{"id":10637,"date":"2011-03-14T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"microsoft-reveals-some-big-xbox-live-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10637-microsoft-reveals-some-big-xbox-live-numbers","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reveals some big Xbox LIVE numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how everybody says Achievements and Gamerscore don&rsquo;t matter? Yeah, well, the numbers speak for themselves. And the numbers speak for everybody else too. And the numbers say that Achievements and Gamerscore matter. <\/p>\n<p>Luke Plunkett over on <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/#!5780902\/xbox-lives-achievement-numbers-are-slightly-terrifying\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a> managed to turn up the following mad stats about Xbox LIVE:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Since the Xbox 360&rsquo;s launch in 2005, gamers have unlocked 6.3 billion Achievements. <br \/>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The average Gamerscore is 11,286.<br \/>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The total Gamerscore tallied to date (or, at least, at the original time of publication) stands at 176,802,201,383.<br \/>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Around 20 million people log into Xbox LIVE every day.<br \/>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Since the Xbox LIVE service started up in 2002, players have clocked over 4 billion hours of multiplayer game time.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, my Gamerscore is almost five times the average. That totally makes me five times <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">sadder<\/span> awesomer.<\/p>\n<p>Now you guys can argue about Achievements versus Trophies, and why one is obviously so much better than the other. Go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: 176 billion Gamerscore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}