Thu, Jan 07, 2010 | 10:24 GMT
CES: 20 million people now using Live, says Bach
Over 20 million people are now using Xbox Live worldwide, Microsoft confirmed at its CES keynote last night.
The news came from the company’s head of Entertainment & Devices division, Robbie Bach.
“Today, over 20 million people are Xbox Live members,” he said.
“To put this in context and perspective, that’s nearly three times the number of people who watch Oprah.”
Earlier in the keynote, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer said that over 39 million Xbox 360s had been sold worldwide since the machine’s launch back in winter 2005.
10 comments
#1
mescalineeyes
07/01/10, 10:37 am
the other 19 million are banned
#2
Blerk
07/01/10, 10:48 am
I’d love to know how many of those are ‘Gold’.
#3
ShakaCarnage
07/01/10, 10:54 am
I’d feel pretty confident that it’s around 60%.
#4
Blerk
07/01/10, 11:01 am
Whereas I’d be frankly amazed if it was actually that high.
#5
Psychotext
07/01/10, 11:29 am
All we know is that it’s “the majority”.
#6
Blerk
07/01/10, 11:38 am
50.1%, then.
#7
ShakaCarnage
07/01/10, 12:45 pm
Well, I actually know what their targets were in 2005 – and speaking to someone at Xbox last year, without revealing who it was, they’d beaten those targets. They didn’t mention figures, but Blerks wronge, whatever he says
#8
ShakaCarnage
07/01/10, 12:46 pm
I can’t spell today, either.
#9
Psychotext
07/01/10, 12:50 pm
“Blerks wrong, whatever he says”
He gets that a lot.
#10
Blerk
07/01/10, 1:14 pm
Oi!