Again in August 2023, Microsoft formally introduced that the Xbox 360 on-line retailer would shut in July 2024. That day has now come—and with it, the period of the Xbox 360 lastly involves an finish.

The net retailer’s closure doesn’t simply imply that digital Xbox 360 video games can now not be bought or downloaded. Digital movies and TV sequence are additionally now not playable on the Xbox 360.

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Bidding farewell to the Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 was formally launched greater than 18 years in the past on November 22, 2005. Because the successor to the primary Xbox gaming console, it loved nice reputation and produced a number of iconic recreation titles, together with Halo 3 and Gears of Conflict 2.

Eight years later in 2013, it was taken over by its successor within the Xbox One, and the Xbox 360 was formally discontinued in 2016. You may nonetheless purchase, obtain, and play video games for some time—however that point has now come to a detailed with immediately.

That stated, because of backwards compatibility, you possibly can nonetheless play many video games from the Xbox 360 period on fashionable consoles such because the Xbox Sequence X. Nonetheless, sustaining video games that run on older programs is an ongoing downside for the gaming business.

Xbox 360 video games are nonetheless playable

Even when you can now not obtain video games from the web retailer, it’s nonetheless attainable to maintain enjoying those you have already got put in. Multiplayer also needs to be playable to some extent, offered the builders haven’t but switched off their respective on-line servers.

In keeping with Microsoft, it also needs to be attainable to switch recreation saves from the cloud to different consoles. Nonetheless, it’s unclear how for much longer this characteristic will likely be obtainable.

By the way, just a few weeks earlier than the tip of the web retailer, some Xbox 360 video games elevated in worth. The disc variations of standard titles like Tomb Raider and Name of Obligation had been all of a sudden buying and selling at larger costs as demand elevated. On common, Xbox 360 video games turned 14 % costlier in comparison with the earlier yr.

Nonetheless, Microsoft now depends a lot much less on bodily copies of video games. Trendy titles at the moment are supplied as a part of Xbox Sport Cross, with many AAA video games made obtainable on day one in all launch. It not too long ago obtained costlier, nevertheless it’s nonetheless one of the crucial economical choices for avid gamers.

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