Phil Spencer Would "Love" To Keep Xbox 360 Games From Being Lost As Shutdown Looms

Cameron Koch
8/24/2023

Xbox boss Phil Spencer said the team at Xbox would "love to find solutions" in order to save the 220 non-backwards compatible games set to become unavailable for purchase once the Xbox 360 digital storefront shuts down next year.In a wide-ranging Eurogamer interview with Spencer at Gamescom, the CEO of Microsoft's gaming division discussed the recently announced Xbox 360 storefront shutdown and said he has the list of non-back compat games set to be lost in the shuffle "stapled" to his forehead. He said game preservation is "critical" to Team Xbox, and wants to ensure those games can remain playable in some form. That might simply mean those games are already available on PC, which he said is "the best ecosystem for game preservation" because it's not tied to an old piece of hardware."That's one thing, because it doesn't necessarily mean you need to be able to play it on the existing hardware that you bought 15 years ago, but preservation is front and center when all these decisions are made," Spencer said.Continue Reading at GameSpot...

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