

@Witzbold: Now, I know my post history has all the depth of a puddle, but can I at least call doobymoo out?
BTW Witz, what's with the harshness towards kirby lately? Did I miss something?

TheCleaningGuy

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JohnnyHash — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:37:18 MST

Billions and billions of achievements. Ahh forget it I'm going back to look at the eclipse.

JohnnyHash

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doobymoo — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:33:59 MST

That's a whole lotta of e-penis.

doobymoo

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Irenicus-the one and only — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:15:01 MST

@Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB: Too much math.

Irenicus-the one and only

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tljent — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:07:24 MST

Achievers that are achieving. The Dude abides.

tljent

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Doomstalk — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:06:22 MST

@Witzbold: Burn!

Doomstalk

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Witzbold — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:02:13 MST

@Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB: Kirby I wouldnt be chastising folks on the grounds of a comment is deep or not in relation to your own posting history.

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Father-Time — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:58:13 MST

100,000 Halo filsm uploaded every day? Why do I have a feeling that Microsoft just pulled that number out of thin air? Actually since only microsoft could know the numbers for all those other 'statistics' they could easily have made them all up. Take it with a grain of salt folks.

Father-Time

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CanaryWundaboy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:53:53 MST

It's actual achievements, not achievement points.
Which works out at about 200 achievements per person....
Now Ive ownt 40 games...and got about 1k achievements...

So actually...that isn't that bad. :/

CanaryWundaboy

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Jac21 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:45:29 MST

@Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB:

Huh?

Jac21

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phrequency — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:33:32 MST

@KeroseneClimax: hey well obama begs to differ. 2 billion it is! =P

phrequency

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Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:31:31 MST

@lionkitten: @tnx3: Hmmm...Okay....So it's 85 achievements per person.

The 360 has an attach rate of roughly 9. That means 11,880,000x9= 106,920,000 Xbox Games (assuming no XBLA games were used to obtain achievements, which is clearly not true, but let's ignore it for the sake of the math.)

1,000,000,000 \ 106,920,000 =

9.4 achievements per game, per person.

With an average of 39 acievements per game, that comes out to roughly...

25% of all achievements in every 360 game ever sold being unlocked, assuming it's universal.

Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

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Furious_Liver — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:24:21 MST

@DMeisterJ: IT IS THE HARBINGER OF YOUR DOOM, FODDER! MUHUHAHA!

Furious_Liver

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KeroseneClimax — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:23:17 MST

@KeroseneClimax: hmm...

@JackTretton: Nothing particularly wrong with getting achievements, it's just a part of the game. Knowing you accomplished something supposedly challenging isn't so bad. It's when you become a neurotic compulsive completionist that likes to scream at everyone about what you did, is when it becomes a problem.

KeroseneClimax

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NightMystic — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:20:26 MST

Its not saying how many points have been acquired all together, but how many individual achievements themselves have been unlocked. Why is everyone bringing in the amount of points per average anyway?

NightMystic

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elranchero69 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:20:14 MST

i have close to 10,000 achievment points on my gamertag!

elranchero69

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ArmyofJuan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:19:12 MST

@JackTretton:

i wish all of your breed and kind would vanish. Because it seems like every other blogpost has someone saying their genius opinion on how they think achievements are stupid as if they effect the game or someones personal enjoyment at all

ArmyofJuan

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kyosen — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:18:25 MST

@JackTretton: Yeah, but frogger proved people love a high score.

kyosen

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mahi — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:13:24 MST

"360 users have spent over $250 million on DLC and movies since the console's launch"

I guess it can help with the RROD funds!

mahi

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JackTretton — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:12:41 MST

so what do you get for doing this ? I think the whole achievments and accomplishment thing is quite stupid.

JackTretton

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Dirty Mongrel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:11:46 MST

Pretty good. Seeing as, depending on how they're presented, numbers can be the strongest argument anyone has in this industry. Well, as far as consoles go.

Dirty Mongrel

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KeroseneClimax — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:11:15 MST

One billion over achievers.

KeroseneClimax

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SAKY — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:09:54 MST

@Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB: couldn't contain myself, hasn't been a ban Moday in a while and it's overdue. :P

SAKY

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NitrousO — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:09:42 MST

@lionkitten: Assuming MS didn't make a mistake with that slide in the picture then yes.

NitrousO

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Old-school Sonic fanboy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:09:32 MST

Big numbers. Yet to get my hands on Rock Band.

I would love to play "Sick Sick Sick".

Old-school Sonic fanboy

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ArmyofJuan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:09:04 MST

i cant get that XNA thing to work. I downloaded it but then it says im not a member or some sort of nonsense. And this is the one just to play the games, not make them. I'll fiddle with it some more though.

But are theres numbers North America related or world wide?

ArmyofJuan

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DMeisterJ — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:07:17 MST

@P.N.03: LOL! It took me a while to get it, but that was hilarious.

DMeisterJ

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lionkitten — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:04:13 MST

3 million Rock Band downloads already is insanity.

So's Halo 3's 100.000 uploads a day. I know I am addicted to saved films and screenshots but that's a huge number.

@Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB: It's 85 achievements per person, not 85 points. Not a billion gamerscore but a billion achievements, right?

lionkitten

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Dr. Steve Brule — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:01:53 MST

@DMeisterJ: Nothing; go back to bed.

Dr. Steve Brule

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Sorwah — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:59:50 MST

Didn't they say that the $250m was just in extra content - it didn't include the video marketplace.

Sorwah

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tnx3 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:53:31 MST

@Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB: Hmm... I was under the impression that it was 1 billion achievements unlocked, not achievement points, I need to look that up.

tnx3

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tnx3 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:52:00 MST

I think that Microsoft has a huge chance to cash in on a "YouTube"-like service for their Live games. What's a few more bandwidth bills for a company like that.

tnx3

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Draftbaboon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:51:00 MST

@DMeisterJ: It means people are doing shit and being active.

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Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:49:30 MST

Hmm...let's do a little math.
There are roughly 18 million 360 owners. I remember reading that 66% of all 360 owners are connected to the internet.
So...that's 11 million, 880 thousand.

So, 1 billion achievements divided by 11million, 880 thousand equals....

85 Achievements points for every person on XBL.

@Huxle: @SAKY: Deep. Both of you, real deep.

Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

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Adrock4 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:48:12 MST

Looks like Microsoft's gotten some achievements of their own! Now quick, someone play me a rimshot!

Adrock4

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Deezenuts — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:46:41 MST

Thats nice, no one cares lol. how about fix your broken ass system cause i already bought 2 360's. how about it Microsoft?

Deezenuts

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goldwings — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:45:43 MST

Can thank two of my buddies for that.

goldwings

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Volomon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:43:54 MST

The only thing I think when I see the millions made by DLC is I wonder how many millions worth of content is unusable.

Volomon

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SAKY — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:43:35 MST

I don't recal how many XBOX live users there are but if you figure 5,000,000 users then that's 200 points each. yes? Not much per user really.

SAKY

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DMeisterJ — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:43:01 MST

Yawn... What does this mean to me?

DMeisterJ

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Irenicus-the one and only — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:42:25 MST

@ggodo: That achievement is the achievement of them all :P

that 250million number is fucking crazy, I guess I'm one of those with everything I bought when I had a 360 :( But I'm starting to hate DLC and DD more and more everyday.

And Halo3 videos, wow... Is there really that much material to make of that game? lol I bet 50k of those are someone teabagging someone else :P

Irenicus-the one and only

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Ahsayuni — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:41:51 MST

thats a lot of acheivements.

Ahsayuni

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Coldbrand — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:40:31 MST

And all of them don't matter at all!

Coldbrand

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vr0oM — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:38:48 MST

"people who downloaded it, freaked out and never touched it again"...
Plunkett... are you watching me?!

vr0oM

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ggodo — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:37:40 MST

I want that achievement, and I don't even have an Xbox

ggodo

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canchegundam — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:37:26 MST

I am very tempted to write first but I won't.
It's great to see people investing on Rock Band, since it's the best music game out there.

canchegundam

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SAKY — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:36:47 MST

@Huxle: sdf much?

SAKY

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SAKY — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:36:27 MST

mmmm those were some tasty numbers.

SAKY

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Huxle — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:36:26 MST

Achievement whore much?

Huxle