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End of the road: The Xbox 360 game marketplace will shut down in 2024 (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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. :/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, at least Microsoft is invested heavily in backwards compatibility, is still allowing people to download purchases they've made, and are continuing to offer backwards compatible Xbox games for Series X.

I mentioned this in another thread, but this is less Nintendo closing down a store full of games that cannot be found anywhere else, and more like Steam dropping support for Windows 7.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Well put! I also wonder if backwards compatible purchases made after the shutdown will retroactively work on 360. I bought stuff for 360 through the new Microsoft store often and it showed up fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If only someone would replace it with something else har.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

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.