Xbox Live has hit 35 million users globally, Xbox Live marketing manager Robin Burrowes has confirmed.
Five million of those users jumped on board since last January, he said, adding that this rapid grows is in part thanks to the launching of Xbox Live in nine new countries in late 2010.
Burrores wouldn't be pushed into breaking down that number between Gold subscribers and free accounts, but he did say that MS earns "more revenue from the transaction space (XBLA, Avatars and other digital sales) than the subscription space."
Xbox Live has suffered a spat of issues recently, with a US user suing the firm for allegedly double billing for the service, and a recent glitch causing 1000s of points to be handed out for free.
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KK-Headcharge78 on 18 Aug '11 said:
But none in Japan, oooooh MS I'd really be worried.
gmcb007 on 18 Aug '11 said:
Yeah Xbox is a massive fail now that it's being pulled from Japan! It doesn't have any exclusives whatsoever because exclusives mean everything!!!
voodoo341 on 18 Aug '11 said:
So they can collect 70 million subscriptions a year.....
bawrash on 18 Aug '11 said:
A million of them were probably created to get achievements like in portal. How about telling us how many gold members cause thats the true number of subscribers.
Sammy_bham on 18 Aug '11 said:
"users" being the KEY word.
CJG on 18 Aug '11 said:
It was 30 million a couple OXM's ago. I would bet more than a few of those new users converted after PSN got hacked.
Toasted_PSP on 19 Aug '11 said:
Microsoft always seem very cagey about Gold subscriber numbers for some reason, the last time they gave us anything even close to a figure about Gold subscribers was when they announced they had hit 25million subscribers to LIVE and then mentioned that nearly half of those were Gold subscribers.
c3dpo on 19 Aug '11 said:
^^
More than PSN+ mate
Toasted_PSP on 19 Aug '11 said:
PS+ is s**t so that doesn't surprise me, although I am not sure why PSN is even relevant here.