Microsoft has confirmed that it is going to be delisting a whopping 46 games from the Xbox 360 marketplace on Tuesday, February 7, and so anyone interested in purchasing the games digitally will want to make sure that they do so as soon as possible. While there are many conveniences that come with digital storefronts, there are also some unfortunate realities, with delisted games one of the most frustrating aspects of digital gaming.
The Xbox 360 originally launched in 2005, yet its digital marketplace is still active today. There aren't any new Xbox 360 games being released on the platform's marketplace, but gamers still have the opportunity to purchase games from it. Unfortunately for those still gaming on Xbox 360, 46 games will soon be unavailable to purchase from the Xbox 360 marketplace.
The 46 games being delisted from the Xbox 360 marketplace include multiple Assassin's Creed games, two Call of Duty titles, the original Dark Souls, both Left 4 Dead games, Mass Effect 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, and many others. The original Xbox game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 - The Sith Lords is also being delisted from the Xbox 360 marketplace come February 7. Now, the good news is that none of these games are being removed from the Xbox One or Xbox Series X marketplaces, so any of these titles that are backward compatible will still be available to purchase.
Xbox 360 Games Being Delisted
- Aegis Wing
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
- Assassin’s Creed 3
- Assassin’s Creed 4
- 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 2
- DAYTONA USA
- Defense Grid
- Eets: Chowdown
- Far Cry 2
- Final Fight: Double Impact
- 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: Knights of the Old Republic 2 - The Sith Lords
- The Orange Box
- The Raven Episode 1
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Something else that's softening the blow of this delisting quite a bit is the fact that many of these games have newer, enhanced versions readily available on modern hardware. Ubisoft has remastered and re-released the Assassin's Creed games that are getting the boot, and there's also a newer version of South Park: The Stick of Truth for fans to play as well. So in the grand scheme of things, these Xbox 360 games that are being delisted will not impact that many gamers.
However, there are some games listed here that are not available to play on modern Xbox consoles through backward compatibility or are otherwise unavailable on the newer marketplaces. This means that gamers will definitely want to purchase those titles through the Xbox 360 marketplace while they're still available. Pure Xbox has put together a list of games that are no longer going to be available in digital form on Xbox at all once the delisting happens: Blood of the Werewolf, Counter-Strike: GO, Daytona USA, Defense Grid, Eets: Chowdown, Final Fight: Double Impact, Iron Brigade, Jeremy McGrath's Offroad, Jet Set Radio, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Mutant Blobs Attack, Prince of Persia, R.U.S.E., Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co., Skate 2, Spelunky, and Valve's excellent The Orange Box are the impacted titles.
Even after the games are delisted, anyone that owns these titles will be able to re-download them as much as they like, so Xbox gamers shouldn't feel pressured to keep the titles installed on their hard drives.