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Xbox Live - 2 Million Members and New Levels of Access |
by Chad
5/16/2005 |
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By the end of June, Xbox Live will surpass the 2-million-member mark, a doubling of the community in just the past year. This holiday season Xbox Live will have more than 300 multiplayer games available, along with a new Gold level of access, and new titles such as Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland (Activision), Star Wars Battlefront II (LucasArts) and Burnout Revenge (Electronic Arts) for Xbox, and PGR 3 (Microsoft Game Studios), Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts) and Call of Duty 2 (Activision) for Xbox 360.
Xbox Live memberships will transfer seamlessly from Xbox to Xbox 360 when the new system launches.
More exponential growth is on the horizon, because a Silver level of Xbox Live service will be available at no extra cost to Xbox 360 players who choose a broadband connection for their system. With the Silver level of service, gamers immediately access the Xbox Live Marketplace to download demos and trailers along with new game levels, maps, weapons, vehicles, skins, classic arcade games, card and board games, community-created content, and more to the detachable Xbox 360 hard drive. Players can also voice chat with friends, and send and receive text and voice messages.
In addition, Xbox 360 owners new to Xbox Live will kick-start their experience with a free month of the full subscription service, or Gold level, which will allow them to enjoy the full power of the service, including online multiplayer gaming, online tournaments and exclusive, original programming.
Special features available to Gold subscribers only also include Spectator Mode, which will supercharge the entire Xbox Live game experience. For example, in PGR 3, gamers can watch any of their friends and the world’s top players on live spectator feeds, get live ticker-tape information when friends break records, and compete with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Through riveting games and new community features, Microsoft expects to connect half of all Xbox 360 consoles to Xbox Live.
“With new levels of service and new features like Gamer Profiles, Xbox Live Marketplace, spectator mode and video chat inspiring new ideas and audiences, Xbox 360 has us re-imagining the future of online games,” said Laurent Detoc, executive director of Ubisoft North America. “Every great game in the next generation will be a great online game. Gamers can count on Ubisoft to push the possibilities of Xbox Live to the very edge.”
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XBOX365 Says
Sweet, now there are 1,999,998 people that can kick me ass on Live. At least I have Coola.
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isnt american wasteland for the 360????
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Yes it is!
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tht1prsn
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phew, I almost thought I'd have to pay extra for gold, but.. if I have live now.. that means I'll have gold.. is my presumption... hopefully.. . well it dang well better be.
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GLOW
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yea it is probably like that, they might just bring up the price alil bit like 5 or 10 bucks if anything, buts thats cool that even if u dont have the gold u can still post ur stuff online for free, i think thats a cool idea, but oh well ive been on live since before it launched beta testing, and i dont plan on cancelling anytime soon. and its cool how u can now watch live tv from ur xbox, thats amazing. and still receive invites!!!
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Its about time ;) More n00bs to own ;)
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sniperboy
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When X-Box 2 launches, I think that X-Box Live is going to make the difference in the long run. This time around the X-Box was 19% of the console market compared to Sony's 43% of the market. I think the X-Box Live is going to help Microsoft gain more market share at Sony's expense.
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