Xbox Live grows to 39M active gamers — but Xbox hardware sales down 17% from a year ago

Microsoft didn’t say how many Xbox 360s and Xbox Ones it sold last quarter, but it does point out that its online-gaming service is growing.

Xbox Live now has 39 million monthly active gamers, according to Microsoft’s quarterly financial report. That’s up 28 percent year-over-year, but this number also doesn’t really tell the whole story. Clearly, this means that Microsoft has 39 million people logging onto Live, but it doesn’t indicate in any way how many of those are paying Gold members. It did say that Live’s revenues were up 17 percent and game revenue climbed 66 percent thanks to Minecraft.