In early 2010, Microsoft released the Xbox 360 Slim, which was a complete redesign of the Xbox 360 hardware. With this redesign came DVD drive security, which included a write-protected firmware chip.

Microsoft got itself in the middle of a physical disk war when it released an HD DVD movie disc add-on for the Xbox 360. The add-on eventually shut down due to the Blu-ray format winning that war.

The Xbox 360 game in questions hails from 2010, a year that treated gamers to the likes of Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2, God of War III, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood ...

Best of all, it allows for Xbox 360 games to be preserved instead of linked to an obsolete console. That said, much like with N64Recomp, it’s not a simple matter of running a tool over the PPC ...

On July 29, 2024, Xbox 360 owners will no longer be able to purchase “games, DLC, and other entertainment content” from the store on the console or the Xbox Marketplace website.

Best of all, it allows for Xbox 360 games to be preserved instead of linked to an obsolete ... also goes even deeper into a look at how the battle around the Xb0x 360’s DVD-ROM drive got heated.

All three original Xbox 360 units included both DVD/CD game disc playback as well as digital download to a connected — and specially formatted — hard drive. Xenia and CrossOver.

For the next 11 months, you can continue buying games from the Xbox 360 Store and Marketplace as always. But July 29, 2024 isn’t the Xbox 360's official retirement or anything.