Microsoft tops 35M active Xbox Live members and 55M Xbox 360s sold

Microsoft said it has sold more than 55 million Xbox 360 video game consoles since 2005 and it now has 35 million active Xbox Live users who spend an average of 60 hours a month on the service.

Cumulatively, Xbox Live members are logging 2.1 billion hours of online gaming and other entertainment each month. Compared to a year ago, video consumption on Xbox Live is three times higher. The company made the announcement ahead of next week’s E3 trade show in Los Angeles.

In the first four months of the year, Xbox 360 has seen a 29 percent increase in sales, and it has led U.S. console sales for 10 of the past 11 months. Overall, Nintendo is still No. 1 with the Wii (around 87 million sold), Microsoft is No. 2 and Sony is No. 3 with the PlayStation 3 (50 million sold) in terms of hardware units sold.

Since November, Microsoft said it has sold more than 10 million Kinect motion-sensing systems and more than 10 million Kinect games.

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