Yes, Microsoft has announced that there have now been over 24 million downloads from Xbox Live worldwide, a figure boosted considerably by the company's decision to make key E3 demos available to subscribers. As the press release merrily points out:
"Xbox Live members downloaded over 5 million pieces of gaming and entertainment content during the 7 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 6 million unique users to the site as well."
Naturally, being a reasonably competitive company, Microsoft gleefully pointed out that "Only Xbox Live could bring E3 home in high definition for consumers around the world" - apart from (among others I suspect) the site I blogged about last week, offering the Hi-Def Spore demo to lowly PC and Mac owners.
Anyway, enough quibbling, do you want to see which ten demos received the most downloads? I bet you can't guess number one...
1. Halo 3 Game Trailer (Microsoft Game 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 Pack (20th Century Fox) 6. Gears of War GameTrailer (Microsoft Game Studios) 7. Call of Duty 2: Skirmish Map Pack (Activision) 8. Spiderman 3 Game Trailer (Activision) 9. Fable 2 Trailer (Microsoft Game Studios) 10. Uno Xbox Live Arcade Game (Microsoft Game Studios)
Good to see Lost Planet right up there at number two - a slightly atypical Xbox title in that it has been developed in Japan and doesn't involve WWII, terrorists, comic book characters or Master Chief...
