Microsoft Announces Dates For The Final Two Xbox 360 Store Sales

Xbox does what Nintendoesnt! Jokes aside, this is really cool of them to do. I've already snagged a few bargains from the current sale, so I'm excited to see what the upcoming sales will entail!

I'll be waiting for these sales. The last few months I have been buying digital only xbox 360 games.

Big credit to Sony for keeping the PS3 and Vita storefronts up (after pushback) while Nintendo and Microsoft cast countless smaller, digital-only games into purgatory by closing their digital stores on 3DS, Wii U, and Xbox 360.

I'm not thrilled with the 360 store closing, but this is the way to do it. Celebrate those that supported it for almost 19 years! I've still got a couple to grab that currently have high price tags digitally.

I hope some of the DLC is going on sale. Some of games on sale had DLC that was like £10. I'm not gonna have time to play these games to find out if the DLC is worth getting.

It's nice they're giving the 360 store a last meal, but it doesn't undermine the fact that this was entirely Microsoft's choice to kill it. And they can work with these companies last minute to organize sales, but not to make more games Backwards or at the very least get the already BC ones relisted?

Would be nice to have more back compatibility from all 3 platforms, xbox by far having the most of course. Bring forward magna carta 2 cowards

Microsoft should do a "gone forever" section in the sales just to save me the effort of looking up which games are digital only and not backwards compatible.

Just wish I could play the dishwasher games😭😭😭

@ATaco best suggestions are:

https://www.trueachievements.com/forum/viewthread.aspx?tid=1491161

and

https://www.trueachievements.com/not-backwards-compatible/games

People not spending enough time and money whilst playing on their X360's through the 360 Store to keep the 360 store open. At least they have given people enough notification that the Store will be closing.

The 360 is NO longer in Production and no longer Actively supported by Microsoft. Those games ONLY run on an Xbox 360 - Hardware that's no longer for sale so MS receives 'nothing' from that to keep it open. Declining, if not practically non-existing (bar minor blips when sales are announced) money coming in from anything '360' related, to keep it open

Money better spent on the here and now, the future and the places where people are spending time/money...

If those games aren't playable 'today' on Hardware, blame publishers or devs. They 'own' them!! You can't buy Every game today on the PS3 store or Buy every game if own a PS2, a N64, a OG Xbox etc either - They had 'Physical' releases, but only made a certain number and don't make them anymore either so they're gone too.

The price of these, I bet that just covers any costs with nothing going to the publishers/devs....

Just a quick question, even though the stores on the 360 are closing, does that also include patches? I have a few games I bought that aren't BC, but one day I'm hoping to pick up a 360 to play them.

Kind reminder, 462 games are backwards compatible, unlike on the PS, Vita and Nintendo stores mentioned above that don't have any. Precisely, my only question is, what games in these sales are backwards compatible? Because you can buy any backwards compatible game on the Xbox 360 store using an internet browser (except Ridge Racer 6 outside USA, I assure you that) and get the game for Xbox One and Series S|X. I don't have an Xbox 360 and I don't want to miss anything that is backwards compatible and really worth getting. That could be your next guide @FraserG, the must-have backwards compatible games and those that are on sale. It should be popular. 🖱️🖱️🖱️

@Banjo- Just a friendly correction, the PS3 store is full of PS1, PS2, and PS3 digital titles. And all versions of PS3 can play virtually any PS1 disc, whilst the early models can read most PS2 discs. The Vita is able to play all PSP and PS1 digital titles. Meanwhile, on PS4 and 5, PS3 games are playable through streaming and a growing number of titles (PS1, PS2, PSP) are making their way from the PS3 store. Nice feature is if you bought the digital games on PS3 previously, they will be on your catalogue without needing to repurchase (once they've been added to the newer store, of course). It'd be great if Sony went back to their old ways and were able to move the entire PSN from PS3 so the servers can finally rest in peace.

Since Xbox is rumored to be increasing their backwards compatible library, it'd be great if they looked into the very first Xbox's catalogue. A very small portion was ever added in and Xbox ports were the most superior looking graphically in the PS2-Gamecube gen and there'd be an even bigger profit.

@InsaneWade I said Vita because it was mentioned above, but I was thinking of playing on PS4 onwards older games, because since PS4, the PS platform became more unified and availability is granted, because of 86x. Same for Xbox One and Series S|X, that are even more unified.

Few people have older consoles now, I mean, the original PS3 and earlier consoles. I thought that I could play older titles when I bought the PS4, but absolutely nothing, except for a very small and bad selection of PS2 titles introduced much later. No PS3, PS2 (except the small and bad selection released much later), PS1, Vita or PSP games on PS4/5. Are you saying that they are adding PS1, PS2 and PSP games now?

Streaming can't be considered backwards compatibility. Backwards compatibility sucks on PS, but if you have older consoles, like the original PS3 that was backwards compatible, not the later models, then you have something there. However, the original PS3 is not very reliable, like the original Xbox 360.

Most importantly, the Xbox backwards compatibility is available on modern consoles. I agree that it would be wonderful to have more original Xbox games as backwards compatible games, the best of their generation in technical terms, as you said. I can't argue about that.

When Microsoft explained every difficulty associated with backwards compatibility, it was also explained that the original Xbox games are easy to port because of the architecture of the first Xbox. There must be legal issues regarding some games, but the rest of them should be ported to Xbox One/Series S|X.

I really hope that more backwards compatible games are added and also more FPS Boost support.

@FraserG I thought that because Games with Gold were popular articles, backwards compatible deals were, too. It's fine since backwards compatible games are on the new store. In a sense, everything will be simpler after July. The best way to track deals are adding games to the wish list on the console store, in my experience.

As someone who only just joined the xbox ecosystem earlier this year i am a little confused by this as there are some older games id love to play that i have not gotten around to yet. If i see a game that was on the original xbox or 360 that is on the storefront of my series s will this be affected? Or is it just the store via the 360 console? Crimson Skies im looking at you.

Very cool. However, if you use a 360, you’ll soon need to use emulation to access soon to be delisted games. May as well go for it now.

@InsaneWade Unfortunately that's not entirely correct either. I was super excited to hear that our purchases from PS3 carried over. But when I went to go check online it turns out they don't. Our PS4 stuff does, but all PS1 and PS2 classics I bought on PS3 I have to buy again on PS5.
So they're not BC and more like remasters or ports. Very disappointing...

@Utena-mobile My purchases of Wild Arms, Wild Arms 2, Tekken 2, and Legend of Dragoon carried over from PS3 to PS5

@Banjo- I agree, when PS4 was announced to have no backward compatibility it was very disappointing. Since Sony were top tier with backwards compatibility with PS2 and PS3 that inspired Microsoft to provide the same for 360 (albeit limited) and now. Since 2022 they've been adding PS1/PSP classics monthly again. Majority have trophy support now. New PS2 games is on the rare side, I do think this is more in part with PS4's poor emulation since they have to release a PS4/PS5 version. Each game now has a rewind feature and some filters to help replicate playing them on an older monitor as intended.

PS3's streaming is on par with Xbox's investment for cloud gaming. My PS3 save files that were attached to my account showed up when I played on my PS5. Like when playing a 360 game, it showed the PS3 interface and I was able to play my MGS2 save (before it was removed in place of the new Master Collection) without any delays. I do see a PS3 emulator in the future, since those server blades (which are running off a whole room filled with multiple PS3s in the Sony office) will have to retire eventually. But I don't expect PS4 to ever have this since their emulation is poor already for PS1/PS2 titles (there's videos of people playing them through jailbreaking). Since PlayStation's been around a full generation longer than Xbox, their backwards compatibility library is already larger with just the PS1 and PS4 library. This is where I look to Xbox's allowing to upscale them to 1080p/4K, it would be amazing if they increased their library of the Xbox and 360 titles even more. Game preservation is very important since older consoles can't run forever without regular maintenance.

@Utena-mobile I had Legend of Dragoon, Medievil, Tekken 2, Toy Story, Jet Moto games, Resident Evil, to name a few on the PS3. Didn't have to rebuy them on my PS5 when they were added to the new store. Unless you're talking about the Squaresoft games, that unfortunately isn't a surprise since they chose to remaster instead of re-release. I'm sure there's more, mostly tied into the company that don't allow this, but it's definitely more on the majority side that allows this feature.

@FraserG I did suspect as much but nice to know for certain. Do like me some old school air combat!

@ManifoldCuriosity @InsaneWade
That's weird. If that's the case then I'm going to put in a support ticket or something because the store kept wanting to charge me money (and I have Legend of Dragoon and Siren purchased on my PS3).