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Over 50-Million Marketplace downloads served
The Xbox PR team just realesaed some interesting data that I think some of you may find interesting. Check these numbers out!

The Xbox Live Marketplace just passed 50 million downloads. That is double the 25 million mark from just three months ago.
In the first week of Madden ' 07 releasing, Xbox Live members unlocked over 600,000 achivements and hosted more then 2-million hours of Madden gameplay.
' Texas Hold ' em' set a one day record as the fastest download item ever on the Marketplace. There were over 100 downloads a minute in the first 24-hours of release.
Other Xbox Live statistics:

More than 50 million downloads of gaming and entertainment content from Xbox Live Marketplace to date
Over 2 billion hours spent on Xbox Live by gamers across the globe since the launch of the Xbox Live online gaming network in November 2002
More than 60 percent of Xbox 360 owners are connected to Xbox Live
1,300,000 text and voice messages are sent via Xbox Live every day. Currently totaling half a billion sent messages between the Xbox Live community per year, this figure is set to explode with the launch of the Xbox Live Vision camera on September 19, 2006 in the U.S.
65 per cent of all connected consoles already downloading and playing Xbox Live Arcade titles
Over 8 million downloads of Xbox Live Arcade games following the launch of Xbox 360
Over 2 billion Microsoft Points sold to date

Holy crap!

How much would 2billion microsoft points transferr into real world money?.

I think (US at least) it' s about $1.25 for 100 points. (2bil/100)x1.25=$25,000,000?

ORIGINAL: Mass X

I think (US at least) it' s about $1.25 for 100 points.

Which weirdly enough (unless i' m mistaken) transferrs pound to dollar so they must have made quite some pounds.

There we go i did the quick math in my last post...but I wouldnt trust my math...

2,00000 + 2,00000 = 5,00000??

Damn It!

This was much easier with simple numbers...

Well whatever their revenue is for online play I don' t think it' s too dismal. Now I really wanna see what nintendo and sony come up with mainly sony.

um... wow. That really puts into perspective the size of the gaming industry doesn' t it? And Microsoft' s just a small part of the market, Imagine the totals when Nintendo and Sony join the fray.

1600 points/20$=80
80=1$
2 000 000 000/80=25 000 000

Masses math is correct, but this is assuming that this is all in American dollars, which is actually where MS points are at the cheapest price. So MS generated more revenue then 25 million. This may seem like a lot but keep in mind that MS is only getting a percentage of this where the people putting the content out is making more. MS is probably making more through the actual subscription fee for Xbox Live.