xboxusersgroup.com reports that XBL now has 350,000 subscriptions.
"I have just learned from the 'Xbox Live Press Club' that XBL has reached more than 350,000 subscriptions.
This comes as a great joy to us as Microsoft originally expected to sell at most 100,000 subscriptions by the end of the year 2002 where it reached the 250,000 subscriptions with Xmas 2002. Now that we have reached the end of February 2003 we see that the holidays are still going on.
An Official Xbox PR release will follow soon." You can read the full newspost in the site.
While
gamesasylum.com reports that XBL received positive approval.
"They surveyed UK testers, with the following results. 97% said that they were able to connect to the service with no problems, and 96% plan to recommend the service to their friends. 66% have used the guest facility to allow friends to play without having to register, and of those friends 69% are "absolutely" or "highly likely" to purchase Xbox Live themselves.
40% declared the Voice Communicator the best feature of Xbox Live, followed by the matching system with 18% and the Gamertag with 11%. 63% of users haven't had to use the customer service helplines - but that means 37% have had to, which seems like a fairly significant percentage to us.
Xbox Live launches officially on 14th March, in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden." Read the full article
here. This should hopefully encourage a good turnout of players on PSO XBox!