Xbox 360 discontinued, but Microsoft will keep selling and supporting it

After more than ten years in production, the Xbox 360 has come full circle. Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft will cease production on the hardy little last-gen console in a post to the🐼

"Xbox 360 means a lot to everyone in Microꦏsoft," Spencer wrote. "And while we’ve had an amazing run, the realities of manufacturing a product over a decade old are starting to creep up on us. Which is why we have made the decision to stop ma꧋nufacturing new Xbox 360 consoles. We will continue to sell existing inventory of Xbox 360 consoles, with availability varying by country."

After that incredibly awkward MTV𓆏𒐪 reveal event, who would've thought it would all turn out so well?

Services will continue for Xbox 360 despite the discontinuation, including Xbox Live multiplayer, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Games with Gold (which will also be 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:backwards compatible on Xbox One), and the digital store. It stands to reason that Microsoft will pull the plug on them at some point, but it doesn't look like you should worry about that for the foreseeable f🎃uture. 

Spencer also dropped a few impressive tidbits about the Xbox 360's illustrious career, including the fact that more than 78 billion hours were spent g꧒aming on the system and 25 billion hours were spent in apps such as Netflix. Most importantly of all, Xbox 360 foreve♌r quantified our gaming experiences with the much-mimicked Achievements: players earned 27 billion of them on the system.

Meanwhile, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:rumored hardware upgrades make it sound like the Xbox One as weꦛ know it may not last nearly as long as its predecessor - or at least not in t🐈he usual sense.

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