Today we passed a rather impressive milestone: we have now tracked overThat's a staggering 1,000,000,000 achievements that we have stored in our rather hefty database and that means that it's time for us to do some analysis on all of that lovely data (and there's a handy infographic)...

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1 Billion Tracked Achievements - The Analysis

Achievements Won By Year

Achievement Unlocks By Platform

The striking thing about this graph is the drop off in the number of achievements that were won during 2016: it is down almost 20% compared to 2015. With more games than ever released last year and more gamers than ever on, what could be the cause of this? We are guessing that gamers are sinking more of their time into large multiplayer games such as Tom Clancy's The Division and Overwatch: Origins Edition and perhaps are not starting as many games. We'll be looking into this in more detail in a future article.It's also interesting to note that in the first four days of 2017, there has already been almost three times as many achievement unlocks as there were in the forty-odd days after the Xbox 360 was released in 2005!

Games With Most Achievement Unlocks

As you would expect given its age and popularity, the vast majority (almost exactly 75%) of the achievements were unlocked on the Xbox 360. Impressively, the Xbox One is doing a pretty good job of catching up with over 23% of the unlocks. Windows Phone is a distant third, with Windows fourth, but we would expect the latter's share to grow as Microsoft continue to promote Xbox gaming on the PC.

Achievement Unlocks By Game Genre

The Halo Series dominates the top 10 of the games with the most unlocks. Halo: The Master Chief Collection takes first place, something that is unsurprising given that it has a whopping 600 achievements spread across its five classic titles. It is also the only Xbox One title in the top 10, with Xbox 360 titles comprising the other 9 places.The Gears of War and Call of Duty series also each have two entries in a top 10 that is dominated by classic shooters.

Most Won Achievements

Get a total of 25 combos across all of your games. The Cluster Buster achievement in Hexic HD worth 5 points

Finish the first mission of the Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary. The Landfall achievement in Halo 3 worth 21 points

Unlocked Achievement Gamerscore Distribution

Given the top 10 games chart above, and perhaps proving the stereotype of the typical gamer, most achievement unlocks (27%) come from Shooters. Right on the tail of that comes the Action-Adventure genre with 25%, and Role Playing games also take a healthy piece of the pie with a not-inconsiderable 12%. Sports and Racing games only account for around 6% of unlocks each.Interestingly, the top 5 most won achievements all come from different games, with Xbox 360 freebie Hexic HD taking the number one spot:

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Gamers With Most Achievement Unlocks

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Ponderables

5.8 million of the achievements were unlocked in TrueAchievements gaming sessions - wow!

of the achievements were unlocked in - wow! 86% of the achievements have been unlocked online

of the achievements have been 33% of the achievements have been classified as Rare by Xbox (click here for the list)

of the achievements have been by Xbox (click for the list) Only 14% of the achievements would be classed as Rare across only TrueAchievements members

of the achievements would be classed as Rare across only TrueAchievements members Over 26 million achievements have been removed for cheating by our investigations team

Average TrueAchievements Gamer

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As you may have guessed, 10 Gamerscore value achievements make up a large percentage of the achievement unlocks. AlmostThere's a healthy spread of other values too, with almost 1% of our unlocks coming from those beautiful! Interestingly, while 0 Gamerscore achievements make up over 2% of the total achievements on the Xbox platform, they only make up 0.6% of our unlocks. Developers take note:The top 5 gamers based on achievements won holds few surprises. These guys have spent years dedicated to Xbox. The sound of the bleep-bloop is what makes them tick!A particular mention must go to Stallion83 and smrnov , who have been duking it out at the top of the tree for as long as most of us can remember., and of courseand everyone atfor making such a fantastic platform.Here's to the next billion!