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The Average Gamer Score Is 11,286 Points
As part of a larger pending feature about Xbox Live, Kotaku preemptively posted some staggering facts relating to the service’s achievement system. What did they discover? Microsoft’s platform for bragging rights has been rewarding gamers for play in a big way.
The breakdown revealed that 6.3 billion "achievement unlocked" chimes have sounded since 2005, and that the average gamer score is 11,286. In total, 176,802,201,383 gamer points have been earned by Xbox 360 owners.
In non-achievement related news, 20 million individuals use Xbox Live daily, taking part in over 4 billion hours of online multiplayer activities. Impressive.
Any achievement hunters here contributing an abnormally large number of points to the pot?
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