Xbox Originals retire after 1 last update. Replaced by Games on Demand
Microsoft has announced that the “Xbox Originals” service, which allows you to purchase and download classic Xbox 1 games on your Xbox 360, is ending.
They will release one more game onto the service which will then finish off their portfolio (Microsoft’s words) before the service is over with.
However it will be soon replaced with the new Xbox 360 “Games on Demand” service. The Games on Demand service, true to its name, was announced at E3 2009 and will allow gamers to purchase and download full Xbox 360 games to their console.
No word though on whether additional Xbox 1 titles will continue to be added after the Games on Demand service goes online. From the sounds of it, it doesn’t look like it. As Microsoft will be concentrating more on adding “classic” Xbox 360 games to the service.
That doesn’t make me very happy though. The original Xbox had a metric ton of great titles and quite a few original and unique ones as well. Games like Gunvalkryie, Panzer Dragon Orta, Otogi 1 and 2 and Breakdown come immediately to mind, none of which are on the Xbox Originals service currently.
In fact there are only 29 games currently on the Xbox Originals service, so the one additional title will round it off at 30.
Here is the near-final list of Xbox Originals now available for download on Xbox 360:
1. Black
2. BlowOut
3. Burnout 3: Takedown
4. Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
5. Destroy All Humans!
6. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
7. Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex
8. Fable
9. Fuzion Frenzy
10. Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows
11. Grabbed By the Ghoulies
12. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
13. Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
14. Halo: Combat Evolved
15. Indigo Prophecy
16. Intellivision Lives!
17. Jade Empire
18. Max Payne
19. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
20. Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
21. Ninja Gaiden Black
22. Psychonauts
23. Raze’s Hell
24. Sega Soccer Slam
25. Sid Meier’s Pirates!
26. Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
27. The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
28. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
29. Zapper – One Wicked Cricket!
30. Halo 2? . . . We’ll have to wait and see. [edit: I meant Halo 2 not 3, thanks David]
So what original Xbox 1 games do you wish they’d release for Xbox Originals?
Via IGN
19 June 2009 09:37mcjakeqcool
I am sorry, but I can not make a reply to this post without swearing, so I simply won’t make one. mcjakeqcool
19 June 2009 14:05david
i think you mean halo 2 in the last one right ?..
