Xbox Live Hits 12 Million Members

http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/05/14/xbox-360-first-to-reach-10m-in-the-u-s-19m-world-wide.aspx#comments

This may be old news but it is not why I am posting it, well not entirely.

I just wanted to pick it apart a little, for starters at least 4 of those are me 5 if you count the joke account I made to make fun of a friend so the real number would be 11,999,996. Now it is safe to assume that by now most of us have created alt account to download things from Japan and EU or US depending on where you live, so let's knock that down by....I will be generous and say a third 7,999,996. Now how many do you think are actually actively used lets chop off another million 6,999,996.
Not done yet 'cos it doesn't really count as a full fledged Live account unless it is a gold account so off goes another 2 million or so and that is low balling.

So to my esitmate there is only about 4,999,996 active and gold Live members.

Just to re-enforce this, how many accounts do you have gold and/or silver, active /inactive.

how many people own xboxes in total?blingbling4

10mil US 19mil worldwide according to Microsoft.

That is 360's ONLY and Microsoft would be counting first gen Xbox Live accounts in there too. So it would be 360+1st gen Xbox = Live total numbers

And if that is the case you could knock the numbers down another 100,000 maybe for active 1st Gen Xbox players if you only wanted to count 360 Gold. Again that would be low balling, I bet there is way more active Xbox accounts than that, you know......the people who can't give up Halo 2.

Id say 12 million is about accurate. I have 2 live accounts but ones silver one is gold. And id say anyone with xbox live gold probably uses it cause its a waste of $80 not too :P\

add me if your on xbl: JR604

Id say 12 million is about accurate. I have 2 live accounts but ones silver one is gold. And id say anyone with xbox live gold probably uses it cause its a waste of $80 not too :P\

add me if your on xbl: JR604

sergeantscul

Thing is, you just said it yourself, you have 2 accounts. Now most people on Live I know have even more than that! So imagine it evened out to 2 accounts per person that would mean you could cut that number in half and that isn't even starting on Silver and free trail gold accounts. I mean how many people do you think made a trial gold account when Halo 3 came out? You would be surprised just how many junk accounts are out there.

I don't suppose we will ever get a way to check how many accounts are ever actually active, for any system.

In preparation for testing new games on networks I've helped setting up numbered accounts, usually 32 or 64 accounts at a time, specific for the game we are looking at. Once the game is fully released these accounts will be used for a few more months to check things, and after that never used again, and the login details forgotten.

The count is probably just the number of gamertags that have been made, regardless of whether they have ever been linked with a console, or even banned.

Wow....12 million members....

There are only like over a billion people on the planet and to think that approx 1.2% of the entire planet has tried Xbox Live....

M$ should be very happy with 1.2% :D

Wow....12 million members....

There are only like over a billion people on the planet and to think that approx 1.2% of the entire planet has tried Xbox Live....

M$ should be very happy with 1.2% :D

ParadiseAwaits

over a billion? Theres over 6 and a half billion....nice try though.

Wow....12 million members....

There are only like over a billion people on the planet and to think that approx 1.2% of the entire planet has tried Xbox Live....

M$ should be very happy with 1.2% :D

ParadiseAwaits

There is more than a billion people in the world!