The Xbox 360 Store Will Close July 2024, But You Can Keep Playing Your Favorite Games - Xbox Wire

On July 29, 2024, Xbox will stop supporting the ability to purchase new games, DLC, and other entertainment content from the Xbox 360 Store on the console and the Xbox 360 Marketplace. This change will not affect your ability to play Xbox 360 games or DLC you have already purchased.

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I guess it was inevitable. But here are the key points

• The store will close July 2024, and you will no longer be able to buy any Xbox 360 games, DLC or other content digitally from either your Xbox 360 consoles or the website

• The Microsoft Movies & TV app will also cease to function

• Your previously purchased content will continue to work on Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles (assuming it's backwards compatible for the latter two)

• Mulitplayer is not affected

• You will still be able to download content you already own

• You will still be able to buy backwards compatible content on Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles

Obviously backwards compatible titles are only a relatively small percentages of overall games released digitally on Xbox 360 so there's going to be a lot of games that just disappear because they never had a physical release and were never made compatible with newer consoles for one reason or another. The piracy scene is pretty strong on Xbox 360 so I guess that's the only way those games will be preserved?

Sony reversed course on closing their PS3 store a while back after a community push back. I wonder if that might happen here? Do enough people care?