BGR - I love all game consoles equally. My Xbox 360 is used equally as much as my PlayStation 3. The Wii — oh, I’ll just leave it at that. The current generation of consoles is all but over — 10-year life cycle be damned — and new consoles are rumored to be coming next fall. If not next fall, then in 2014.
Xbox 360 launched 18 years ago and was a generation-defining console that invited many people to jump into gaming for the first time and connect with friends around the world. We’re thrilled people continue playing their favorite Xbox 360 games on Xbox 360, or on newer consoles via Backward Compatibility for supported titles.
"we believe in game preservation"
Remember the media reaction when PlayStation wanted to shut down the PS3 store (but then kept it open)... where is that reaction here?
RIP Xbox 360 digital store and all its games.
It really grinds my gears that they are waiting till 10 days before closing to give the best discounts and the list as of now is 100 or less titles from the massive 360 library
I should have enough points by the weekend to get £25 credit off MS, (hardly ever spend money on xb1), might look at a few of these.
The Xbox 360 store was one of the only advantages the Xbox Series consoles had over the PS5. When I got my series X, I spent more playing Xbox 360 games vs current-gen Xbox games since that was the golden era for Xbox and several titles had enhancements such as 4k resolution and fps boost.
Closing this store will now only benefit the competition.
Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.
From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.
It's amazing how everyone consider's 70+ Million Sales a failure.
Anyway, Cannot wait for the PS4, will Pre-Order the day i they start taking it.
"well-informed Stephen Totilo, Editor-in-Chief of Kotaku"
Stopped reading there when has Kotaku ever been well informed?
What a craptastic article with bad info to boot ps3 and 360 both have 512 mb ram. Using multiplatform games to determine the power of the machine when God of war 3,Uncharted 1,2,3 blow everything on 360 away.
Raymond Wong i wouldnt quit my day job at Taco Bell.
ILL eventually get both but the question is which one first? hmmmmm
If the 360 rehash their exclusives with Halo and gears ill go with the ps3.
The majority of games have been creatively bankrupt, devs have repeatedly complained and praised the hardware and no one knows if the industry will or is crashing.
Nevermind that we've already gone through all this crap before. Kept calling the PS3 dead, the 360 the new king, and its only lead to arguments.
Can't wait for E3 gonna be really interesting to see the reveal of these 2 next gen consoles.