{"id":162670,"date":"2016-04-21T07:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T05:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=162670"},"modified":"2016-04-21T07:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T05:25:02","slug":"microsoft-stops-making-the-xbox-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/162670-microsoft-stops-making-the-xbox-360.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft stops making the Xbox 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xbox.com\/2016\/04\/20\/xbox-360-celebrating-10-years\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft has decided to stop manufacturing Xbox 360 consoles<\/strong><\/a>, but will continue to sell existing inventory, with availability varying by country.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the Xbox 360 turned 10 in November 2015, making it one of the most successful gaming platforms ever.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said there are still many active Xbox 360 gamers, which means it will continue to support the platform in multiple ways.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xbox Live, including online multiplayer gaming and parties; access to apps; Games with Gold; and Deals with Gold will be supported.<\/li>\n<li>Xbox Live servers that support Xbox 360 services will remain active.<\/li>\n<li>Gamers will be able to buy over 4,000 Xbox 360 games or Xbox 360 accessories\u00a0while stocks last.<\/li>\n<li>Xbox 360 hardware will be supported at xbox.com\/support.<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One Backward Compatibility remains active.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI want to personally thank the Xbox community who brought so much passion and creativity to the Xbox 360,\u201d said head of Xbox, Phil Spencer.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on gaming<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/162226-new-playstation-4-5-specifications-revealed-report.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New PlayStation 4.5 specifications revealed: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/161802-minecraft-education-edition-here-in-june.html\">Minecraft: Education Edition here in June<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/161692-free-games-for-samsung-gear-vr-owners-in-south-africa.html\">Free games for Samsung Gear VR owners in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will stop manufacturing Xbox 360 consoles, but will continue to sell existing inventory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":162672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36,123,4670],"class_list":["post-162670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162676,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162670\/revisions\/162676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}