It seems impossible, right? Well, this Xbox Live thing is apparently pretty popular. Trixie revealed via her Twitter account that in the seven years since the service launched on the original Xbox, gamers have racked up 17 billion hours on Xbox Live, equal to 2 hours of play time for every person on the planet. And with 20 million subscribers on the service, you're looking at an average of 850 hours for every member.
Another one of her Tweets states that there have been "more than 1.2 billion downloads of gaming and entertainment content," which averages out to about 100 downloads per second. And according to our completely scientific analysis of these figures, we conclude around 750 million of those 1.2 billion-plus downloads were free gamer pics and themes, Rambo stuff specifically.
[Via G4]
Reader Comments (15)
Posted: Jan 21st 2010 2:10PM armageddon said
With Halo and a staple of other great Live enabled games it no surprise.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2010 2:41PM slimshady said
If I am not mistkaen that would be almost 2 million years totally spend on XBL!
17b /24h / 365,25d = 1,939,310 years, 11 months, 20 days and 17 hours
OR: 1.939310 MILLION YEARS!!
In comparison: Halo 3 matchmaking (game time only) had about 64,000 years in March of 2009.
kinda impressive how much time people can waste on video games if they unite ;)
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17b /24h / 365,25d = 1,939,310 years, 11 months, 20 days and 17 hours
OR: 1.939310 MILLION YEARS!!
In comparison: Halo 3 matchmaking (game time only) had about 64,000 years in March of 2009.
kinda impressive how much time people can waste on video games if they unite ;)
Posted: Jan 21st 2010 2:42PM (Unverified) said
I wonder what could have been built with all those man hours?
Im thinking full size replicas of all the halo maps complete with golf buggies, paintball guns and teleportation devices.
Now that would be a game!
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Im thinking full size replicas of all the halo maps complete with golf buggies, paintball guns and teleportation devices.
Now that would be a game!
Posted: Jan 21st 2010 2:44PM (Unverified) said
Actually looking at the previous calculations (which i couldnt be bothered to do) it seems we could set our sights a bit higher!
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Posted: Jan 21st 2010 3:50PM (Unverified) said
i am pretty sure that with 2 million years of time we could have made all of earth into a fucking space ship
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Posted: Jan 21st 2010 11:54PM (Unverified) said
What a pointless statistic. It's like those adverts that tell me how long I will spend in my life sitting on the can, or finding my keys. How exactly is this info meant to help me?
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2010 1:58AM (Unverified) said
Leave your keys in the toilet and that number will go down.
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Posted: Mar 21st 2010 1:28PM (Unverified) said
Is there anywhere that will tell you how many hours your Xbox live account has accumulated?
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