Microsoft Xbox officially announced today that the Xbox 360 online game store (Xbox 360 Marketplace, Xbox 360 game market) will be officially closed on July 29, 2024, which means that this will be closed this year. A store that turns 18 in November ends its mission a year later.
▲ Picture source Microsoft Xbox official news
Due to the “incomplete backward compatibility strategy” of the Xbox One and its subsequent models, Xbox Series, some Xbox 360 and Xbox first-generation games have stores that are currently on the consoles of the Xbox One and Xbox Series, so players can still buy “downward compatibility” in these stores. Compatible” Xbox 360 and original Xbox games. After the closure of the Xbox 360 store in July of next year, these backwards-compatible old games and their DLC can still be purchased and played through the mall of the modern console.
However, those Xbox360 or original Xbox games that are not on the “downward compatibility list” will not be able to be purchased again after July 29 next year, but even if the mall is closed, players can still download and play purchased games and DLC content freely.
▲ Picture source Microsoft Xbox 360 “Game Bazaar”
Whether games that support multiplayer can continue to play depends on the strategy of the game developer, and has nothing to do with the outage of the store. For example, Rockstar shut down the “GTAOL” servers on the PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms as early as December 16 of the previous year.
In the generation of PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii (Wii U), Sony announced as early as April 2021 that it would close the PlayStation Store (PS3 game store) on the PS3 platform, but due to widespread opposition from players, it finally announced that it would cancel the closure of the store. , while Nintendo announced on March 28 this year that it would officially close its 3DS and Wii U stores. Microsoft’s current move could lead to Sony following suit, announcing that it will officially shut down the PS3 game store in the future.
