Xbox 360 Market, the console’s on-line retailer, will stop operations on July 29, 2024. After that day, 360 homeowners will now not have the ability to buy new video games or leisure content material for his or her consoles, and the Microsoft Films and TV app will cease working, too.
Whereas many will undoubtedly be disenchanted in the truth that the 360 Market, a centerpiece of the now 18-year-old console, is fading away, homeowners will have the ability to play any beforehand bought digital video games or these on bodily discs.
“This variation is not going to have an effect on your skill to play Xbox 360 video games or DLC you’ve already bought,” Microsoft confirmed in its August 17 announcement put up. “Xbox 360 sport content material beforehand bought will nonetheless be out there to play, not solely the Xbox 360 console but additionally Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X/S gadgets by way of backward compatibility.”
Neither multiplayer matches (for appropriate on-line video games) nor cloud saves might be impacted by the Market closing, and customers will proceed to have the ability to purchase backward-compatible video games on newer Xbox consoles, together with Xbox Sequence X/S, on which 360 video games will obtain “FPS Enhance, Auto HDR, and quicker loading occasions,” Microsoft says.
The 360’s film and TV streaming functionality will take an even bigger hit than its Market. Whereas something bought on the 360 film app will keep in your library, you’ll solely have the ability to view this content material on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X/S after July 29. As with video games on bodily discs, it’s best to nonetheless have the ability to watch motion pictures and reveals by way of DVD on the Xbox 360, since that course of doesn’t require any further software program.
This improvement clarifies a February Xbox help web page declaration that “the Xbox 360 Market [will be closed] over the subsequent yr, so we encourage you to buy any 360 video games or DLC by Might 2023.” On the time, Microsoft stated the discover was “posted in error,” however now we all know that solely its 2023 timeline was incorrect.