XBox Live Reaches a Milestone with the 360

Microsoft has announced a huge milestone for it’s XBox Live service. In a post on their gamerscoreblog.com site, the software company states that they’ve reached 6 million users on XBL, a number they didn’t expect to reach until June of this year.

Here’s some more stats they’ve released about the XBox 360 :

• More than 10 million Xbox 360s have hit store shelves since launch in November 2005, and more than 160 high definition games are now available, including Viva Piñata, Gears of War and Crackdown.
  Xbox 360 is available in 37 countries.
• More than 6 million people are members of Xbox LIVE.
• 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.
• The 18-34 male audience on XBL is comparable in size to the same audience tuning in to see the most popular network TV shows like CSI or The Office.
• 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.
• Top WW Xbox LIVE Titles on Xbox 360 to date:
            
  1. Halo 2
  2. Gears of War
  3. Hexic HD
  4. Call of Duty 2
  5. Ghost Recon 3
  6. Call Of Duty 3
  7. Oblivion
  8. PGR3
  9. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Vegas
  10. Perfect Dark Zero
  (Based on the number of unique users)