Xbox Live user-base tops 35 million

Xbox Live marketing manager for EMEA Robin Burrowes has noted that "up to 35 million people globally" in 35 countries are now Xbox Live members....

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Xbox Live marketing manager for EMEA Robin Burrowes has noted that "up to 35 million people globally" in 35 countries are now Xbox Live members. Membership for the service has been growing steadily, with five million new users having been added since last January. He attributes part of this year's growth spurt to extending the service's reach to nine new countries--Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and South Africa--at the end of 2010.

Burrowes told Joystiq that Xbox Live has actually generated "more revenue from the transaction space than the subscription space," which basically means that the revenue generated from digital sales--of games, music, and movies--pull in more money than Xbox Live subscriptions.

Thirty-five million users is an impressive number, to be sure. That said, Burrowes wasn't able to provide a clear breakdown of how the 35 million person userbase compares in terms of subscribers versus non-subscribers.

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    August 18, 2011 6:30 PM

    Jeff Mattas posted a new article, Xbox LIVE user-base tops 35 million.

    Xbox Live marketing manager for EMEA Robin Burrowes has noted that "up to 35 million people globally" in 35 countries are now Xbox LIVE members....

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      August 18, 2011 8:11 PM

      does that number include anyone who also has a GFWL account? I would assume so, and if it does, that makes the number a bit misleading (albeit not by much)

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        August 18, 2011 8:17 PM

        why would you assume that?

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          August 18, 2011 8:30 PM

          Because they're the same account?

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          August 19, 2011 2:05 AM

          My guess is he's a fanboi of one of the competing consoles.

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        August 18, 2011 10:45 PM

        it says xbox live though not GFWL

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      August 18, 2011 8:31 PM

      How many are gold, must be a low number since that isn't divulged.

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