Although the Xbox 360 store isn’t shutting down till next July, a handful of original Xbox games have already been delisted.
champions video game preservation, it was never likely that Microsoft would keep a digital storefront for a nearly 18-year-old console active forever.
The Xbox’s backwards compatibility library means most original Xbox and Xbox 360 games will remain available for purchase even after the shutdown, such as theIt’s been calculated that that at least 220 games will be lost once the store closes and some may never be seen again., although it admits that several of the listed games have since received re-releases or upgraded versions on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, as well as other platforms such as PlayStation and the Nintendo Switch.
Even so, that leaves a lot of digital-only Xbox games that will be lost to time and will only live on through customers who have bought them.from the Xbox 360 store in February? It seems a further eight – all of which released for the original Xbox – have been removed too.Sphinx And The Cursed MummyTom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora TomorrowAdmittedly, most of them are still available through other means.
The rest can be bought via Steam with the exception of Unreal Championship 2 and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, which is now only readily available through the PlayStation 3 store.
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