Microsoft Updates Xbox 360, Adds Xbox Series X/S Adverts

There's a marque caller update for your Xbox console — but astir apt not the 1 you're expecting.

If you inactive person an Xbox 360 plugged in, Microsoft has issued a caller strategy spot that makes a mates of tweaks to the aging console's main dashboard — astir notably, the summation of a large advert for Xbox Series X/S.

Microsoft present seems keen for anyone inactive utilizing an Xbox 360 to permission the classical console behind, with adverts showing the company's scope of Xbox Series X/S models alongside the proposition that users "upgrade today" to "experience next-gen performance." Shouldn't that technically beryllium next-next-gen?

The update adjacent provides a useful QR codification to scan, truthful you tin rapidly load up the Microsoft Store and browse the company's recently-increased console prices.

Microsoft yet unopen down the Xbox 360's Marketplace past year, stripping retired Xbox 360 dashboard elements linked to the store successful the process. Today's update makes the full happening look a small neater.

Happy to instrumentality with the Xbox 360? The update besides includes a invited hole for the console's main crippled tile, which antecedently displayed stretched artwork.

Xbox 360 turns the ripe aged property of 20 aboriginal this year, having primitively launched connected November 22, 2005. But portion Microsoft has agelong since moved connected from the console, it's seemingly alert determination are inactive immoderate owners with the seasoned console plugged in.

Response to the astonishment update has been affirmative for those inactive making usage of their Xbox 360 consoles. "Finally it looks better!" wrote 1 instrumentality connected reddit. "At slightest it doesn’t look depressing anymore," wrote another.

"I had to leap connected and spot if myself," wrote a 3rd user. "It is wherefore I emotion Xbox. They could person easy near america with a s****y dashboard. But they listened. They didn’t person to bash it but they did."

Earlier this month, Xbox lifted the lid connected the adjacent Xbox-branded spot of hardware, the handheld Xbox Ally X from Asus, and here's everything you request to know. It's besides moving connected marque new, next-gen consoles, though we don't person a merchandise model yet.

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