Gamers to Microsoft: “We want our 2 BILLION Xbox Live hours back!”

Xbox 360 Video Game System (Fully-Loaded)Nah, just kidding of course 😉 It’s fun to read, those Xbox Live online numbers Xbox team member Major Nelson just released.

* The Xbox Live Marketplace just passed 50 million gaming and entertainment content downloads. That is double the 25 million mark from just three months ago.
* In the first week of Madden NFL 07 releasing, Xbox Live members unlocked over 600,000 achivements and hosted more then 2-million hours of Madden gameplay.
* Texas Hold ‘Em set a one day record as the fastest download item ever on the Marketplace. There were over 100 downloads a minute in the first 24-hours of release, that’s 144,000 free downloads that first day alone.

Other Xbox Live statistics:
* Over 2 billion hours spent on Xbox Live by gamers across the globe since the launch of the Xbox Live online gaming network in November 2002.
* More than 60% of Xbox 360 owners are connected to Xbox Live.
* 1,300,000 text and voice messages are sent via Xbox Live every day. Currently totaling half a billion sent messages between the Xbox Live community per year, this figure is set to explode with the launch of the Xbox Live Vision camera on September 19, 2006 in the U.S.
* 65% of all connected consoles already downloading and playing Xbox Live Arcade titles, that’s 39% of all Xbox 360’s on- or offline.
* Over 8 million downloads of Xbox Live Arcade games following the launch of Xbox 360.
* Over 2 billion Microsoft Points sold to date, that’s $25 million spent.