These are the 25 most common Xbox Live acheivements ? Video ...

Rounding out our trip through Xbox data, it?s time to prowl through the list of the 25 most common Xbox Live achievements. These are the most popular achievement earned on the Xbox 360 in a relative sense ? basically, the number of unlocks versus number of people that played each game.

This data comes courtesy of the folks over at Giant Bomb and their massive list of users with linked Xbox Live accounts. That means the data is representative of the complete Xbox 360 achievement list, but it?s not based on the full data set. Maybe one day Microsoft will open up the books, but this is the best we have for now.

The most striking thing about this list is that it?s absolutely dominated by Windows Phone games. In the entire top 25, only five titles are from Microsoft?s popular Xbox 360 console. All of the rest are from the company?s far less popular phone OS. One likely contributing factor to this phenomenon is that the Windows Phone App+Game store isn?t as dense as its Android/iOS counterparts, so Windows Phone users likely don?t have as many games to choose from. With the exception of Flowerz, most of the Windows Phone achievements have only a few hundred unlocks; so what makes them common is that total number of players is also quite small.

The Xbox 360 games on the list are Zuma?s Revenge!, Forza Horizon, NeverDead, Megamind (a tie-in to the animated feature film), and Mark of the Ninja. Although Forza is the most recognizable name in that group, the recently-released, entirely-awesome Mark of the Ninja manages to quietly sneak in and take the award for most unlocks with 2,789. Clearly the buzz around this downloadable stealth title has gotten a lot of users to give it a spin ? at least long enough to take down a single guard.

Perhaps the most curious entry in the top 25 is Fable Coin Golf, a Windows Phone 7 exclusive game that generates gold in Fable III. So how did a trophy from the tie-in game land in the top 25, while Fable III did not? The most likely answer is that the Fable Coin Golf players were split between the Xbox 360 and PC versions of Fable III.

Now read: The rarest Xbox Live achievements and the rarest PlayStation trophies

Thanks to Giant Bomb for helping us with the data!

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/these-are-the-25-most-common-xbox-live-acheivements-2012123/

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