Culture The Xbox 360 Store Shuts Down For Good Today - The marketplace was live for almost 19 years.

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The final countdown has begun for the Xbox 360 store, which officially shutters today after opening shop almost 19 years ago. That means you won't be able to buy Xbox 360 games or DLC on the marketplace in a matter of hours. However, they will still be available to play and redownload for people who already purchased that content.

Larry Hryb, also known as Major Nelson, marked the occasion on X, saying it was his "pleasure sharing all the thousands of marketplace sales and updates I've given over the years." Just over a year ago, Hryb left Xbox after spending 22 years with Microsoft, with his last position being senior director of corporate communications.

Almost 19 years on, all good things must come to an end. We are in the final 24 hours (or so) of the Xbox 360 Marketplace.

It was my pleasure sharing all the thousands of marketplace sales and updates I’ve given over the years.

Thank for having fun, playing fair and filing…
— Larry Hryb, Gamer Emeritus 📱⌨️🖱️🎮 (@majornelson) July 28, 2024​
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In August 2023, Microsoft announced that the Xbox 360 store would be closing today, July 29--giving people almost a year heads-up. Additionally, the Microsoft Movies and TV app will no longer function on Xbox 360 systems, meaning you can't view your content on those consoles.

However, Microsoft does say that any backward-compatible Xbox 360 (and original Xbox) games will still be available for purchase on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox.com. Online multiplayer support, meanwhile, depends on publishers and developers for Xbox 360 games and won't be affected by the store's shuttering.

As for Xbox, the latest big update for consoles and cloud arrived last month, bringing new background customization, subscription management on consoles, and mouse-and-keyboard functionality for cloud gaming.
 
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A shame to see it go, but it's impressive that they kept it up for as long as it did, to be honest. The 7th generation really was when gaming was at its finest.
 
Piggy Fatlips said:
A shame to see it go, but it's impressive that they kept it up for as long as it did, to be honest. The 7th generation really was when gaming was at its finest.
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7th Generation Xbox live Call of Duty was gaming at it's peak. It was when online gaming was becoming widespread and easy but before the fun police started to put up all those censorious rules. The Wii and PS3 was cool too,
 
That "after 19 years" is quite the "man I feel old" stat. I guess it came out in 2005, but I must've gotten mine more like 2009 when they were bundling big hard drives, so I still think of it as the "new" Xbox (having skipped the One/S/X/etc).

Has anything changed for the better since the original MW2?
 
JohnnyG said:
That "after 19 years" is quite the "man I feel old" stat. I guess it came out in 2005, but I must've gotten mine more like 2009 when they were bundling big hard drives, so I still think of it as the "new" Xbox (having skipped the One/S/X/etc).

Has anything changed for the better since the original MW2?
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Most Call of Duty games post-Black Ops 2 have become mindless microtransaction day-one DLC ridden slop. None of the campaigns have ever hit as hard as it did in like BO2 and COD4, and the multiplayer is a joke. Instead of grinding your ass off to unlock everything including the best looking camouflages, you have to use lootboxes. How the mighty have fallen.
 
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So long, partner.
 
The fucking Xbox naming is so confusing.

Let's see if I have it right:
  • Xbox
  • Xbox 360
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox One S
  • Xbox One X
  • Xbox Series S
  • Xbox Series X
and all the Ones are somehow related, and the "Series" are related, and fuck I'm confused again.
 
Piggy Fatlips said:
Most Call of Duty games post-Black Ops 2 have become mindless microtransaction day-one DLC ridden slop. None of the campaigns have ever hit as hard as it did in like BO2 and COD4, and the multiplayer is a joke. Instead of grinding your ass off to unlock everything including the best looking camouflages, you have to use lootboxes. How the mighty have fallen.
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I remember in CoD4 even the basic M16 or AK was a viable choice to go with. No retarded bells and whistles, no 30 different perks and broken killstreaks/game enders. You could rack up a nice kill count and have fun with just the M16. Things have gotten so bloated but somehow less meaningful nowadays.
 
This almost hurts more than finding out that the Wii U and 3Ds shop for both the Wii U and the Nintendo 3Ds was shut down.
 
reptile baht spaniard rid said:
The fucking Xbox naming is so confusing.

Let's see if I have it right:
  • Xbox
  • Xbox 360
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox One S
  • Xbox One X
  • Xbox Series S
  • Xbox Series X
and all the Ones are somehow related, and the "Series" are related, and fuck I'm confused again.
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  • There was only one model of the original Xbox
  • Xbox 360 was the base model, released under a few designations (Arcade, Elite, etc) based on hard drive space. No internal Wi-Fi, but they sold a proprietary dongle that cost $100. Needed an adapter for a Kinect camera.
  • Xbox 360 S was the slim model released in 2009, didn't have the overheating problems of the original. Built-in Wi-Fi, lots of USB ports, built in Kinect port.
  • Xbox 360 E was the second slim model released in tandem with the Xbox One. I think it has fewer USB ports. I don't know why this one exists.
  • Xbox One is the base model for its generation, released in 2013. Only shipped with a Kinect 2.0 for the first year of its life.
  • Xbox One S is the slim version of the base model. Very very slightly higher specs; did not come with a Kinect. I think it needed an adapter to use one but I'm not sure. Also had a no-disc variant for something like $50 less.
  • Xbox One X was the high-end Xbox One, released in 2017. Some games are "enhanced" for it, as in, they're unlocked to run at 60fps. Every model has a disc drive. Does not run games only authorized to run on Xbox Series-tier consoles.
  • Xbox Series S is the low-end base model of its generation, released in 2020. Ironically has a weaker GPU than the Xbox One X, despite having games that can run on it, but not the One X. Does not have a disc drive.
  • Xbox Series X is the high-end base model of its generation, released in tandem with the Series S. Does have a disc drive.
  • There was a major Xbox leak last year, revealing a new model of the Xbox Series X, which is the same but without a disc drive, for the same price. That would also mark the discontinuation of physical releases for the entire Xbox brand.
It's not really a legacy worth keeping up with.
 
Piggy Fatlips said:
A shame to see it go, but it's impressive that they kept it up for as long as it did, to be honest. The 7th generation really was when gaming was at its finest.
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...??? the generation where everything became oversimplified console slop? the era of the QTE-heavy action-adventure? the era of the brown cover shooter? the era where the entire first-person shooter genre was thrown in the garbage in favor of churning out endless COD4 clones and military propaganda? the era where Spec Ops: The Line was considered the peak of Games As Art? the era where Activision, EA, and Ubisoft came to dominate gaming culture with shallow, annualized franchises? where publishers deliberately tried to eliminate the PC as a viable platform to cut development costs while shifting the blame to consumers by using piracy as a red herring? the era where always-online DRM became the norm, and gamers were scolded for being uncomfortable with it? the era where every game review outlet was quietly bought out by media conglomerates and converted into glorified advertising platforms whose staff are paid to print 10/10 reviews for every new high-budget turd squeezed out by the top publishers, chasing out all the old hobbyists and replacing them with the type of soulless soy grifter that led to gamergate? the era where there was a "debate" over whether 1080p/60 FPS was necessary for gaming, all because Microsoft's shitbox was designed to run at 720/30? the 7th generation was a brutally cursed era that degenerated the entire industry and artform, and gaming culture is still struggling to recover from it, because of all the kids that grew up during this era that are conditioned to think it was Good, Actually. rip bozo.
 
PSwii60 was the last good console generation (pre 2010). Watching it change in real time was sad. RIP, Console gaming.


Pissmaster said:
There was a major Xbox leak last year, revealing a new model of the Xbox Series X, which is the same but without a disc drive, for the same price. That would also mark the discontinuation of physical releases for the entire Xbox brand.
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ACKSHUALLY. Microsoft are cunts and increased the priced. The series X, without a disc drive and a 2tB HDD is now $600 and £500+ quid, making it more expensive than the disc-drive version and still being scandalously expensive, four fucking years into the generation.

Last gen you could have bought both an Xbox and PS4 for the price of either this gen.
 
All right, so when the fuck is a 360 softmod coming out now that there's no online checking, it's 2024 and the other systems have had it since they were on the fucking market, why the fuck do I have to do goofy shit like solder to debug headers or fucking power drill a chip die to mod a 360.
 
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