The Xbox 360 Store Shuts Down For Good Today

@ceeu: It is just a phrase, not meant to be taken as a sales argument.

@ceeu: did you hate that much having to purchase points to pay?

@RPGyte: I feel like we reflect too much on it. Almost daily, there is some news about how some game or machine now is 10 years old or 35 years old or 30 years old and so on. Or the "what feels like 20 years ago against what was actually 20 years ago" posts on social media.

We do not need even more reflecting.

Although i feel like Xbox 360 has been out of date and obsolete for a while and it is not until now i feel like it is really starting to get a little bit retro. I recently plugged in my Xbox 360 and replayed some old games. A different kind of nostalgia than NES and SNES because it reminds me of a different time, when i was kind of adult but still young and enjoyed games a lot. Xbox 360 and Ps3 was a nice age for games. Online and HD finally was available, wireless control pads was standard and graphics looked arguably a lot better than on the previous consoles. I would say some games from the Ps360 generation still looks quite okay now.. maybe not on a big tv but on a smaller tv the 720 p resolution is not a problem, and the graphics quality is quite nice. But newer games has better effects, lighting, ray tracing and so on. Open world games especially looks a bit dated on PS360.

Games are objectively better now, but playing them was sometimes more fun (and the pleasure of being new, with online and HD gaming) back then.

and microtransactions was for the most part not a thing yet. Microtransactions does not bother me so much, i just ignore them. But some people really dislike them now in many games.

@vgmkyle: Xbox has pretty much been "dead" to me for the last ten years but it's not because of this, I just don't care about their games and consoles anymore.

@vgmkyle: Because they closed down the 360 store after 19 years?

@Vodoo: I wish xbox one gamepads would work on Xbox 360 because they have nicer sticks and buttons i think.

@olddadgamer: I might not buy another game on disc for Xbox 360 but i kind of overbought games for it when i had a lot of money but not so much time or interest, and so i have kind of a semi huge library of unplayed 360 games to play.

On Xbox One, which is still my main console, i have not bought as many games, mostly played xbox game pass games or Games with gold games. Less money and the fact i do not actually play the games i buy all the time and end up with a pile of unplayed games are reasons behind why i have not bought as many games. And as a result i do not own quite a lot of big name games for Xbox One. Same thing with Playstation 3 and 4.

@olddadgamer: I lost my dishwasher games, but I assumed this was coming. I just hope Ska studios puts them on the Xbox backwards compatibility program one day.

@olddadgamer: Incorrect - many of the games never got a physical release, and are now gone forever, which is why so many people are unhappy about the closure. I applaud all the things that Microsoft have done to enable BC and game preservation, but the permanent loss of so many LIVE Arcade games which were never released on disc is a painful black mark for them.

@sebb: I think we've been playing online games long enough at this point to understand that they will eventually go away, and to accept that when we buy into them.

This is also just the store shutting down.

@sebb: How is it a waste? People pay/play because they enjoy it. Online communities for a game always die down after a year or two, so most games in 1-2 decades wouldn't have anyone online anyways.

@girlusocrazy: it is weird how it got that accolade with the RROD. I bought the black one that didn't have this problem. Xbox 360 wasn't perfect, but it was great nevertheless. The rivals mess-ups may helped... but when that doesn't help really :D?

@restatbonfire: Best in gaming? Close but, No.

It being part of the best generation in gaming? Arguable, but I would say yes.

Peak XBOX? YESSSSSSSS!!!!!

@shakana44: You can view your download history from the 360 itself, although you can't filter anything and if you scroll too fast it will crash. At least it IS an option.