Xbox Live has surpassed 24 million downloads following the launch of Xbox 360.
For the week of E3, Xbox 360 gamers around the world were invited to jump in to Xbox Live through E3: Bringing it Home, and receive a week’s Gold membership free.
More than 1.5 million gamers connected to Xbox Live last week, downloading content direct from the show floor, including the latest high-definition game demos and trailers, such as Halo 3, Gears of War and Fable 2; movie trailers and music videos, along with celebrity Game With Fame multiplayer sessions with Dave Navarro, Method Man and Jenny McCarthy.
Xbox Live members downloaded more than five million pieces of gaming and entertainment content during the seven days of E3: Bringing it Home, consuming more than 600 terabytes of data, shattering all previous records for the network. At the same time, traffic on Xbox.com doubled during the week, driving more than six million unique users to the site.
“The sheer volume of downloads during E3 week was simply staggering. To put it in perspective, all the printed material in the US Library of Congress is estimated to be about 20 terabytes, and Xbox Live delivered 30 times that amount in just seven days," says Peter Moore, corporate vice president of Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft.
The Halo 3 ad proved to be the most popular download of the week:
Top 10 downloads during E3: Bringing it Home:
1. Halo 3 Game Trailer (Microsoft Games Studios)
2. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Free Playable Demo (Capcom)
3. Test Drive Unlimited Free Playable Demo (Atari)
4. MotoGP '06 Free Playable Demo (THQ)
5. X-Men: The Last Stand Picture and Theme Packs (20th Century Fox)
6. Gears of War Game Trailer (Microsoft Games Studios)
7. Call of Duty 2: Skirmish Map Pack (Activision)
8. Spiderman 3 Game Trailer (Activision)
9. Fable 2 Trailer (Microsoft Games Studios)
10. Uno Xbox Live Arcade Game (Microsoft Games Studios)
