Microsoft: Xbox Live gains a new user every two seconds

lol..bunch of lies.
if xbox live gains new user every 2 seconds, that means they sell xbox 360 every 1 second or mill second:/

@#1

A new xbox-live user every 2 seconds means:

30 new xbox-live users every minute.
1’800 new xbox-live users per hour.
43’200 new xbox-live users per day.
15’768’000 xbox-live new users per year.

Not too far away from YOY hardware sales.
(which also include 360′s not hooked up the interwebs)
Non the less, a bit exaggerated though.

Smell That……………..That is What you Call Bull$hit

@2 remember the actual figure might be something like a 2.25 seconds that MS reasonably rounded down to the nearest whole number. That .25 is seven figures when annualised, so would account for the mismatch with the actual sales figures.

@4 The maths do actually add up.

Xbox Live accounts aren’t necessarily going to be around the same as hardware sales, as multiple accounts can be made on one console. This doesn’t even take into consideration the second-hand console sales.

Also, a new user every 2 seconds is linear growth, not exponential growth.

This story is really not telling us much.

@7, that’s averaged over a period of time though, they’ve taken the amount of time the service has been up and divided my the number of accounts. If you were to plot the graph of new accounts per day or month it may resemble a rough exponential curve (it’s never going to be smooth since sales will always rise and fall with holidays and price drops etc). I don’t know because I’m not going to put the time into working it out.

@5 Er, where did I say it didn’t? What I was saying was how very tiny changes in the quoted figure would mean big differences in the annualised figure, which would explain why the annualised figure doesn’t exactly match number of consoles sold (almost certainly the figure isn’t exactly 2 seconds).