During lat year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft announced that it expected to have 6 million members on Xbox Live by June of 2007. Today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco the company announced that they will probably exceed that milestone by June. The company announced today that its online gaming service for the Xbox and Xbox 360 has hit the 6 million member mark already - that's four full months ahead of what the company expected last year.

Microsoft says that nearly 10 million Xbox 360 systems have been released since its launch in November of 2005 and is available in 37 countries. The attach rate for software is estimated at 4.6 titles per household and more than 160 high definition games are available at retail including Viva Piñata, Gears of War and Crackdown. An average of over 2,000,000 text and voice messages are sent every day between members on the service and the average Xbox LIVE Gold subscriber has 22 friends on their Xbox LIVE friends list. To date, Xbox 360 owners have unlocked nearly 300 million Achievements. All of those unlocked Achievements have created a total combined Gamerscore of nearly 7.5 billion.

And in other news today, Xbox LIVE members can download the first ever HD episode of “South Park,” exclusive to the Xbox 360 and available free starting today, March 6th, from around the world.