Year-over-year growth jumps as Xbox 360 console sales hit 30 million globally and Xbox LIVE community reaches 20 million users.

REDMOND, Wash., May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. announced today that sales of Xbox 360 consoles have passed the 30 million mark globally, with its Xbox LIVE community swelling to more than 20 million active members. After the biggest year in its history in 2008, Xbox 360 achieved the highest percentage growth in hardware sales of any console so far in 2009, up 28 percent over the previous year.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Xbox-360-Sees-Record-Growth-prnews-15368729.html?.v=1

Well done vgchartz and well done ms.

What? It's a dying platform, I've heard.

The 360 will be the best HD platform of this generation, t here's no denying of it!

lol so some people say :)

Great Live numbers 20m wonder how many of those are gold?

before the NXE launched, it was like 50% - 55%. With the NXE the number of gold accounts increased siginificantly. That's what MS stated last year. So 60% might be a good guess.

So 12 million PAYING users. Insane. Think about it: 12 million * $50 (probably more, because of exchange-rates)  = 600 million USD / year! And thats just the fees.

There are:

• Arcade games
• DLCs (Fallout, Fable, Tomb Raider, GTA IV just the highlights for this year)
• VoDs
• Themes

So 1 billion (!!!) USD revenue confirmed? I know it is not profit, but THIS is huge.

Well..that is a good question......and quite a jump from Febuary where they reported 17 million