XBox Live Brings 24M Downloads Home

Xbox Live surpassed 24 million downloads during E3 week following the launch of Xbox 360 on November 22, 2005. E3: Bringing It Home, lured 1.5 million Xbox 360 gamers to jump in to Xbox Live with free Gold membership during E3 and a broadband hookup—high-speed DSL and FiOS, the super-fast Fiber Optic connection from Verizon.

Gamers managed to download 5 million pieces of gaming and entertainment that amounted to 600 Terabytes of data.

“The sheer volume of downloads during E3 week was simply staggering. To put it in perspective, all the printed material in the U.S. Library of Congress is estimated to be about 20 terabytes, and Xbox Live delivered 30 times that amount in just 7 days.” said Peter Moore, corporate vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft.

Top 10 downloads during E3: Bringing It Home are as follows.

1. Halo 3 Game Trailer (Microsoft Game Studios)
2. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Free Playable Demo (Capcom)
3. Test Drive® Unlimited Free Playable Demo (Atari)
4. MotoGPTM ’06 Free Playable Demo (THQ)
5. X-MenTM: The Last Stand Pack (20th Century Fox)
6. Gears of War GameTrailer (Microsoft Game Studios)
7. Call of Duty ®2: Skirmish Map Pack (Activision)
8. SpidermanTM 3 Game Trailer (Activision)
9. Fable 2 Trailer (Microsoft Game Studios)
10. Uno® Xbox Live Arcade Game (Microsoft Game Studios)

Xbox Live surpassed 24 million downloads during E3 week following the launch of Xbox 360 on November 22, 2005. E3: Bringing It Home, lured 1.5 million Xbox 360 gamers to jump in to Xbox Live with free Gold membership during E3 and a broadband hookup—high-speed DSL and FiOS, the super-fast Fiber Optic connection from Verizon.

Gamers managed to download 5 million pieces of gaming and entertainment that amounted to 600 Terabytes of data.

“The sheer volume of downloads during E3 week was simply staggering. To put it in perspective, all the printed material in the U.S. Library of Congress is estimated to be about 20 terabytes, and Xbox Live delivered 30 times that amount in just 7 days.” said Peter Moore, corporate vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft.

Top 10 downloads during E3: Bringing It Home are as follows.

1. Halo 3 Game Trailer (Microsoft Game Studios)
2. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Free Playable Demo (Capcom)
3. Test Drive® Unlimited Free Playable Demo (Atari)
4. MotoGPTM ’06 Free Playable Demo (THQ)
5. X-MenTM: The Last Stand Pack (20th Century Fox)
6. Gears of War GameTrailer (Microsoft Game Studios)
7. Call of Duty ®2: Skirmish Map Pack (Activision)
8. SpidermanTM 3 Game Trailer (Activision)
9. Fable 2 Trailer (Microsoft Game Studios)
10. Uno® Xbox Live Arcade Game (Microsoft Game Studios)