Jan 9th, 2007 by R. Anderson
Xbox 360 Xbox Live Microsoft Statistics XBL Arcade

Peter MoorePeter Moore, head of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division, has been keeping busy at CES and has sent out some emails to the press.

And what else could it be but some nice stats to once again show off Xbox 360's success thus far:

    * Over 10.4 million Xbox 360 consoles sold in more than 37 countries.
    * On track for 13-15 million units shipped by the end of FY07.
    * Record-breaking attach rate of 5.3 games sold per console.
    * Gears of War sold more than 2.7 million copies after only 8 weeks on the    market.
    * Xbox Live community has 5 million members, over half of all consoles connected.
    * Goal: 6 million Xbox Live members by June 2007.
    * The average Xbox Live Gold subscriber has more than 21 friends.
    * 2 million messages (text/voice/picture) sent across Xbox Live every day.
    * Over 100 million pieces of standard and HD content downloaded from Marketplace.
    * Over 70% of Xbox Live members are downloading content from Xbox Live Marketplace.
    * Xbox Live Arcade: more than 20 million games downloaded to date.

Microsoft does indeed have a very strong head start. Sony, please catch up fast and make the race interesting.