2 Million Xbox Live Users And Counting

Gamasutra is reporting that Xbox Live has reached the milestone of 2 Million subscribers, essentially a doubling of the service's membership in the last year. From the article: "Microsoft took the opportunity to re-iterate that Xbox Live is a universal service between both the original Xbox and the forthcoming Xbox 360, due to debut this November. Thus, gamers can move their Xbox Live memberships seamlessly from Xbox to Xbox 360, giving Microsoft an initial subscriber advantage if either Sony or Nintendo plan a more complete online service for their next-generation consoles. "

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great, but...

[almeitus]

that number would be significantly reduced if they banned all the cheaters and a-holes you seem to run into on a regular basis....

Re:Regardless Of Your View Of Microsoft

[fondue]

1. Considering the system has been running for over 2 and a half years, it's a pretty pathetic total.
2. It's not clear whether it includes trial subscriptions.
3. It represents less than one tenth of the Xbox user base, hardly the lynchpin of the system that MS hyped it to be.
4. More people worldwide play online games on PS2, even though you have to buy additional peripherals and there are only a scant number of online games available.

In the coming console generation, ALL the competing formats (including the PSP and DS) offer online gaming without subscription fees. Yet the Xbox 360 clings to this broken model.

It's time for MS to re-evaluate whether they want Xbox to offer a worthwhile, competitive platform for consumers and developers, or just keep blindly pursuing this 'content delivery' pipedream while Sony keep kicking their arses.