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Microsoft: XBLA is EPIC - just look at these numbers

Videogaming firms aren’t the most modest bunch. Whenever there’s a hint of success, you can be rest assured that they’ll chirp up with a press release or a soundbyte to let the whole world know about it - just like Microsoft did today, to blow its trumpet about the success of XBLA. Be amazed by numbers after the jump.

  • 1.25 billion Gamerscore unlocked to date.
  • 100 million achievements earned to date.
  • 60+ XBLA titles score 75 or higher on Metacritic.
  • Braid is the highest rated XBLA game of all time.
  • To date, 110 million trial XBLA games have been downloaded.
  • The Summer of Arcade saw a 58% increase in unique members buying game titles.
  • August 2008 broke revenue record by 67%.

“Momentum for Xbox LIVE Arcade has been incredible this year,” director of digitally distributed games for Microsoft Scott Austin, squealed. “Xbox LIVE Arcade has really become the top destination for premium downloadable games. And we’ve got a long list of games coming out in 2009 that we think will be just as incredible as what we already have on the service.”

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How many of those 100 million achievements are yours? Do some of your own showing off in the comments section below.

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37 comments on 'Microsoft: XBLA is EPIC - just look at these numbers'

Comment by Savutano on 2008-12-22 22:21:14

I’ve almost broke the 20,000 mark and I’m pretty happy about it.

Comment by Villians on 2008-12-22 22:46:09

Im about to break 30,000 and fuck yeah go microsoft, i live to play my 360 all day and everyday

Comment by H34RT 4TT4CK on 2008-12-22 22:59:32

Okay not a 360 hater or anything but when people say “i live to play my 360 all day and everyday” and there is no ‘apparent’ sarcasm, I have to say this;

Go breathe some fresh air not circulated to your mom’s basement and meet a female whose first name basis you know her on isn’t summerprincssXoXo or whatever.

That being said, WHoo microsoft! Except for the other numbers, achievement numbers don’t mean anything to me really.

Comment by AugustusBot on 2008-12-22 23:34:43

I love you. I love all assholes (people, not things).

BUT. Having just got out of a relationship… and being 27 w/ 4/5s of my college buddies having moved… I play a lot of games each day.

How come if a guy gets off work, and reads books nonstop. every day. for months… noone cares. he’s a scholar.

But if a dude gets off work and goes home to kill shit in Gears 2. nonstop. every day. for months… he’s a fucking child who needs to get a life?

Again. i love you. Asshole.

Comment by H34RT 4TT4CK on 2008-12-23 01:56:41

Hey, I always preach moderation in things. Yeah reading is good, and playing games is fun, especially after work to blow off some steam or just get in some kills for fun, but if you breath, shit, sleep, eat and play games (or any other activity/vice/perk), there’s something wrong.

Yeah I play games, but I get bored. My girlfriend is more fun and a lot more engaging on a whole new level than games *wink* but then if I saw my gf like 12 hours everyday for a week or two I think I’d get pretty tired of her quick. Same with gaming, the most I can play at a time is an hour or two, tops, unless it’s a game I’ve been waiting to play and it draws me in, then 3 hours, but 4 would be pushing it.

Moderation is a healthy lifestyle.

Comment by fagtits on 2008-12-24 02:23:01

fagtits

Comment by ModerationIsKey on 2008-12-24 09:18:59

Surely “Hey, I always preach……” just about sums up the problem? If he wants to play games 24 hours a day the why the hell should we care? Off topic comment for off topic comments sake is why this site is in the state it is! I’m amazed this thread hasn’t turned into a Halo/COD 360/PS3 is better thread yet like every other one does.

Nobody got anywhere by doing stuff in moderation! Although if moderation is healthy you could perhaps apply it to commenting on others lifestyles?

Oh dear, I am grumpy this morning - must be Christmas!

Comment by mass9 on 2008-12-24 18:53:18

so how about this then?

Everything in moderation, INCLUDING moderation. If someguy wants to play for 34000 hours, who am I to say squat to him? A waste of time? perhaps, but I don’t think that its my (or your) place to judge.

Comment by H34RT 4TT4CK on 2008-12-24 23:14:29

Yeah I guess you guys got a point… I’m just saying, seriously, don’t you think living and breathing video games is.. well, ah fuck it.

Comment by AugustusBot on 2008-12-22 23:32:17

XBOXIC should post a stats article on how many days it’s been since they’ve posted Playstation news, especially the shit I submitted regarding HOME OPEN BETA! (homes gay. I play my 360 daily for 8 hours (gears2). HOME IS GAY. But my PS3 is the best system I’ve ever owned)

Comment by H34RT 4TT4CK on 2008-12-23 01:52:22

(Me thinks ABot turned, he just won’t admit it/doesn’t realize it)

Comment by Pedle Zelnip on 2008-12-23 04:10:59

And yet, still 90% of the games being put on XBLA are either crap, or completely overpriced.

Comment by sakki on 2008-12-23 14:14:02

way overpriced. alot of these games i used to throw away, now their getting top dollar for them.

Comment by AN angry H0BO on 2008-12-23 15:35:24

8$-10$ is top dollar? where do you buy your games? the gas station down the road?

Comment by Smitty on 2008-12-23 11:42:15

Trumpets arent the only thing Mircosoft blows!

Comment by The_Glovner on 2008-12-23 11:50:35

Tell us more fag.

Comment by Smitty on 2008-12-23 14:19:16

They also blow my moms cock

Comment by Smitty on 2008-12-25 03:44:00

Ok I will tell you more. You keep calling me a “fag” and then you turn around like the five year old you are and pretend to be me in effort to be funny, yet as always you hit far shy of the mark, because your a talent-less troll who couldn’t keep up with me if he tried. Here’s something else for you to chew on, studies have proven that someone such as yourself who has obvious homophobic tendencies and has to use the word “fag” on a regular basis almost all the time turns out to in-fact be gay themselves, and uses foul sexual epitaphs in order to mask their homosexuality, so for all your calling me a “fag”, your the one who is most likely the fag. I’m sure one of your two dads would agree with me. Secondly I’m pretty sure your from Scotland where guys wear skirts on a regular basis so I’m not really sure your one to be calling anyone a fag. What would your two gay dads think if they heard you talk that way? Now this being Christmas its a time for giving, so why don’t you go give your gay fathers a blow job.

Comment by The_Glovner on 2008-12-25 09:31:45

There we go, showing yourself to be a sterotypical ignorant egotistical cunt.

First off it’s a kilt not a skirt, if you want to actually reduce your ignorance of the rest of the world you can look up the differences and the history. I won’t hold my breath though, since there is no sign of education displayed in anything else you have offered up.

As explained at numerous earlier points, I have and never will post under someone elses name, I am big enough to say what I want and not be at all bothered about what some lame little fuck might think.

Before you use words it might be better to understand what they mean. So you don’t make the same mistake again i’ll just let you know that an “epitaph” is actually an inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there. So once again, you prove yourself to be a thick ignorant fucking tool.

Just because you put a collection of intelligent sounding words together doesn’t make you smart or a wordsmith if you don’t actually know what they mean.

Also just because you deem something to be true (like these “skills” you keeping slavering on about) doesn’t mean it is true if the general consensus thinks otherwise. This also applies to saying the same thing reapeatedly, if you say it fifty times it doesn’t make it true.

Nothing you say has made me laugh and I doubt strongly whether it has had the effect you seem to think for anyone, in fact the only person I would wager that has laughed at anything you have wrote is probably yourself. Don’t you think it’s a little sad to spend your time typing somewhere where nobody likes you, can be bothered with you or finds you funny just so you can laugh at your own ineptitude? If not then keep coming back and we can keep enforcing our opinion of how fucking stupid you are.

And as explained earlier the only reason I reply with “fag”, is because I can’t be bothered with replying in full every time to the shit that you spout, but seeing as it is Christmas, I thought I would give you a complete ripping.

So now I am off to spend the rest of the day with my family and friends. I hope for everyones sake you got your Xbox 360 for Christmas that you were so clearly hoping for, since going by your reasoning you slag it off all the time so you must really want one, and we can all hear less shit from you since you will actually have something to play with now. Instead of just playing with your cock over some unfunny fumbling literary nonsense you got to appear when you slapped the keyboard numerous times with your wrinkled up mangled spastic hands.

Say hi to your dad tonight when he comes to give you your Christmas present, I hear he is planning to creep in when you are asleep and like Santa Claus empty his whole sack for you.

Merry Christmas you fucking dumb little fag.

Comment by Takumi on 2008-12-27 14:55:54

I read that whole thing.
I just thought it deserved a mention that i lost five minutes of my life reading your extremely long comment, lol.

Comment by H34RT 4TT4CK on 2008-12-27 22:03:59

I read it too. It was entertaining.

Comment by mu on 2009-01-08 04:05:56

foul sexual epitaphs! awesome!
props to ignorance.

Comment by Knob on 2008-12-23 14:22:46

that was obvious…

Comment by Fetter on 2008-12-23 14:37:09

I’ll have to check out Braid. It sounds pretty popular.

Comment by jim on 2008-12-23 16:34:45

about to break 50,000

Comment by FF on 2008-12-23 21:29:34

They didn’t get any help from me. I haven’t purchased an arcade game in a really LONG time…like more than a year.

I’ve been tempted once or twice, but I’d rather waste my money elsewhere. And in some cases, I’d rather burn my money than just give it to M$.

They only need ONE copy of a digital game for everyone to download. They aren’t making discs or storing massive quantities in a warehouse somewhere. The notion that they are worth more than $5 each is laughable, IMO, and as long as people keep buying the games at higher prices, the prices will continue to go up.

My collection consists of Uno, Spades and Galaga. I have a couple others that I got for free, but the only free game I play is Texas Hold Em. I didn’t even dl Yaris or the recent Destruction Dash, or whatever it was.

Comment by Chris Chance on 2009-01-02 18:11:22

what the fuck does storing discs have to do with the fact that a creative and wicked game like BRAID is worth more than 5$… let me guess your one of those idiots that thinks that you pay for packaging and really we should all just pay 1$ for everything programmers work and sweat over.

Comment by mu on 2008-12-24 17:55:08

these are their fantastic stats???

gamerscore?
60 games with decent reviews?
one good game!
a ton of trials doled out!

wow! go xbla go!

most of these games can be played for free on a number of platforms.

Comment by mass9 on 2008-12-24 18:26:45

and you can drink water for free out of a puddle, but I’d much rather pay the municiple water company for their services.

Comment by mu on 2009-01-08 04:03:16

you would pay for mud on tap.

Comment by The_Glovner on 2008-12-25 10:37:20

you want to know my secret ,i like to drink spunk

Comment by The_Glovner on 2008-12-26 16:36:19

Wow, the skills are being shown again.

Fag.

Comment by The_Glovner on 2008-12-26 18:30:02

would anybody like a reach around? ,i love to blow your trumpet..toot toot gobble

Comment by Smitty on 2008-12-26 18:37:21

Omfg you really are a fag.

Comment by The_Glovner on 2008-12-26 20:30:10

That the skills on show that we keep hearing about then?

Hypocritical fag.

Comment by tony on 2008-12-28 01:30:23

Sony always wins baby, Sony always wins!

Comment by Scy on 2008-12-29 18:56:01

Well, Sony have certainly won the right to be called
‘The THIRD place’ lol

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