Xbox Celebrates its 15th Birthday With Livestreams and Giveaways

Xbox Celebrates its 15th Altogether, Gamers Surpassed 100 Billion Hours Played

Gloat Xbox with some gratuitous stuff. It's been 15 years since the launch of the original Xbox panel and Microsoft wants you to join in the fun.

Xbox Wire released an interesting amount of data which shows the billions of hours played and achievements unlocked:

Number of players: 222,468,423
Number of total gaming hours: 100,539,390,670
Number of full multiplayer hours: 29,000,304,183
Number of Achievements unlocked: 32,667,582,157
Gamerscore racked upwardly: 572,605,554,587
Highest Gamerscore: one,416,465
Number of Xbox Live friendships made: iv,233,891,482

There are going to be a number of livestreams for Halo and Forza with appearances fromKiller Instinct Team, Back Compatibility Team, Beam Squad and Ambassadors Team.

On the giveaway forepart, the Forza team is giving out an in-game Ford F-150 Raptor with custom decals for Forza Horizon 3. Forza Motorsport 6 will receive 2 new Rival events.

Halo 5 fans will exist able to get a special 15th Anniversary REQ Pack that contain the classic Mark IV Gen i armor set and make yourself look like the serial protagonist, Master Master.

The hashtag #15YearsOfXbox is making the rounds with folks sharing their favorite gaming moments with the consoles made by Microsoft.

What have been some your Xbox gaming highlights the last fifteen years? Allow us know by writing a comment beneath. The team over 343 Industries made a neat Halo 15th Ceremony tribute, which shows how far the franchise has come since its debut fifteen years ago.

Everyone at Xbox knows that we would not exist where we are today without the back up of our fans and the passion of our community. We have many wonderful memories of the past xv years of Xbox, and we know y'all do every bit well. We invite you lot to share those memories with us using the #15YearsOfXbox hashtag on your social media of choice, and we expect forwards to many more years to come!