XBOX LIVE AVATARS' potential was never fully exploited. That's why the few games that did like Doritos Crash Course will forever have a place in my heart.
I really hate the games industry's total lack of care towards preservation. It's quite sad when I can still play Quake 3 multiplayer 25 years later since it has LAN support and allows players to run their own servers, but a game like Battlefield 3 that's half as old is about to shut down and become unplayable forever. Thank God for the community that's doing its best to keep these old games playable. I recently found out some mad lads completely decompiled Ocarina of Time's and Majora's Mask's source code and created native PC ports out of them. Playing those old games in widescreen with no frame rate cap was almost surreal.
Some preservation is easier than others. When looking at it from Microsofts perspective its alot of legal time and effort to get alot if these games on future hardware and not always possible . Notice it was the most popular and best performing games that got the BC treatment. As for individual companies theres almost always a underlying reason to shut down the sale of these games(you can still play them and do local mp). In EAs case with Battlefield I think it could be licensing or the games cutting in to modern games sales numbers. Any company thats like EA is going to want to push people to the newer games especially if the older games have little to no MTX. Unfortunately the way of the world.
@@theredguy4845 uhu, 3.17 T market cap company with a quarterly net income of 21 billion. Isn't able to provide maintenance for x360 marketplace. Got it!
@@theredguy4845uhu the 3.17 T company with a quarterly net income of 21.3B isn't able to provide maintenance for Xbox 360 marketplace servers.... Got it.
@@theredguy4845 ah yes, the company with 3 trillion market cap and 21 billion quarterly net income isn't able to provide maintenance to Xbox 360 servers. Got it.
That ending bit about you keeping the 360 is me 100% with alot of my own shit Do I need half the shit I own anymore? No, but that carries alot of sentimental value that I just refuse to get rid of
I hope someday the Xenia developers make the Xbox Indie games able to be emulated because some of those games are now lost to it because of the shutdown
The Xbox 360 was my favorite console growing up. I remember playing Halo Reach at my friend’s house, playing obscure arcade titles, and just all the fun with my brother and my dad playing either Madden or CoD. RIP Xbox 360, you were the best console🫡
thankfully i was able to snipe a couple of the games that only released on the arcade store before the shutdown. those games were.. 1942 Joint Strike, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Online Edition, and a poker game that uses your 360 avatar.
When the 3DS eShop shut down the last game I purchased and downloaded was Animal Crossing Yesterday the last game I purchased and downloaded for my Xbox 360 was Terraria Not the most exciting games but I like them RIP Xbox 360 (I still use it as my DVD player cause the disc drive on my One X is mostly broken)
Just went back through my digital purchases on the 360 and it stretches back nearly 20 years. It's insane to think about. All those memories, all the fun, all the money I've spent. According to my receipts I was still on the Xbox platform up until 2015 when I traded my XB1 for a PS4. I didn't make another Xbox purchase until very late 2019 when I got Xbox live Gold for GRAW2. From then on its sparse $1 gamepass trials and a few auto renew gamepass purchases. I'm sad my time with Xbox is basically over now that the 360 is truly dead. Part of my infatuation with gaming died with that console. I have more attachment to the PS2 than I do the PS4. I've cared little about making friends or gaming with people over this past decade. I sit in front of my rig, boot up steam and lose all desire to play. Growing old suck ass.
Isnt it crazy to go through your order history and remind yourself of games you bought over 10 years ago! I wanted to make sure I had RE code veronica HD for my 360 via backwards compatible for xsx in the future because I dont know if capcom will remake it. Bought it in 2011, almost 13 years ago. Just insane. It shows you how time flies by man. Cherish every moment.
I don't overly i personal don't care at this point I'm amazed it lasted long as it did, if anything so you should be given some credit for keeping it going as long as they have but like all good thing in life shit comes to an end eventually.
Rest in piece to the greatest era of gaming EVER :( Kids will never know the absolute perfect time to be a gamer and what it was like to live in a time where all their dads worked at Microsoft
Met one of those kids who said his dad works at Microsoft in Discord a few months ago. We thought he was memeing until he responded with a picture of a blue-and-white employee badge of some middle-aged man with covered name next to a piece of paper saying "hi discord!". The immediate response in the group was "sh*t just got real". (Mod immediately removed the picture for potential doxxing rule violation)
@ross3695_basedhax 7th was the earliest gen I can really relate to, but my god, was it fun. Sometimes, I wish I could go back, but I know it's not truly as good as I remember.
Unfortunately the game publishers are mostly responsible for not wanting their to work with xbox to port the games, just look at rockstar and how bad they are at this, the only ports they made are the remastered ps2 games with ps3 graphics on ps5 and the rdr1 just port to ps 4 and switch. Rde1 on pc? No. Rdr2 on gen 9 consoles? No. Rockstar and other publishers are alergic to easy money
I'm still baffled that there's no PC port of RDR1. The only way to play it on PC is to emulate the Xbox 360 version with Xenia. It's absurd, and not only is the Switch / PS4 port overpriced, it doesn't even include the multiplayer.
Biking to the "closest" Gamestop and just perusing what you can afford as a teen is such a specific nostalgia trip that I find really funny that I resonate with. Anyway yeah, really wish they preserved all those games. A few years ago they announced that they finished porting all the OG and 360 games that they "could", dont remember the exact reason but pretty sure it was some corporate BS about licensing or whatever. Which sucks cause I still have a bunch of games that were never made backwards compatible.
The Xbla indie games are going to end up being crazy amounts of lost media. Most weren’t very good but people are going to go crazy looking for them in like 5 years
From my looking into it, you can still access and download games on Xbox 360, you just can't buy any new ones. So if you've already bought something they aren't taking it away from you. Still sucks for people who haven't bought a game that's not forward compatible with new consoles, but it's not the loss of your whole game library.
I'm the same way with my PS3(I'm NOT a Sony FanBoy). It was the first video game console I bought with my own money back in 2009. I just enlisted in the Army, that sense of having my first REAL paycheck and spoiled myself. Imagine the alarms in my brain when Sony announced the PS3 store was going to be shut down. I'm not sure if it already happened, but I was still able to visit it on the old PS3 Slim and download Demon Souls(a game I missed out on).
Couldn't you just emulate the Arcade games on a 360 emulator? I'm sure every game is on the internet somewhere. There's always a way to get an emulator, too.
A lot of games didn’t come to the Xbox One, probably because companies didn’t want their game played on Xbox One since that would mean they would lose money on new sales
Well - Try to run, for instance, Fable II on an emulator. Microsoft still does not want to port that game to the PC, so that's the only way to play that game. But try it, and let us know how that went...
Surely they have the ability to make the marketplace transition over to the modern consoles. So people can at least buy the non backwards compatible games and plug in their Xbox 360 to transfer the licences over and play them. Just closing the store and making it impossible to acquire these games is wrong.
The problem with making the Xbox fully bc is due to licensing. They have to have permission to do it. I imagine it got too expensive especially with how they were doing upgrades and stuff. They could have done hardware bc to avoid this but that would likely get pricey too.
Something to point out is that I think Microsofts original quote about preserving games was originally set towards OG/360 games. However I think theyve adjusted to make preserving newly released titles far easier in the future. So a game like Baldurs Gate 3 will have a large chance of being playable on Xbox hardware/services 15 years from now. I think thats the focus and goal. Future proofing games so there is never a loss of games or to minimize the loss of games due to hardware advancement.
Welp, seems like MS is still shitting in your hands and makes you clap afterwards. Cause yeah, shutting down the store without preservation is a rally bad move. Makes me not wanna support MS with my money anymore
Any backwards compatible games that weren't available digitally now has their dlc inaccessible, for example the 360 version of assassins creed 4 isnt available digitally and none of its dlc is as well, the 360 version is playable at 60fps but the xbone version isnt
Honestly I'm assuming most xbox 360s are dead by now. My second xbox 360 died in 2012 which was like 12 years. I have a series x and to think that 18 years from release will be 14 years from now. I can accept the store going down in 14 years. I'll probably have a new xbox by then. Nothing lasts forever. In the end it's what makes memories and life so precious.
4:36 it wouldn't cost much to have an offline providing of said items. Even so you shouldn't be surprised. Phil boy literally said both, "oh were not worried about sales for games being affected by game pass!" In the same year say, "sales down, game pass damn." (not word for word but you get the picture)
I couldn't afford a lot of content during the finale sale. I "bought" some stuff but money is tight so gotta pick and choose. . On top of other issues so much of it was still full priced and just NOT WORTH IT!. Sadly the only ones who will ever truly own the content are the ones that steal it since that is the way digital works.
Being fair to Microsoft they did list the reasons for not full backward compatibility. Licensing fees, getting the owners of the ips on board etc. limited what they could do and imo what they felt was worthwhile. Just look at Good Old Games. There are videos of some of the staff that locate and try and bring over IPs/games 30+ years old. Its hard and there are sometimes legal dead ends that leave games in legal limbo. Alot of time and effort has to be put in to all aspects of legal emulation and im sure its a very hard battle to win for team Xbox when presenting the case for BC funding from the higher ups at Microsoft. More could definitely be done but I feel Microsoft is letting the internet sort it out instead of forking over the cash or resources to do anything substantial.
Don't worry the PS3 is next it is also crumbling. The first who pulled the plug are Nintendo the guys that are aiming at nostalgia as long it is the way they see fit. The tragedy of Xbox 360 or Xbox emulation in general is it never reached the same level as Nintendo, Sony or even Sega consoles (Saturn and Dreamcast specifically). The irony is that we have much better emulation for Switch than 360. Hopefully this will reignite some fire and we will see more motivation for improvements in Xbox emulation. The only emulation that is generally under attack is Switch and this can play a bad hand for Nintendo in the long run if they play poorly on their next console. If consoles ditch physical there is no reason to buy one just get a mini PC for your TV. You will be less restricted by corporate BS and I'm telling you this as a PS3 and PS5 owner however the good thing is I'm a PC user for like 20+ years.
Just one example of why PC is better. I have recently reignited my love for CRPG's. I am now playing the original Baldurs Gate, Fallout, and Wasteland. Do that on a console! P.S. when I finish those I will move on to the next in series. I'll stop Fallout at 2 though. After that they turn into looter shooters with rpg elements.
I personally like Microsoft Xbox division because it tried to preserve games better than PlayStation did and then this happens right after the absolute failure with it flagship titles like Halo and that was the biggest thing for me I didn't feel like it was the same ones that changed and couldn't correct course and it's been extra frustrating for Halo fans and then everyone else that loves those Xbox 360 live arcade games like those are just gone forever
Finally found a l4d2 disk and now I can’t even buy the DLCs for it because I cannot buy 360 content now. and I can’t even buy anything for the game in the normal store because the game cannot be bought digitally
I'm gutted that this happened just as I was getting back into the Clash of the Titams film tie-in. There's like 5 extra challenge packs that I would love to play, but of course it's not backwards compatible. I'd anyone know a way to get redemption codes for those dlc packs, or a way to homebrew them, I would greatly appreciate it 👉👈 Otherwise, I guess I'll have to play through it all again on PC with an emulator.
What I don't get: Big chance, those Xbox 360 store servers are part of another server which is already paid for and etc. Realistically, how much more will those servers costs? Especially for a trillion dollar company like Microsoft? Reuse is the only thing I can think off. Yet, games are so big nowadays, is that gain really worth over the closure of the other?
Joe. You're incorrect. There's no physical games with simply the codes on the disc anymore. THEY AREN'T EVEN GIVING YOU THE DISC ANYMORE. They give you a PAPER CODE inside of the physical case.
Screw Microsoft they should respect the Xbox 360. The last good console they made. I wish we could’ve of stop them from doing this. PS3’s market place is still up. Why can’t the 360 stay up. R.I.P old friend.
If there are any games you wanted that has not been made backwards compatible then go pirate the game like many do anyways, because you have had 18 years to buy the games you wanted from the 360 store, so pretending as if Microsoft doesn't care when they should have or could have shut that shit down 10 years ago is laughable.
Too many indie arcade games.... gone just like that fucking hell man! simple games made with real passion unlike major AAA to "AAAA"? dog shit live service trash pumped out now with DEI bull shit! but glad that 360 emulator going strong! *waits for boot lickers to want MS to kill it off as Sony ponies do with RPCS3* i'll be here for joe's video on all that too! *PAIN SO MUCH PAIN!*
Do not worry because contrary to what reality might look like, physical versions of indie games do exist. Prodeus, Project Warlock, Forgive Me Father, Signalis, Anno Mutationem, Tales of Berseria, Scarlet Nexus, Crosscode, Hades, Grandblue Fantasy Relink, and Nights of Azure one and two all come to mind. I listed off these games, now it’s up to you to go and expand your horizons even further friend. So do just that and stay the hell away from triple A.
Trillion dollar company, yet they can't keep the 360 marketplace indefinitely or at the very least re-release them on the newer consoles and PC. And before people give out their reasons for defending this, it's just excuses. For someone like Microsoft there's no excuses, or at the very least they didn't give us any alternative to play these apart from emulation. Let's bloat future PC's with AI like Copilot even though it's a terrible idea is good, but this apparently is just "unsustainable" for them, what a fucking joke.
Let’s all say what we’re all thinking. They lied about backwards compatibility because they were so many great 360 games that never got a remake or remaster to the Xbox series X.
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XBOX LIVE AVATARS' potential was never fully exploited.
That's why the few games that did like Doritos Crash Course will forever have a place in my heart.
or the Xbox live arcade poker games that used your avatar was super dope
Castle Miner Z and Mini Wizards (if anyone even remembers that) used your Xbox live avatar as well. Lots of memories with those
In Guitar Hero, it was fun to see you avatar play around.
@@overdrivedrinker8284 I had a friend who insisted that Castle Miner Z was better than minecraft because a 'sword is crap'
Rip Xbox 360, the 360 era is when I went from liking games to being passionate about the medium with games like Gears & Halo
Playing Gears of War for the first time was amazing ❤
R.I.P Xbox
I really hate the games industry's total lack of care towards preservation. It's quite sad when I can still play Quake 3 multiplayer 25 years later since it has LAN support and allows players to run their own servers, but a game like Battlefield 3 that's half as old is about to shut down and become unplayable forever.
Thank God for the community that's doing its best to keep these old games playable. I recently found out some mad lads completely decompiled Ocarina of Time's and Majora's Mask's source code and created native PC ports out of them. Playing those old games in widescreen with no frame rate cap was almost surreal.
Some preservation is easier than others. When looking at it from Microsofts perspective its alot of legal time and effort to get alot if these games on future hardware and not always possible . Notice it was the most popular and best performing games that got the BC treatment.
As for individual companies theres almost always a underlying reason to shut down the sale of these games(you can still play them and do local mp). In EAs case with Battlefield I think it could be licensing or the games cutting in to modern games sales numbers. Any company thats like EA is going to want to push people to the newer games especially if the older games have little to no MTX. Unfortunately the way of the world.
The fact that it lasted so long is quite a miracle.
I was really convinced Microsoft would be immune for a closure.
They have enough money.
@Wesmoen But not unlimited.
@@theredguy4845 uhu, 3.17 T market cap company with a quarterly net income of 21 billion. Isn't able to provide maintenance for x360 marketplace.
Got it!
@@theredguy4845uhu the 3.17 T company with a quarterly net income of 21.3B isn't able to provide maintenance for Xbox 360 marketplace servers....
Got it.
@@theredguy4845 ah yes, the company with 3 trillion market cap and 21 billion quarterly net income isn't able to provide maintenance to Xbox 360 servers.
Got it.
That ending bit about you keeping the 360 is me 100% with alot of my own shit
Do I need half the shit I own anymore? No, but that carries alot of sentimental value that I just refuse to get rid of
More games should've been backwards compatible and on the current store.
Publisher greed
One can only hope a few Activision games or two can finally get a backward compatible release now that Microsoft owns them.
I hope someday the Xenia developers make the Xbox Indie games able to be emulated because some of those games are now lost to it because of the shutdown
The Xbox 360 was my favorite console growing up. I remember playing Halo Reach at my friend’s house, playing obscure arcade titles, and just all the fun with my brother and my dad playing either Madden or CoD.
RIP Xbox 360, you were the best console🫡
thankfully i was able to snipe a couple of the games that only released on the arcade store before the shutdown. those games were.. 1942 Joint Strike, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Online Edition, and a poker game that uses your 360 avatar.
When the 3DS eShop shut down the last game I purchased and downloaded was Animal Crossing
Yesterday the last game I purchased and downloaded for my Xbox 360 was Terraria
Not the most exciting games but I like them
RIP Xbox 360
(I still use it as my DVD player cause the disc drive on my One X is mostly broken)
Rip Xbox 360
Grabbed Blue Dragon and Azura’s Wrath last night before the shutdown. Two games I always meant to “get to” but never did.
NICE catch. No metal gear rising?
@@neoentertainment4957 I already own that. Day one purchase.
@neoentertainment4957 It's backwards compatible, plus it was on games with gold a few years ago.
The real cost of console gaming: No future-proof capability whatsoever.
Actually, the damn thing is nearly 20 years old now, so.
@@talison461 And hasn't been able to play a new game for 5 years.
I approve this message 😂
@@aquapendulum It's a damn outrage I tellz ya!
Just went back through my digital purchases on the 360 and it stretches back nearly 20 years. It's insane to think about. All those memories, all the fun, all the money I've spent. According to my receipts I was still on the Xbox platform up until 2015 when I traded my XB1 for a PS4. I didn't make another Xbox purchase until very late 2019 when I got Xbox live Gold for GRAW2. From then on its sparse $1 gamepass trials and a few auto renew gamepass purchases.
I'm sad my time with Xbox is basically over now that the 360 is truly dead. Part of my infatuation with gaming died with that console. I have more attachment to the PS2 than I do the PS4. I've cared little about making friends or gaming with people over this past decade. I sit in front of my rig, boot up steam and lose all desire to play. Growing old suck ass.
Isnt it crazy to go through your order history and remind yourself of games you bought over 10 years ago! I wanted to make sure I had RE code veronica HD for my 360 via backwards compatible for xsx in the future because I dont know if capcom will remake it. Bought it in 2011, almost 13 years ago. Just insane. It shows you how time flies by man. Cherish every moment.
I don't overly i personal don't care at this point I'm amazed it lasted long as it did, if anything so you should be given some credit for keeping it going as long as they have but like all good thing in life shit comes to an end eventually.
Rest in piece to the greatest era of gaming EVER :(
Kids will never know the absolute perfect time to be a gamer and what it was like to live in a time where all their dads worked at Microsoft
Met one of those kids who said his dad works at Microsoft in Discord a few months ago. We thought he was memeing until he responded with a picture of a blue-and-white employee badge of some middle-aged man with covered name next to a piece of paper saying "hi discord!". The immediate response in the group was "sh*t just got real".
(Mod immediately removed the picture for potential doxxing rule violation)
Ah, good times. I may be horrendously young but I'm old enough to remember the golden age. Old enough to have fully enjoyed it as well.
@@lyrenbells Same
I experienced 6th Gen, 7th Gen AND 8th Gen and have the same nostalgia for Fortnite as I do for PS2 games
We literally had it all
@ross3695_basedhax 7th was the earliest gen I can really relate to, but my god, was it fun. Sometimes, I wish I could go back, but I know it's not truly as good as I remember.
Unfortunately the game publishers are mostly responsible for not wanting their to work with xbox to port the games, just look at rockstar and how bad they are at this, the only ports they made are the remastered ps2 games with ps3 graphics on ps5 and the rdr1 just port to ps 4 and switch. Rde1 on pc? No. Rdr2 on gen 9 consoles? No. Rockstar and other publishers are alergic to easy money
I'm still baffled that there's no PC port of RDR1. The only way to play it on PC is to emulate the Xbox 360 version with Xenia. It's absurd, and not only is the Switch / PS4 port overpriced, it doesn't even include the multiplayer.
@@qu1253 rockstar doesn't want free money
a lot of people say its still up
Matter of hours.
Half of my childhood just got nuked
Biking to the "closest" Gamestop and just perusing what you can afford as a teen is such a specific nostalgia trip that I find really funny that I resonate with.
Anyway yeah, really wish they preserved all those games. A few years ago they announced that they finished porting all the OG and 360 games that they "could", dont remember the exact reason but pretty sure it was some corporate BS about licensing or whatever. Which sucks cause I still have a bunch of games that were never made backwards compatible.
The Xbla indie games are going to end up being crazy amounts of lost media. Most weren’t very good but people are going to go crazy looking for them in like 5 years
From my looking into it, you can still access and download games on Xbox 360, you just can't buy any new ones. So if you've already bought something they aren't taking it away from you.
Still sucks for people who haven't bought a game that's not forward compatible with new consoles, but it's not the loss of your whole game library.
I'm the same way with my PS3(I'm NOT a Sony FanBoy). It was the first video game console I bought with my own money back in 2009. I just enlisted in the Army, that sense of having my first REAL paycheck and spoiled myself. Imagine the alarms in my brain when Sony announced the PS3 store was going to be shut down. I'm not sure if it already happened, but I was still able to visit it on the old PS3 Slim and download Demon Souls(a game I missed out on).
I agree with you Joefromseattle. Premature closing of the marketplace b4 all 360 games aren't backwards compatible.
Couldn't you just emulate the Arcade games on a 360 emulator? I'm sure every game is on the internet somewhere. There's always a way to get an emulator, too.
A lot of games didn’t come to the Xbox One, probably because companies didn’t want their game played on Xbox One since that would mean they would lose money on new sales
360 emulation isn't perfected yet, a number of games still have issues
Well - Try to run, for instance, Fable II on an emulator. Microsoft still does not want to port that game to the PC, so that's the only way to play that game. But try it, and let us know how that went...
Surely they have the ability to make the marketplace transition over to the modern consoles. So people can at least buy the non backwards compatible games and plug in their Xbox 360 to transfer the licences over and play them. Just closing the store and making it impossible to acquire these games is wrong.
The problem with making the Xbox fully bc is due to licensing. They have to have permission to do it. I imagine it got too expensive especially with how they were doing upgrades and stuff. They could have done hardware bc to avoid this but that would likely get pricey too.
Something to point out is that I think Microsofts original quote about preserving games was originally set towards OG/360 games. However I think theyve adjusted to make preserving newly released titles far easier in the future. So a game like Baldurs Gate 3 will have a large chance of being playable on Xbox hardware/services 15 years from now. I think thats the focus and goal. Future proofing games so there is never a loss of games or to minimize the loss of games due to hardware advancement.
Welp, seems like MS is still shitting in your hands and makes you clap afterwards. Cause yeah, shutting down the store without preservation is a rally bad move. Makes me not wanna support MS with my money anymore
Any backwards compatible games that weren't available digitally now has their dlc inaccessible, for example the 360 version of assassins creed 4 isnt available digitally and none of its dlc is as well, the 360 version is playable at 60fps but the xbone version isnt
Honestly I'm assuming most xbox 360s are dead by now. My second xbox 360 died in 2012 which was like 12 years.
I have a series x and to think that 18 years from release will be 14 years from now. I can accept the store going down in 14 years. I'll probably have a new xbox by then.
Nothing lasts forever. In the end it's what makes memories and life so precious.
4:36 it wouldn't cost much to have an offline providing of said items. Even so you shouldn't be surprised. Phil boy literally said both, "oh were not worried about sales for games being affected by game pass!" In the same year say, "sales down, game pass damn." (not word for word but you get the picture)
I couldn't afford a lot of content during the finale sale. I "bought" some stuff but money is tight so gotta pick and choose. . On top of other issues so much of it was still full priced and just NOT WORTH IT!. Sadly the only ones who will ever truly own the content are the ones that steal it since that is the way digital works.
Being fair to Microsoft they did list the reasons for not full backward compatibility. Licensing fees, getting the owners of the ips on board etc. limited what they could do and imo what they felt was worthwhile.
Just look at Good Old Games. There are videos of some of the staff that locate and try and bring over IPs/games 30+ years old. Its hard and there are sometimes legal dead ends that leave games in legal limbo.
Alot of time and effort has to be put in to all aspects of legal emulation and im sure its a very hard battle to win for team Xbox when presenting the case for BC funding from the higher ups at Microsoft.
More could definitely be done but I feel Microsoft is letting the internet sort it out instead of forking over the cash or resources to do anything substantial.
I was interested in what you had to say, until I heard the first 10 seconds of this video and figured out I can care less what this man has to say
I went and bought Fabel II off the marketplace The second I heard it was shutting down. And no I’m not interested in streaming it.
Don't worry the PS3 is next it is also crumbling. The first who pulled the plug are Nintendo the guys that are aiming at nostalgia as long it is the way they see fit. The tragedy of Xbox 360 or Xbox emulation in general is it never reached the same level as Nintendo, Sony or even Sega consoles (Saturn and Dreamcast specifically). The irony is that we have much better emulation for Switch than 360. Hopefully this will reignite some fire and we will see more motivation for improvements in Xbox emulation.
The only emulation that is generally under attack is Switch and this can play a bad hand for Nintendo in the long run if they play poorly on their next console. If consoles ditch physical there is no reason to buy one just get a mini PC for your TV. You will be less restricted by corporate BS and I'm telling you this as a PS3 and PS5 owner however the good thing is I'm a PC user for like 20+ years.
i gotta grab bunch of games off of PS3's playstation store before its too late
sony already planned to shut it down but stopped due to backlash so its going to be funny seeing them repeat it again
Just one example of why PC is better. I have recently reignited my love for CRPG's. I am now playing the original Baldurs Gate, Fallout, and Wasteland. Do that on a console!
P.S. when I finish those I will move on to the next in series. I'll stop Fallout at 2 though. After that they turn into looter shooters with rpg elements.
how hard is it for Xbox to combine the 360 store and the xbox regular store?
It's been out of production since 2016. So 8 years. Goat damn.
I personally like Microsoft Xbox division because it tried to preserve games better than PlayStation did and then this happens right after the absolute failure with it flagship titles like Halo and that was the biggest thing for me I didn't feel like it was the same ones that changed and couldn't correct course and it's been extra frustrating for Halo fans and then everyone else that loves those Xbox 360 live arcade games like those are just gone forever
Everything comes to an end eventually, surprised it wasn't shut down when the Series systems released.
Finally found a l4d2 disk and now I can’t even buy the DLCs for it because I cannot buy 360 content now. and I can’t even buy anything for the game in the normal store because the game cannot be bought digitally
Backwards compatible 360 games can still be bought on 8th and 9th Gen Xboxes
I'm gutted that this happened just as I was getting back into the Clash of the Titams film tie-in. There's like 5 extra challenge packs that I would love to play, but of course it's not backwards compatible. I'd anyone know a way to get redemption codes for those dlc packs, or a way to homebrew them, I would greatly appreciate it 👉👈
Otherwise, I guess I'll have to play through it all again on PC with an emulator.
it's the end of an era...i have 2 working 360 slims and still pay them regularly...there were a lot of great games and hidden gems
Never had a Xbox but I miss the old days of the GameCube and PS3 days
I thank you for the commentary.🙏 🙌 😄
My favorite part about this channel is he's a musician, but Every. Single. Video. His mic is clipping. It's funny.
buy old games on PC, and back them up. Youll always have access to your game files!
What I don't get:
Big chance, those Xbox 360 store servers are part of another server which is already paid for and etc.
Realistically, how much more will those servers costs? Especially for a trillion dollar company like Microsoft?
Reuse is the only thing I can think off. Yet, games are so big nowadays, is that gain really worth over the closure of the other?
Its a sad day indeed.
So this is how it ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.
Shame
Joe. You're incorrect. There's no physical games with simply the codes on the disc anymore.
THEY AREN'T EVEN GIVING YOU THE DISC ANYMORE.
They give you a PAPER CODE inside of the physical case.
the idea of microsoft points can stay dead. i remember when they put them in blitster packs lol
End of an era
Just to let you know, the COD classic is gone without any physical copy.
Screw Microsoft they should respect the Xbox 360. The last good console they made. I wish we could’ve of stop them from doing this. PS3’s market place is still up. Why can’t the 360 stay up. R.I.P old friend.
i Still play mines.
If there are any games you wanted that has not been made backwards compatible then go pirate the game like many do anyways, because you have had 18 years to buy the games you wanted from the 360 store, so pretending as if Microsoft doesn't care when they should have or could have shut that shit down 10 years ago is laughable.
Too many indie arcade games.... gone just like that fucking hell man! simple games made with real passion unlike major AAA to "AAAA"? dog shit live service trash pumped out now with DEI bull shit! but glad that 360 emulator going strong! *waits for boot lickers to want MS to kill it off as Sony ponies do with RPCS3* i'll be here for joe's video on all that too!
*PAIN SO MUCH PAIN!*
Do not worry because contrary to what reality might look like, physical versions of indie games do exist. Prodeus, Project Warlock, Forgive Me Father, Signalis, Anno Mutationem, Tales of Berseria, Scarlet Nexus, Crosscode, Hades, Grandblue Fantasy Relink, and Nights of Azure one and two all come to mind. I listed off these games, now it’s up to you to go and expand your horizons even further friend. So do just that and stay the hell away from triple A.
1v100 was goated 360 game
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Trillion dollar company, yet they can't keep the 360 marketplace indefinitely or at the very least re-release them on the newer consoles and PC. And before people give out their reasons for defending this, it's just excuses. For someone like Microsoft there's no excuses, or at the very least they didn't give us any alternative to play these apart from emulation. Let's bloat future PC's with AI like Copilot even though it's a terrible idea is good, but this apparently is just "unsustainable" for them, what a fucking joke.
There are real excuses, like TLS and SSL.
It's 2024 jailbreak your 360 already. Stop coping about a closed online store
Good times
Doritos crash course. ♥
oh well wont be missed 😂
Is it safe to say that, its time to pirate Xbox 360 games
You weirdos cry about everything.
So you are fine with a video game being lost to time? A video game, that people paid money for?
God youre young 😂😂😂😂 no wonder you still think pc is great
Because PC is great.
Let’s all say what we’re all thinking. They lied about backwards compatibility because they were so many great 360 games that never got a remake or remaster to the Xbox series X.