Phil Spencer Would “Love” To Keep Xbox 360 Games From Being Lost As Shutdown Looms
Xbox employer Phil Spencer stated the group at Xbox would “enjoy to find options” in order to save the 220 non-backwards compatible video games set to end up being not available for purchase when the Xbox 360 digital storefront closes down next year.
In a comprehensive Eurogamer interview with Spencer at Gamescom, the CEO of Microsoft’s gaming division discussed the recently revealed Xbox 360 store shutdown and said he has the list of non-back compat video games set to be lost in the shuffle “stapled” to his forehead. He stated video game conservation is “crucial” to Team Xbox, and wants to ensure those video games can remain playable in some kind. That may merely imply those games are currently offered on PC, which he stated is “the very best environment for video game preservation” due to the fact that it’s not tied to an old piece of hardware.
” That’s one thing, due to the fact that it doesn’t necessarily imply you require to be able to play it on the existing hardware that you purchased 15 years earlier, however conservation is front and center when all these choices are made,” Spencer stated.
For games that aren’t offered on PC, Spencer stated it was important to provide gamers a year’s notification on the Xbox 360 store shutdown so they can buy those titles. The Xbox 360 store will go offline on July 29, 2024. It doesn’t sound like there are any concrete strategies, Spencer did point out some solution might be found in the next year to keep those non-back compat-games readily available.
” And just know that the list of the 220 games is something that we see, and we would enjoy to discover options for those games to continue to play,” Spencer said.
When it comes to why Microsoft has decided to shut down the 360 shop, Spencer said it boiled down to the “lifespan of the hardware” and the number of users actually still playing and purchasing video games on the Xbox 360.
” It’s a quite little neighborhood,” Spencer stated., and nearly all the gamers have moved on, we’re like, ‘okay, we can focus our efforts on where the players are and where they can purchase.'”.
Numerous of the games set to end up being not available for purchase as soon as the 360 shop goes offline are digital-only titles that were part of what was once called Xbox Live Arcade. Some of those titles, like Supergiant’s Bastion, have actually been re-released on more modern Xbox hardware.
Video game material currently purchased on the Xbox 360 will still have the ability to be played and re-downloaded, and backward-compatible titles will still be available for purchase on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. The Xbox 360’s Microsoft Movies & TV app, nevertheless, will cease to work as soon as the 360 shop goes offline, with all the content acquired through the app becoming unattainable.