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acastcandream, do gaming w The Xbox 360 Store Will Close July 2024, But You Can Keep Playing Your Favorite Games - Xbox Wire

Once again begs the question why Nintendo shuts their stores down far sooner and makes it so you can’t re-download your old purchases, other than greed/laziness. 

Carter,

You can redownload your purchases on discontinued Nintendo platforms.

Schaedelbach,

Sure, but if I already got an old Super Mario game on the Wii or DS, I can’t just re-download it on my Switch. I have to pay for Nintendo Online to play the games. It would be easy for Nintendo to see if I already own a game in their library of available games and allow me to play them without paying for the subscription. They also could make more games they already released on older Eshops and make them playable. The emulator to play old Nintendo games is right there on the Switch! But yeah, why sell the stuff once if they can just rent it to us anew every couple of years.

conciselyverbose,

So their stuff there's no excuse.

Third party stuff they can't do without contracts.

Schaedelbach,

I don’t have an Xbox, so I don’t know if they only offer backwards compatibility for first party games? If no and they offer old third party games, then there is no excuse for Nintendo! If Xbox can do it, the biggest player on the console market can do it!

conciselyverbose,

I don't know if they do.

I do know that if they do, they explicitly had contracts in the past, when the games were published structured in a way that gives them permission to do so now. There is no way for Nintendo to do the same. They would have to negotiate new deals and it's not actually possible to do so for more than a small handful of third party games at absolute best.

Also, Microsoft is a far bigger company than Nintendo.

acastcandream,

You can redownload your purchases on discontinued Nintendo platforms.

You know, I thought you couldn’t on the Wii anymore, but apparently you can…? It’s unclear to me but seems I may have been mistaken when I said you can’t. TIL.

Carter,

It’s quite a common misconception. The Wii Shop channel still works for downloading previously purchases titles for example.

ampersandrew,
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It's not laziness. Why sell you the games when they can exclusively rent them to you instead?

Carter, do gaming w The Xbox 360 Store Will Close July 2024, But You Can Keep Playing Your Favorite Games - Xbox Wire

Will this include backwards compatible titles o current systems I wonder?

muddybulldog,

BC titles remain available through the current store.

JackbyDev, do gaming w The Xbox 360 Store Will Close July 2024, But You Can Keep Playing Your Favorite Games - Xbox Wire

Come August 2024 I will try to get my old 360 up and running and see if it has Uno.

shortypig, do games w Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Sea of Stars, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Gris, and Firewatch

Gris should not be missed if you’ve never played it before!

chase_what_matters,

Agreed!

Katana314,

It was on Game pass before, and I kinda did skip it because I felt like I had played multiple “processing grief” video games, and didn’t like the idea of doing it in a formless world of colors rather than around some kind of deliberate, recognizable world theme. There’s such a thing as being too artsy and abstract.

twistedtxb, do games w Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Sea of Stars, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Gris, and Firewatch
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Weird, Firewatch was on GP like two months ago.

EarthlingHazard,

It’s pretty common for some games to leave and then return again to game pass. Probably has to do with licensing terms

ShinetheMoment, do games w Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Sea of Stars, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Gris, and Firewatch

Firewatch has been on my list since forever! So glad that I’ll finally get to play it!

OverfedRaccoon, do games w Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Sea of Stars, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Gris, and Firewatch

I’m really looking forward to Sea of Stars. I’m not even big on turn-based RPGs, save for a few exceptions, but it’s really speaking to me. Not sure if it scratches a nostalgia itch or if it’s the gorgeous art, but I’m into it.

CIWS-30, do gaming w Final Fantasy XIV Online is Coming to Xbox Series X|S in Spring 2024 - Xbox Wire

That sounds good, but I hope they tweak the default controller scheme to make it more intuitive. Last time I tried using a controller, it was a terrible experience, and it was just easier to use the mouse and keyboard. They could learn a thing or two from PSO2 and PSO2 NGS, which at the very least, has a decent controller scheme.

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