Xbox Live Adds a New Account Every Two Seconds, Says Microsoft
Published: January 01, 0001
Reading Time: Approx. 8 mins
Every two seconds on Xbox Live, someone adds a Gamertag like xX_tehPwnz0rz69_Xx, according to the service’s chief of marketing. Addressing the London Games Conference, Xbox Live’s Robin Burrowes said that Call of Duty and Kinect have shot up enrollment to 35 million at [[link]] the end of 2010, adding another 15 million today, reports Develop(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Contrast this with the 50,000 users who signed up at Xbox Live’s launch on the original console, back in 2002. Burrowes believes in the next five years all entertainment will be interactive in some form, with Xbox Live serving it, of course.
How far back do you go? I signed [[link]] up for Xbox Live in 2004, about six months after I bought 
the console. Any original adopters 
reading this 
right now? New Xbox Live user every two [[link]] seconds [Develop] You can contact Owen Good, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.