Xbox Live reaches 6 million members ahead of schedule, all out of bubble gum |
One of the greatest B film lines of all time was ad libbed by wrestler Rowdy Piper in the John Carpenter film They Live. The film died in the theaters and in the minds of critics, but Piper’s line lives on: “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass …and I’m all out of bubblegum.”
This perfectly sums up Microsoft mopping up the competition with Xbox Live. Gamers continue to respond en masse. They have created an arcade online. The biggest arcade in the world and you never even have to leave your couch.
At E3 this past year, Microsoft announced the goal that the Xbox LIVE community would be 6 million members strong by June 2007. We underestimated ourselves.
Microsoft is proud to announce today that more than 6 million gamers worldwide are connected to Xbox LIVE, a milestone that was reached 4 months ahead of schedule.
Meanwhile, Sony continues to stumble along, releasing the occasional game to the Playstation Store. We finally got our hands here in the US on Tekken 5, but that was available for a couple months elsewhere. Also added recently: Q*bert and Flow.
Nintendo’s Virtual Console continues to release “new” games weekly, just like Xbox Live, however most of that content is just overpriced games we already can play on older consoles. Worms coming out later today on Xbox Live and I learned that a multiplayer pinball game is coming to Xbox Live too.
Congratulations Microsoft for showing the way with online gaming. Let’s hope Sony takes the clues for how to do an online system soon and Nintendo can only play the gimmick card so long.
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