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End of the road: The Xbox 360 game marketplace will shut down in 2024

arstechnica.com End of the road: The Xbox 360 game marketplace will shut down

Players will still be able to download previously purchased games.

End of the road: The Xbox 360 game marketplace will shut down
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  • Hate to see any digital stores go but there isn't much left that can't be found on other consoles or the One/SeriesSX Microsoft store. Had a lot of fun panic buying when the Wii U eShop closed- enjoyed the community discussion and the thrill of finding all the hidden gems. It just seems most of the good stuff on the 360 store has been delisted for years. :/

  • If only someone would replace it with something else har.

  • Is there no backward compatibility between the current Xbox and the 360? That would be really disappointing if true. Microsoft just doesn't seem to care about the Xbox platform and gamers.

  • I wonder if this was spurred on by the fact that 360 backwards compatibility hamstrung their ability to profit from a lazy port of RDR being sold at a full $60 on other platforms. Best just remove people’s ability to buy anything from that generation in case it happens again.

    • Backward-compatible Xbox 360 games will still be available for purchase on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S stores, Microsoft says.

      So no, presumably Microsoft just doesn't want to deal with the tangle of close to 20-year-old code that holds up the Xbox 360's store interfaces.

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