Xbox Live Hits 24 Million Downloads 68
Thanks to the 'E3 at Home' initiative, Xbox Live has served up 24 million pieces of content, and connected 1.5 million gamers. From the article: "Over 600 terabytes of data were transferred over the network during the week, a figure which represents 30 times more data than is found in all the printed material in the US Library of Congress, according to Microsoft games boss Peter Moore, who thankfully did not go on to provide the standard British comparison of telling us how many double decker buses it equates to."
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Of course the people who used mods to cheat at Halo are probably great for MS PR, as Halo players can equate "mod" with "stinking cheater". It's partly Bungie's fault anyway, data on the Xbox HD was insecure for ages before
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Whenever you tell someone that you've got a modded box on Live, you have to follow it up with "But I'm not a modder"
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Modding a game in order to cheat at online play is a whole other ball of wax, and as someone who once tried to get into "Diablo" I'm with you 100% on how much that needs punishing.
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Looking at those stats, it seems I had one last binge [bungie.net] of Team Snipers before I left. A nice way to say goodbye.
I'd noticed that noone on there had heard of Slashdot too. It was a weird little group of people. Lots of Microsoft fanboys in there, though a lot of
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Getting a load of downloads of free content like demos and trailers is nice, but I wonder how this compares to stuff like avatars and themes that they want people to pay for. Is their micr
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Even Major Nelson was telling people not to buy it- that it was a ripoff. I'm not an Oblivion fan, but if I were, I am sure that I would have downloaded the armor. The reason I would have downloaded it is that the system makes it so damn easy to buy stuff, that people think, "Yeah, sure, why not?"
I think the micropayment thing is going well. I've spent (pissed away) about $100 on different things like XB
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BOOBIES!
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measurments (Score:2)
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If you would have been reading all the latest quantity meassurement journals, you would have known that recently it has been discovered that if you mate 3 VW Bugs, you will end up with precisely one wagon.
The conversion for 2 VW Bugs into a wagon is QED, and I will leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Downloadin' Not Gamin' (Score:1)
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MS Doing Something Right? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'll still be getting a Wii, but I think that (and a lot of gamers seem to agree) the difference in titles and experience make two consoles justifiable this time round (first time ever for me).
MS have made a lot of smart moves and deserve to keep a number two position this time round; just behind Nintendo
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Move along, oh, and if you believe in what you're saying, don't post AC.
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I'm actually not sure about the PS3. Xbox is here now and it works great. Sure we all want more software, but the 30 or so titles they have out is enough for a start.
I'm curious how the PS3 looks. I have a 1080i Sony and the xbox rocks.
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Actually, it's an even number. 25 million, though...that would be an odd number[1].
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Anyone else remember the Sesame Street '12345678910' hyper counting thing?
[1] Just checking to see who's awake
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I'm awake... I'd settle for 24,000,001 for an odd number, but not 25,000,000 ;)
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25 milion is still even.
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LoC (Score:4, Funny)
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Funky cold sig
P2P savings (Score:3, Insightful)
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Doesn't Blizzard's WoW patching model work similar to this (shares until you hit complete and start the patch process)?
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Ooooh... (Score:2)
Silver or Gold? (Score:1, Insightful)
The original Xbox had something like a 10% Live subscription rate, it would be nice to know how many 360 gamers are converting their Silver subscription into Gold...
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Comparing Apples To Libraries (Score:3, Insightful)
Ignoring that the library of congress figure considers text strings only with no consideration of the detail stored in images printed at however many hundred dpi whereas Microsoft Live's downloads contain 600 terabytes of image and video files plus the word "l33t"
Compared on like terms, either:
Microsoft have offered 600 terabytes of data in all forms whereas the library of congress contains billions of times that once you consider the information needed to describe the images in the books, the paper used, the binding, font choices, fading of inks, etc.
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The library of congress has around 20 terabytes worth of laregely uniquely ordererd text strings whereas Microsoft have downloaded the same four bytes that reconstruct to "l33t" a few million times.
Microsoft's spokesperson then went on to compare the Microsoft XBox 360 to having several hundred times the power of a Ferrari which he points out only has a few relatively simple processors in it.
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He's comparing "stored data" to "retreived data". That's a bit of a meaningless comparison.
Can we please no longer do this (Score:1)
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Aaaaw bless. Not as much as Firefox downloads (Score:1)
If you bought one, lol for you then. I am going to be burning up your CPU with my cell.
'nuff said
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