Xbox live hits some serious figures.

The Xbox PR team just realesaed some interesting data. Check these numbers out!

• The Xbox Live Marketplace just passed 50 million downloads. That is double the 25 million mark from just three months ago.
• In
  the first week of Madden ’07 releasing, Xbox Live members unlocked over
  600,000 achivements and hosted more then 2-million hours of Madden
  gameplay.
• ‘Texas Hold ‘em’ set a one day record as the
  fastest download item every on the Marketplace. There were over 100
  downloads a minute in the first 24-hours of release.

Other Xbox Live statistics:

• More than 50 million downloads of gaming and entertainment content from Xbox Live Marketplace to date
• Over
  2 billion hours spent on Xbox Live by gamers across the globe since the
  launch of the Xbox Live online gaming network in November 2002
• More than 60 percent of Xbox 360 owners are connected to Xbox Live
• 1,300,000 text and voice messages are sent via Xbox Live every day. Currently totaling half a billion sent
  messages between the Xbox Live community per year, this figure is set
  to explode with the launch of the Xbox Live Vision camera on September
  19, 2006 in the U.S.
• 65 per cent of all connected consoles already downloading and playing Xbox Live Arcade titles
• Over 8 million downloads of Xbox Live Arcade games following the launch of Xbox 360
• Over 2 billion Microsoft Points sold to date

for the record that 2 billion microsoft points equates to £17,000,000.00 in real cash. mooooooney spinner