Xbox Live now has 48M active players

Microsoft doesn’t share its hardware numbers anymore, but it’s happy to tell us that a lot of people are using its online gaming service.

Xbox Live has 48 million monthly active players, according to Microsoft’s earnings report for the second quarter of its fiscal 2016. That is up 30 percent year-over-year. While it’s difficult to tell exactly what this means for the health of the Xbox division because we don’t know how Microsoft counts active players, this at least suggests that the company’s gaming arm is trending in an upward direction.