This is for us XBL lovers -
"Heavy Xbox Live playGreenberg said that on day one, roughly 1 million GTA IV users went online with the game on Xbox Live.
"It's
been the number one game on Xbox Live since its launch, so it's knocked
off Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4," said Greenberg. "At launch, our data
shows that out of all of our members on Live, the majority of them were
playing GTA IV.
"With a community of over 10 million members, that's pretty rare."
Greenberg
also said that 2 million GTA IV achievements were unlocked in the first
24 hours of the game's release. In addition, over 15 million
Gamerscore points were added to users' accounts in the first day.
1.5 million cross-game invites also occurred during that period.
Microsoft
has been keen to leverage GTA IV's strong online multiplayer component
by including a one-month Xbox Live gold subscription with all GTA IV
launch copies. The firm hopes the game will drive Xbox Live adoption.
Gold subscriptions cost $50 for a full year.
"Our teams have
been doing a lot of work in advance of this game, in fact, months. The
operations team has been working on scaling our infrastructure around
building and increasing our server capacities," he added.
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