You ever get the feeling you spend too much time playing video games? Today Microsoft has announced that 17 billion hours have now been spent by users on Xbox Live, representing nearly three hours for each person on Earth.
For a long time McDonalds touted the line “Over one billion served” Xbox Live social media lead Trixie360 revealed the usage statistics on Twitter, including that Xbox Live Marketplace has racked up 1.2 billion downloads since its launch in 2002.
“In seven years, Xbox Live members have spent more than 17 billion hours on Xbox Live. That’s more than two hours for every person on the planet!” she wrote.
“There have been more than 1.2 billion downloads of gaming and entertainment content from Xbox Live Marketplace. About 100 per second!”
According to gaming blog G4, 17 billion hours represents almost two million years or 850 hours for each of the current 20 million Xbox Live subscribers.
It is no surprise, even though some people thought that online gaming was not the wave of the future these numbers show how wrong they were. Online play done right is what people want with original games, demos and classic arcade games not to mention Netflix and downloadable content. It won’t be long before you see that number hit the big T.
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