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Xbox 360 store to shut down today, around 220 games may disappear forever

2024-07-29

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Microsoft's Xbox 360 store will be shut down today. Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S users will still be able to purchase backwards compatible Xbox 360 games, but unsupported Xbox 360 games will no longer be available on the official digital store (excluding those that have already been purchased).


Before the market closed, many digital Xbox 360 games were discounted. Although many games can still be played through other means, according to VGC analysis, about 220 games will disappear forever. The head of Microsoft's gaming division previously said that he hopes to find a way to ensure that hundreds of games are not lost when the Xbox 360 digital store closes.

Xbox 360 is the second home game console released by Microsoft and is the successor to Xbox. Xbox 360 was launched in North America on November 22, 2005, and then expanded to Europe and Japan. It was officially launched in Hong Kong and Taiwan on March 16, 2006. On April 20, 2016, Microsoft announced that it would stop producing Xbox 360.