Xbox Live Hits 24 Million Downloads

Thanks to the 'E3 at Home' initiative, Xbox Live has served up 24 million pieces of content, and connected 1.5 million gamers. From the article: "Over 600 terabytes of data were transferred over the network during the week, a figure which represents 30 times more data than is found in all the printed material in the US Library of Congress, according to Microsoft games boss Peter Moore, who thankfully did not go on to provide the standard British comparison of telling us how many double decker buses it equates to."

Question

How much of that was game content, and how much were system "upgrades" out to find and punish those nasty, evil, wicked console modders?

measurments

It may be 30x more then the LOC, but how many VW Bugs would it take if they were full of backup tapes?

Downloadin' Not Gamin'

That's 600 terabytes of sitting, waiting for downloads to complete instead of using the system. That dashboard upgrade better show up pretty soon.

MS Doing Something Right?

Microsoft have really impressed me with XBox Live and have used it to really deliver on the 360, so much so that, even as a die hard Nintendo Whore I'm picking up a 360 next week (Oblivion swung me over the edge).

I'll still be getting a Wii, but I think that (and a lot of gamers seem to agree) the difference in titles and experience make two consoles justifiable this time round (first time ever for me).

MS have made a lot of smart moves and deserve to keep a number two position this time round; just behind Nintendo :) Sony are in for a bumpy ride.

What ...

24 million? What an odd number to be celebrating.

Conversion

Aha! So, we finally have a figure for the elusive LoC unit. It turns out 1 LoC = 20 terabytes. Now, if only Google would add this to its unit conversion feature.

LoC

Everyone knows 1 Library of Congress is a standard unit of measurment

P2P savings

Imagine the savings from a P2P network for that.

Another Comparison

I wonder how this compares to the amount of data that is transferred via the trackers that a site like empornium or pirate bay indexes? That would be a comparison figure I'd like to see.

Ooooh...

I can't wait for the 25 million announcement!

Silver or Gold?

Sorry, but how many of them are Gold subscribers? And did they just download the free stuff, or did they actually buy?
The original Xbox had something like a 10% Live subscription rate, it would be nice to know how many 360 gamers are converting their Silver subscription into Gold...

Comparison

So how many of the target audience have actually seen the extent of printed material in the LoC to actually say "Wow!! THAT much??"

It could be more...

I bet they'd have 40 million downloads if the user interface was easier to use. Sitting there waiting for a slow download of a 100Mb file is discouraging. It's hard for them to keep be on the download screen. I'd rather quit of the download and do something. That's why I'm using my 360 anyway...to be entertained - not to watch a slow progress bar.

Re:It could be more...

This is apparently being adressed, so hopefully we'll see this being sorted soon. I downloaded the Tomb Raider Legends demo recently, and while I'm happy you can do this finally, I had go do something else for the hour it took to download (on a 4MB connection no less - the download service is obviously capped).

Comparing Apples To Libraries

"Over 600 terabytes of data were transferred over the network during the week, a figure which represents 30 times more data than is found in all the printed material in the US Library of Congress, according to Microsoft games boss Peter Moore, who thankfully did not go on to provide the standard British comparison of telling us how many double decker buses it equates to."

Ignoring that the library of congress figure considers text strings only with no consideration of the detail stored in images printed at however many hundred dpi whereas Microsoft Live's downloads contain 600 terabytes of image and video files plus the word "l33t"

Compared on like terms, either:

Microsoft have offered 600 terabytes of data in all forms whereas the library of congress contains billions of times that once you consider the information needed to describe the images in the books, the paper used, the binding, font choices, fading of inks, etc.

or

The library of congress has around 20 terabytes worth of laregely uniquely ordererd text strings whereas Microsoft have downloaded the same four bytes that reconstruct to "l33t" a few million times.

Microsoft's spokesperson then went on to compare the Microsoft XBox 360 to having several hundred times the power of a Ferrari which he points out only has a few relatively simple processors in it.

Can we please no longer do this

Typical Slashdot response ( bear in mind I love slashdot but god there are a lot of cynics ): You mean M$ sending patches for a POS system running a POS OS, I hope M$ fails. They produce nothing but garbage, forget things that they actually create instead of talking about, forget that they brought the everyday pc to the everyday person. Instead M$ is all that is evil and everything they make is awful. I just bought a 360 and wasn't a big fan of the original, I think the 360 is a very cool console, and LIVE is truly an amazing service. So can someone explain why most of the responses to posts on /. are everything sucks, linux rules, M$ is the devil? -P

Aaaaw bless. Not as much as Firefox downloads

Which hit 50 million ages ago in 2005. Don't try and impress us with security update download information. Hype up the xbox360 y'all!

If you bought one, lol for you then. I am going to be burning up your CPU with my cell.

'nuff said

yea

I assumed this!

Re:Microsoft's using standards?

But how many Libraries of Congress per second did the data travel at?