Xbox 360 Marketplace Will Close In July 2024

Its the end of an era, Microsoft have announced that the Xbox 360 Marketplace will close on July 29th, 2024. This means that it will no longer be possible to purchase games or DLC on the Xbox 360.

It is estimated that around 220 digital only games will disappear when the Xbox 360 Marketplace closes, presuming any games that are backwards compatible on the Xbox One / Series are still available to purchase on newer consoles.

Digiex has hosted a lot of Xbox 360 demos and arcade games for well over 15 years now, including some popular early releases before wide availability on Xbox Live, including the Resident Evil 5 Demo, Left 4 Dead Demo, and the Duke Nukem Forever Demo.

Of course we have have a vast collection of Xbox 360 Content built up over the years by like minded people who found Digiex and helped to contribute.

Efforts have been underway for several years now to preserve all the content on the Xbox 360 Marketplace, not just the demos and arcade games. Between myself and a few other like minded people we estimate that vast majority of content has already been preserved, both by pooling our existing collections and a little trickery to download some already delisted content that still exists on the servers. So fear not, once the Marketplace closes for good this major part of gaming history will not be list for good, some way will be found to make this archive accessible to all.

Microsoft do state it will be possible to play and re-download previously purchased content and that Xbox Live support will continue for now on the Xbox 360, so its nice that one of my favourite consoles will still live on for now.

 

this means that we need to archive 220 digital games dlcs everything. i know the games cost but if you have more money and 1tb usb stick do it before its too late

 

Possibly a useful list for people to see if theirs anything you might still wish to purchase for your 360: https://www.trueachievements.com/games.aspx

Click "more filter options" in the top right:

Platform: Xbox 360
Dist. type: Digital only
Availability: Listed only

Xbox 360 games not backwards compatible on Xbox One: https://www.trueachievements.com/not-backwards-compatible/games/

Xbox 360 games playable on Xbox One / Series consoles: https://www.trueachievements.com/backwards-compatibility/games/

 

Xbox 360 digital only games that should still be listed on the Marketplace:

 

games that must be preserved are those "only-digital-exclusive", like The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and South Park: Ternoman's Revenge.

I've never seen a list of this category.

 

so...

I'm still confused about the legality and console/account banning that might occur here.

Let's say I use Digiex to download copies of games that I own and have purchased in the past on the 360, then copy them to a usb and boot them up - will the licensing pick up that it's 'mine' without issue? or will it/MS think that I'm tinkering with the games?

I would dearly like to pull down all of the DLC for the GH games that I've got, and ensure I've got copies of everything else I've purchased, but the purchase history route SUCKS....

Really appreciate anyone's thoughts on this. Thanks.

 

It would seem that I have asked this question before and @InsaneNutter answered it!

 

But... why? Is it that expensive to keep the Marketplace or they just want to force current users of 360 to One S?

 

I suspect someone at Microsoft has looked at the number of active users of the Xbox 360 marketplace and thought, "well its been 19 years, we can close it down now and not deal with licencing for legacy content".

Having browsed though the store recently so much content has already been removed, so many good arcade games that helped define that era are not even available, neither are DLC's for many popular games. If you recently picked up a 360 for the first time I think you'd kinda be disappointed with the state of the store now sadly.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, the xbox 360 store finally shutdown, you will be missed Xbox 360 Marketplace

This is how it looks like now:

 

The end of an era for sure and by far the best Xbox console ever made.

 

RIP XBAWX! (Now, how to jailbreak that sucker?)

 

Here guys some DLC cars for Kinect Joyride for Xbox 360. You can still redeem it on Xbox 360. I can confirm this by myself. (Not Xbox dot com or Xbox One/Series XS). Its still working. Get it while you can.

Kinect Joy Ride Cars DLC

Torq

2773P-WXTDP-MT32T-F2V6G-YR63Z

277YH-WYC4Y-3W3MG-C46JJ-3RVHZ

2793P-T293T-P2PXT-9RMTC-G2KJZ

279H9-FMX9C-R2C63-GTRK6-PGTWZ


Eisenberg

22422-64TPJ-7CXD9-KMJ7G-JQ9FZ

2243K-HQXYW-FMFJ3-WDQKJ-JTKKZ


Hammerhead

4G2JD-9KQ94-3KX6C-GHY7T-GW2HZ

4G2M4-7J43X-WP9QT-KK2PR-MRQPZ

4G2MP-JQ4RV-RKHTT-2CT27-Q2TTZ



Boucher

22V3K-CPM93-R3XGV-WRWVV-3Q4JZ

22W6V-VFX3H-CWRX9-J7D4F-4CQ7Z

22XC6-QCMYK-X4D7T-FDVH2-WQ6RZ

22YGD-CKXXV-H9PQ9-6PJR7-H36VZ

 

Hey,

Thanks for the codes.

I redeemed one of each:

Torq: 2773P-WXTDP-MT32T-F2V6G-YR63Z

Eisenberg: 22422-64TPJ-7CXD9-KMJ7G-JQ9FZ

Hammerhead: 4G2JD-9KQ94-3KX6C-GHY7T-GW2HZ

Boucher: 22V3K-CPM93-R3XGV-WRWVV-3Q4JZ

I can confirm they do redeem ok on the Xbox 360 dashboard, they didn't seem to on the Xbox website.

I still randomly use my Kinect and have the game, so these will get some use at some point

 

Ladies and gentlemen, the xbox 360 store finally shutdown, you will be missed Xbox 360 Marketplace

This is how it looks like now:
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Image credit: AllKeyShop.com
They actually changed it again during June 2025! Looks much nicer with less streched tiles but with a couple ads trying to promote the Series X/S. I'm not a massive fan of ads but the strecthed tiles (especially with game art) didn't look right. However it only seems to be affecting US locale for now, which is a shame. Hope they bring this to more locales!