What you request to know

• Xbox precocious issued a bulletin connected its Xbox Live presumption leafage noting that immoderate Xbox 360 games volition beryllium removed from integer storefronts connected February 7, 2023. 
• Some of these games bash not person due store listings connected Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, contempt being backward compatible. 
• It shouldn't impact users who already ain these titles. 
• It remains to beryllium seen however this update could interaction store listings connected modern Xbox consoles with backward compatibility, and we've reached retired to Microsoft to clarify. 

The DRM statement rages on, with Microsoft gearing up to region a scope of classical games from merchantability arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week. 

Wario64 and different users connected reddit and Twitter noticed a work update connected Xbox Live, explaining that connected February 7th, Microsoft volition region dozens of games from assorted markets. Doubtless this revolves astir things similar expiring licenses, but what is unclear is however this could interaction Xbox 360 backward compatibility connected modern Xbox consoles. 

Indeed, immoderate of these games bash not person modern store listings connected Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S consoles. As such, it's unclear if definite games could beryllium removed from merchantability wholly erstwhile this update goes ahead. 

The database of games acceptable to beryllium removed is arsenic follows successful the U.S. For different regions, caput to this link (opens successful caller tab). 

• Aegis Wing 
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 
• Assassin's Creed® III 
• Assassin's Creed® IV 
• Assassin's Creed® Liberation HD 
• Blood of the Werewolf 
• Blue Dragon 
• Breakdown
• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 
• Call of Duty: Ghosts 
• Castle Crashers 
• Cloning Clyde 
• Counter-Strike: GO 
• Dark Souls™ 
• Darksiders II 
• DAYTONA USA 
• Defense Grid 
• Eets: Chowdown 
• Far Cry® 2 
• Final Fight: DblImpact 
• Iron Brigade 
• Jeremy McGrath's Offroad
• Jet Set Radio 
• Left 4 Dead
• Left 4 Dead 2 
• LIMBO 
• Lost Odyssey 
• Mass Effect 2 
• MONOPOLY DEAL 
• Mutant Blobs Attack 
• N+ 
• Outpost Kaloki X 
• Peggle ® 2 
• Phantom Breaker:Battle Grounds 
• Prince of Persia 
• R.U.S.E.
• Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co. 
• Skate 2 
• South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ 
• Spelunky 
• Splinter Cell Conviction
• Star Wars Battlefront
• Star Wars KOTOR 2 
• The Orange Box 
• The Raven Episode 1 
• The Witcher 2

We've reached retired to Microsoft to clarify however and erstwhile each crippled volition beryllium removed, and whether oregon not it could interaction the sizeable list of disposable Xbox backwards compatible titles presently connected offer. We fishy that the immense bulk of these games volition inactive beryllium disposable to acquisition connected Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S directly, but it remains unclear whether titles that haven't been decently updated for the caller strategy volition beryllium available. Some games are lone disposable arsenic a "Bundle," The Orange Box (opens successful caller tab) for example, and those bundles bash not presently person due store listings mapped retired connected the modern consoles. Other games similar DOOM 3 and Jet Set Radio bash not person a listing connected Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S contempt being backward compatible, owing to licence issues. 

Windows Central's Take

I'm often a immense proponent of integer purchasing, but situations similar this punctual america wherefore carnal discs are inactive important to connection consumers arsenic an option. Licensing issues, shuttered services, and closed companies tin pb to games being removed from sale, hindering crippled preservation efforts crossed the board. 

Microsoft is 1 of the fewer crippled companies that has been consenting to put truthful heavy successful ineligible video crippled preservation, either by emulation with the Xbox 360 backward compatibility emulator connected modern Xbox consoles oregon via afloat autochthonal ports. Microsoft precocious worked with Nintendo to bring Rare's GoldenEye to modern consoles, for example. License holders tin often beryllium greedy, oregon petty erstwhile it comes to availability. Digital games disappearing from Apple and Google mobile platforms is simply a regular occurrence, and I fishy we could spot akin from halfway consoles excessively successful the aboriginal if users don't propulsion backmost connected astatine slightest offering carnal discs arsenic an enactment moving forward. 

I'll beryllium definite to update this nonfiction with clarification from Microsoft if, and erstwhile we get it.