XFire, Xbox Live, 1 Million EU DS Handhelds

There have been a number of statistic-related announcements in the gaming industry of late. The beginning of the year sees companies trying to start off on the right foot through upbeat marketing. So, with that in mind comes the news that XFire now has 3 Million subscribers, the 1 Millionth DS handheld has sold in Europe, and Microsoft has listed the top 10 Xbox Live Arcade titles. From the Xbox Live article: "Although no exact figures for sales were revealed, the publishing giant has detailed its most popular games on the Arcade service, with Bizarre Creations' Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved leading the pack. The game is an adapted version of the retro styled arcade game that first appeared on the original Xbox, as part of Project Gotham Racing 2. Since the launch of the service in November, Geometry Wars has achieved some 200,000 trial downloads and 45,000 paid downloads, proving exceptionally popular with the online community."

Comments

Europe...

[Xerxus]

I just want to correct the summary... 1 million sold in UK, not Europe.

Europe is bigger than the UK!

1 Million DSs in UK, *3.5* in Europe

[LoveMe2Times]

The summary is messed up. The linked article states that 1 million DSs have been sold in the UK, vs 3.5 million in all of Europe (and 13 million worldwide). And apparently the PSP is much more popular in the UK than the rest of the world, resulting in more-or-less even sales with the DS. If I recall, the DS was outselling the PSP 3 or 4 to 1 in Japan until stores ran out of stock.

Not too bad

[Onuma]

I've been dabbling with IM/Chat/VOIP programs for many years now, and I haven't found too many problems with Xfire. I do like the fact that I don't get alt-tabbed out of my games when a message pops up - having the old Rainbow Six series of games get closed out when you got an IM was pretty damn annoying. I've even used Xfire like a VOIP program to talk to my family back home (I am in the military and currently deployed). It's free, and I can't complain about that either :) Now if only it had an option like TeamSpeak or Ventrilo where you could host a Voice server and connect through it - I probably wouldn't use any other program for gaming voip.