Microsoft/Xbox bragging rights

Microsoft has released a stats sheet letting everyone know how well they're doing.

Some interesting things I saw were that since the 360 came out, over 300 million achievements were achieved for over 7.5 million gamerscore.

Also, more than 6 billion Microsoft Points have been purchased. After using the handy Microsoft Points Converter website, I found out that 5 billion MSP is equal to $62,475,000. (I also discovered that the converter doesn't covert numbers higher than 2,147,483,647.)

And out of the 10 million Xbox 360s out there, 6 million of them are members of Xbox Live.

Most the stat sheet boils down to "Yay! Xbox Live kicks ass!" And I actually agree. Here's to you, Microsoft.

XYBA Podcast Ep 03

Here is XYBA Podcast 03, where we are joined by Jeff and Bryan. We change the format a little to give some room for some Crackdown talk. This is the longest podcast so far clocking in at one hour and 23 minutes. Here is the breakdown.

0:00 - Open and Intros (Johnny Cash)
0:01 - Games we are playing
0:07 - Video Game News
0:24 - Bryan and Jeff talk about Wii's VC content not transferable to a new Wii
0:30 - Round table discussion about achievements and entitlements and how it has changed gaming
0:45 - Crackdown review
0:57 - Games we are looking forward to
1:05 - Rants start here
1:19 - Shout outs and outro (Rick Ross)

Thanks to Jeff and Bryan to for coming out. You can be their friend on X-Box live at:

I'd post their Wii friend codes, but we've run out of room. Enjoy.

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More Rewards Challenge Info

Ok. This morning when I woke up, I saw that there was only about 25-30% of the top prizes of the Old Spice Challenge prizes left. I decided to step it up and went out and rented College Hoops 2K6 for an easy 850 gamerscore increase. I have now completed the rewards challenge.

Now that I'm on the inside, I can reveal some of the mysteries.

Number one: the actual rewards will not be given out until after the challenge is over (4/12/07).

Number two: Yes, the prizes are limited. First come(or finish in this case), first serve. Here is a breakdown of the prizes:

• Gamer Pics (all levels) - Unlimited
  
• Experience Level Upgrade - Unlimited
  
• Contra for XBLA - 70,000
  
• 100 Microsoft Points - Unsure (probably 2,500)
  
• 200 Microsoft Points - 2,500
  
• Clipper T-shirt - 2,500
  
• Fusion Frenzy 2 - 2,500

So there you are. If you aren't one of the first 2,500 people to complete the challenge on the higher levels, you won't get some of the prizes.