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Sealed Xbox 360 Game Found in Unexpected Location 14 Years After It First Launched
05.03.2024 - 16:47 / gamerant.com / Dane Enerio
A sealed copy of an Xbox 360 game was spotted in an unlikely location nearly 14 years after its launch. Microsoft ended production of the console in 2016, but the system and its many games are still pretty common sights.
Around 2,000 games were released on the legendary Xbox 360. Among these, some were titles designed for the Kinect, the motion sensing accessory for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One systems that allowed people to play without traditional controllers. While the Kinect was discontinued in 2017, the peripheral and the games that were designed to run on it can still be regularly spotted in public.
One Reddit user named football9510 discovered a sealed copy of Kinect Sports at a gas station nearly 14 years after the Xbox 360 title was released in late 2010. This was among the handful of titles that launched with the Kinect, alongside Kinect Adventures, Kinectimals, and the first Dance Central. Kinect Sports was developed by Rare, the veteran British game studio behind the Xbox Game Studios-published pirate adventure game Sea of Thieves that will get a PS5 release this April.
Replying to football9510's post on the Xbox subreddit, many community members shared their fond memories of Kinect Sports, which received above average reviews at launch. Others, meanwhile, pointed out that the game was worth little in terms of retail value these days. Funnily enough, football9510 revealed that they received the gas station copy of Kinect Sports for free when they asked for its price. In contrast, some of the rarest Xbox 360 games can go on sale for thousands of dollars if sold brand new.
Another person had a similar experience as football9510 when they discovered a Kinect in an unlikely place. Reddit user King_hack9 shared that they found a Kinect that was part of a CT machine, which some claimed was actually not that unusual of a sight considering that the peripheral was pretty advanced for its time and could be used for a variety of things. For example, many use Kinects to do motion capture, or mocap, on the cheap, according to one user.
Microsoft has not dabbled in accessories like the Kinect since it was killed off, and the current generation Xbox Series X/S consoles do not even support the Xbox 360-era peripheral. Sony had the similar PlayStation Eye, PlayStation Camera, and PlayStation Move for its systems, but the company's most prominent console accessories today are its line of virtual reality headsets. The latest release is the impressive Sony PlayStation VR2.
The Xbox 360 was Microsoft's successor to its original Xbox video game console. The seventh-generation device was built as a direct competitor to consoles like Sony's PS3 and Nintendo's Wii.
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