Xbox Live offers Gamers a Statistical Assessment of their Gaming Habits
The proof of this for me can be found in the large number of posts to the chat boards on Live and other sites that complain whenever a game that has a solid single-player campaign with a lighter multi-player side contains too many online and multi-player Achievements. Gamers seem to get very annoyed by this, and if you read the comments that they make, they are unequivocal about why that is: they do not like playing games online.
My Entertainment Use
Obviously I did not need this particular stat chart to know that I use Netflix pretty much exclusively for video entertainment on my Xbox. In truth the only time that I load Zune is for when the movie that I want to watch is not one of the ones you can get on Netflix, at which point I then go onto Zune and rent it there rather than hoof it down to the local Red Box because why? Because Zune is just more convenient, that is why!
Still, if I did take advantage of the other services on Xbox it would be interesting to see how it all breaks down...
The Rest of the StatsThe rest of the stats on the page cover things like the number of Marketplace downloads that I made in the past 6 months -- it was 5, while the Community average was 8, so yeah, I suck.
The most popular Avatar Item turned out to be the Mystery Box prop from Call of Duty: Black Ops -- and as I have no idea what will pop out of the box and would constantly worry that my elementary school history teacher Sister Mary Agatha would pop out with her ruler and put the beat-down on my Avatar I am not likely to buy it any time soon...
Finally there was the most popular XBLA game -- Full House Poker -- and the most popular Zune Movie -- Due Date -- neither of which I am ever likely to buy, because (1) I own a deck of cards, and (2) Zach Galifianakis really weirds me out and besides that, the premise is utter rubbish -- they have a computer program that will red-flag a flight if there are any bags on board for a passenger who is not on board you know, and really, having been through the whole having a kid thing twice the idea of enduring the stress of that situation as entertainment strikes me as... Well...
What Does it Mean?
According to Microsoft on any average day around 20 Million gamers log into Live to play a game, and they have an average Gamer Score of around 11,000 GP each. My current Gamer Score is a whopping 91,345 but, before you start thinking that is an excessively large number bear in mind that I play games every day because I am paid to. I also point out in my defense that there is a bloke named Raymond Cox (Gamer Tag: Stallion83) who has a Gamer Score of 598,605 who says he will not stop until he cracks 1-Million...
From a statistical point of view this is an odd time of the year to be gathering statistics anyway, because we are in the middle of what is called the Summer Doldrums -- a period that runs from mid-May to late August each year during which very few games are released, and none of the AAA titles are released. I have not been able to learn why this happens every year, and though I have seen a lot of speculative reasons for it, none have had empirical evidence to back them up.
What that means is that gamers are playing the titles that released just before the beginning of the Doldrums, or they are dusting off and revisiting older titles -- and I bet it is more the latter than the former for most. According to official Xbox spokesman and Gaming God Major Nelson the Top 20 games on Xbox Live for the week of July 18th were:
01 -- Call of Duty: Black Ops
02 -- Modern Warfare 2
03 -- Halo: Reach
04 -- FIFA Soccer 11
05 -- GTA IV
06 -- NBA 2K11
07 -- Battlefield: Bad Co. 2
08 -- Halo 3
09 -- Gears of War 2
10 -- Call of Duty 4
11 -- NCAA Football 12
12 -- Call of Duty: WaW
13 -- Red Dead Redemption
14 -- Fallout: New Vegas
15 -- Forza Motorsport 3
16 -- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
17 -- Mortal Kombat
18 -- Madden NFL 11
19 -- Left 4 Dead 2
20 -- NHL 11
As you can see I totally nailed that! Go me!
If you decide to check out your stats on the Live site we would like to invite you to share them with us here by adding them as a comment below -- it does not need to be fancy -- just chalk it up to us being curious as to how we stack up...
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