One billion hours spent on Xbox Live each month

Microsoft has just released some numbers about the Xbox 360 and its usage, perhaps most notable among them the fact that the 25 million Xbox Live members worldwide use the service for an average of more than 30 hours per month. That equates to more than one billion hours spent on Xbox Live each and every month.

It’s unclear exactly what Microsoft counts as time spent on Xbox Live. Even so, it’s an impressively high number ahead of the expansion of Xbox Live to nine new countries at some point this fall.

Other facts shared by Major Nelson over on his blog include the fact that there have been 42 million Xbox 360 consoles sold across the 35 countries it’s available in. Over the past year, there has been an increase of 157% in time spent watching movies and television shows on 360. Additionally, 42% of Xbox Live Gold members spend an average of one hour watching either TV or movies on their 360, which works out to over 30 hours of usage every month.

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