Xbox 360 Store to Become a Thing of the Past Starting in 2024

Microsoft is bringing an finish to its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace beginning July 29, 2024, the firm introduced on Thursday. The closure brings an finish to Xbox 360’s 18-year run of bringing video video games and different content material to gamers all over the place.

After the July cutoff, Microsoft confirmed in a weblog submit that prospects received’t have the opportunity to purchase new video games, expansions, movies, or the rest on the console or Marketplace. Gamers involved that they received’t have the opportunity to entry their present content material received’t have to fear, for the foreseeable future not less than, as they’ll nonetheless have entry to present content material in their library. Similarly, the TV and Movie apps can be faraway from the Xbox 360 however customers will nonetheless have the opportunity to entry their downloaded motion pictures and exhibits on the Movies Anywhere app or web site.

Microsoft declined to present additional details about the change in an electronic mail to Gizmodo and as a substitute referred to its weblog submit the place prospects can entry normal questions.

The shift away from the gaming console and Marketplace will permit Microsoft to deal with its Xbox Series X|S which can change into “the best place to play now and in the future,” the weblog submit says. Advancing know-how has had an influence on gaming units, Microsoft mentioned in its weblog submit. “A lot has changed since the Xbox 360 launch in 2005,” the firm mentioned, including that “technology has evolved” and “expectations from players have shifted.”

While Microsoft will not produce new video games for the Xbox 360, the firm says prospects will nonetheless have the opportunity to buy older video games that will even be suitable with the new collection. Dave McCarthy, company vice chairman of Xbox participant providers informed The Verge,

“You will still be able to purchase hundreds of great backward-compatible Xbox 360 and Original Xbox games and DLC on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox.com.”

Microsoft has listed all of its video games that may nonetheless be obtainable on its web site spanning all the manner again to the starting.