Microsoft celebrates 2015 Xbox milestones

With the 2015 year concluded, Microsoft has announced that fans on Xbox platforms have set new records for global engagement on Xbox Live this holiday.

On Dec. 28 there were more gamers using Xbox Live than any other day in Xbox history, and the number of hours spent gaming on Xbox One and Xbox 360 during Christmas week 2015 were up compared to last year.

Every title in the 2015 holiday games line-up – Halo 5: Guardians, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Forza Motorsport 6 and Gears of War: Ultimate Edition – sold over 1 million units, and the number of Xbox One gamers who played Microsoft Studios-published titles more than doubled compared to 2014.

The year saw the release of over 200 new features including the New Xbox One Experience and the most-requested feature, Xbox One Backward Compatibility. More than 350 games were released or were made playable on Xbox One in 2015 (including first and third-party, ID@Xbox and Xbox One Backward Compatibility titles).

Xbox gamers earned over 4 billion achievements and racked up a total Gamerscore of over 77 billion in 2015. Since Xbox One Backward Compatibility launched, global Xbox gamers have logged more than 15 million hours playing Xbox 360 games on Xbox One.

Elsewhere, over 6.6 million hours of Xbox One games streamed to Windows 10 PCs. And gaming continues to grow on Windows 10 – in 2015, gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games on Windows 10. In the six months since Windows 10 launched, it has already become the second most popular OS for Steam players behind Windows 7.

Microsoft has also re-confirmed its 2016 lineup, which includes Gears of War 4, Quantum Break, and Crackdown 3. New titles were also confirmed for Windows 10, such as ReCore, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, and Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.

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