Xbox cloud saves were introduced back in the late days of the Xbox 360 era, but up until this point, using them for games on the console has required you to be an active Xbox Live Gold member.
Fortunately, all of that is going away in conjunction with the release of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S this November, so everyone will be able to transfer their game saves to the new systems with ease.
"For those of you still enjoying Xbox 360, cloud saves will soon be free to all Xbox 360 users, making transferring your favorite games to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S even easier."
There are currently nearly 600 Xbox 360 games that are backwards compatible with the Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, and Microsoft recently noted that it's "investigating" adding more in the future.
Pleased with this news? Will you be making use of it? Let us know in the comments.
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This makes sense if MP is going free.
And it's good news in its own right.
This could be another sign that Microsoft is planning to phase out Xbox Live Gold. In any case, this is great news!
Man. Now I need to log on to my 360 and dig it out!
I had assumed they were free after BC was added to Xbox One, since cloud saves for Xbox One were free. I never really got a chance to check. I only moved about 5 or 6 games to the cloud to use on Xbox One and last time I played them, I had gold. (Which was about 4 years ago)
@Richnj "This makes sense if MP is going free".
Multiplayer is not going free, that's just a rumour, and this decision is not related to it. This move is for Xbox 360 owners that are going to upgrade to Series X/S and skipped Xbox One because 360 cloud save is already free on Xbox One.
@BlueOcean I can't imagine that the population of those that skipped xbox one, and either went to PS or Switch, but still own and have their 360 library, ready to upload and transfer to the xbox series, but also don't pay for XBL, is that large.
Though if MP was to go free, that means that 360 games also need to be free to BC. That means that 360 MP needs to be free. That only leaves 360 cloud saves as the odd thing out. Making them free also would unify the system.
If it was just to give 360 players a free chance to move saves, then why not do it for xbox one owners?.
For me, free MP makes more sense for how and why MS has decided that after all these years, they now need to make 360 cloud saves free.
I'm interested to see if my backwards compatible Alan Wake save game on the Xbox One X will transfer to the 360 when I play it next week
I'm jumping into Xbox with this gen. Do I get cloud saves without Gold or will I need to buy that as well? I just subscribed to GamePass as well.
Nice to see 360 love. I always have Gold so this isn't gonna affect me too much but it's nice we are getting it this late in the game nonetheless
@Richnj "If it was just to give 360 players a free chance to move saves, then why not do it for xbox one owners?"
Because Xbox One owners already have their Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One save files on the cloud for free, it's just the Xbox 360 owners that don't. There are many people saying on Pure Xbox and Nintendo Life that they skipped Xbox One and are coming back to Xbox with a Series X/S. If they connect their Xbox 360 consoles to the internet just once they will automatically recover their saves files on Series X/S.
@IsThatATitleist3 Yes, you will get cloud saves whether you are subscribed to Gold, Game Pass or none.
@IsThatATitleist3 You're fine, they're completely free these days
@AJDarkstar That's odd....all of my 360 saves worked fine on the 1X. And I hadn't even touched them for many years.
@NEStalgia They are part of the mysterious Xbox issues reported by non-Xbox players that "hope" that future Xbox consoles won't have 😂.
Even without free multiplayer this is an excellent move. I recall using an old 360 and was annoyed to remember cloud saves were not always free, in contrast to the Xbone.
@AJDarkstar ahh, early bc. That's probably the difference!
@Richnj I skipped the PS3. Got a PS4. Still have my PS2 games though.
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