It has been announced that 40 games are to be delisted from the Xbox 360 Marketplace on February 7th, 2023 – including Sega XBLA offerings Daytona USA and Jet Set Radio (thanks, Pure Xbox).
Here's the statement from Microsoft:
“Beginning on February 7, 2023, a limited set of games, add-ons, and in-game content will no longer be purchasable in select markets via the Xbox 360 Store. These titles will no longer be purchasable on the Xbox 360 Store only, and titles that are available to be purchased on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S Stores will remain purchasable. You will still be able to play discs or previously downloaded games on your Xbox 360 and modern consoles if they are backwards compatible titles."
The majority of the games included in this cull can still be purchased on modern Xbox hardware thanks to the wonders of backwards compatibility – but, in the case of the two Sega games (and some others, which we'll come to in a second), it's not quite that simple.
While you can play both of them on your Xbox One, Series X and Series S, you need to have purchased them on an Xbox 360 beforehand, as they don't appear on the digital storefront for the more modern Xbox systems. There's a handy guide here on Pure Xbox which explains the whole process.
Here's the full list of what's being delisted on Xbox 360 in the US:
- Aegis Wing
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
- Assassin's Creed III
- 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: DBImpact
- 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
Here are the titles which are impacted by the delisting and will not be available for purchase beyond the 7th:
- Blood of the Werewolf
- Counter-Strike: GO
- DAYTONA USA
- Defense Grid
- 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
- The Orange Box
If you haven't purchased any of these games on your Xbox 360 yet, then we'd highly recommend you do so before the 7th, or you won't be able to play them on your current Xbox console.