Like many individuals that close to their eighteenth birthday, the Xbox 360 will quickly lose assist from its guardian firm. Right now, an announcement on Xbox Wire revealed that the Xbox 360 retailer might be shutting down on July 29, 2024. This implies you’ll now not be capable of buy video games or DLC on the console, and the Microsoft Motion pictures & TV app will cease working altogether.
Nonetheless, the publish makes it clear that content material purchased beforehand will nonetheless be playable after the cutoff date, so digital video games on the 360 ought to nonetheless work simply positive, and you will all the time be capable of re-download them. Video games with on-line multiplayer options will even nonetheless be purposeful, although that exists on extra of a game-by-game foundation. For instance, the servers of many Halo video games have already been shut down. And whereas the Microsoft Motion pictures & TV app will now not work on the 360, your content material there transfers to wherever else you have got the app.
Moreover, backwards appropriate 360 video games will nonetheless be accessible to buy and play on the Xbox One and Sequence X/S. Whereas this does not embody each sport on the 360 retailer, it does cowl many of the platform’s hottest titles. Xbox linked its full listing of backwards appropriate video games in at present’s announcement publish. Here is the newest batch from November 2021:
For extra Xbox 360 nostalgia, you may revisit our prime 25 Xbox 360 video games of all time.
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