Xbox Live Marketplace a Success…So Far

May 17, 2006 By Ian Bell

The Xbox Live Marketplace has surpassed 24 million downloads since November 2005 marking a big success for Microsoft.

The Xbox Live Marketplace may have sounded controversial at first thanks to a pay-per-download business model wrapped around exclusive content and arcade games, but with 24 million downloads since the Xbox 360 was introduced last November and counting, it appears that only the critics are complaining. Last week during the Electronic Entertainment Expo AKA E3 1.5 million users logged into the Xbox live marketplace to download exclusive content direct from the show floor, including the latest high-definition game demos and trailers, such as Halo 3, Gears of War and Fable 2; game add-on content, such as Map Packs from Call of Duty 2 and additional quests from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, movie trailers and music videos, such as

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Giligan at 11:59am 18th May 2006 The wii will have all this and more! I bet M$ stole this idea from nitendo long ago and nietendos gots it way bette for the wii!
Ian Bell and Dan Gaul at 9:45am 18th May 2006 Yo Digg this story Dudes!

http://digg.com/gaming/Xbox_Live_Marketplace_Break...
ricky bobby at 9:12am 18th May 2006 Kinda cool though that the Halo 3 game trailer came out last week and it already beat out stuff that's been in the download area for months.
Tim Stevens at 12:41am 18th May 2006 30 min to download a trailer? thats crazy. I dont have the patience for that.

However, it's a great idea as long as they dont nickel and dime ya.
sandy at 9:19pm 17th May 2006 I hope Sony introduces something like this for the PS3, I love the idea. Isn't the Nintendo console going to let you download games from their older consoles?
Ian Bell and Dan Gaul at 9:18pm 17th May 2006 I love the arcade games, I think they are affordable and a blast to play. I wish the content downloaded faster though, sometimes I am waiting for 30 minutes for a trailer to download...
Benji at 9:17pm 17th May 2006 Wow i never really thought the Marketplace would take off. I wonder how much of that content was paid for?