Posting on his semi-official Major Nelson blog, Hryb claimed that in the week after the NXE launch, movie downloads were found to have increased by 49 percent, with downloads of TV episodes climbing 30 percent.
More encouragingly for the company, Hryb suggested that XBLA titles had “almost tripled” in sales in the first week after launch, and that the average user had increased their friends list by 33 percent.
Aside from electing an indulgent use of simile (“if Live were a US city, it would be the largest city with over 14-million members. The equivalent of New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago combined” [emphasis theirs]), Hryb claimed that the downloadable card game Uno saw a 650 percent increase in sales in a single day after the game was updated to feature NXE avatars.
“In the past year the average number of unique visitors to Xbox Live each day has risen 66 percent,” Hryb added.
Interestingly, there was no sign of details on the uptake of Netflix, NXE’s new flagship subscription service which allows users to stream movies to the console.