The following press release was provided to us by Microsoft for the fifteenth anniversary of the Xbox brand. It shares gaming statistics and plans.
Fifteen years ago today, the name Xbox became part of popular culture. As the first gaming console produced by Microsoft, the November 15, 2001 release of the Xbox in North America was a major moment for both the company and the entire games industry. The original Xbox console gave rise to beloved game franchises like Halo and Forza Motorsport, and helped usher in the online console gaming era with the release of Xbox Live.
While it would be easy to go on and on about everything we love about Xbox, it’s easier to simply share some data that will help show just how much Xbox has grown in the last 15 years.
• Number of players: 222,468,423
• Number of total gaming hours: 100,539,390,670
• Number of total multiplayer hours: 29,000,304,183
• Number of Achievements unlocked: 32,667,582,157
• Gamerscore racked up: 572,605,554,587
• Highest Gamerscore: 1,416,465
• Number of Xbox Live friendships made: 4,233,891,482
You can read more at Xbox Wire to know about the activities planned for this celebration.
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.