After a decade of service, Xbox Live usage hits an all-time high

Microsoft is reporting that its Xbox Live subscribers logged a record number of hours on the service last week.

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“It’s been 10 years since the launch of Xbox Live, and the service is bigger and better than ever and booming with games and entertainment,” Microsoft said in a statement. “Xbox Live registered the most time spent on the service ever, with 442 million hours in a one week period,” from Nov. 6-13.

The record number of logged hours on the service is likely due to two very significant events that happened last week: the release of Halo 4 and Xbox Live’s live presidential election day coverage.

We already know that most subscribers use Xbox Live for entertainment and media consumption, which has undoubtedly increased — especially now that the service has support for Amazon Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, YouTube, Netflix, and Internet Explorer as well as its new Xbox Music streaming service.