The recent update to the Xbox 360, a console nearly 20 years old, addresses a known issue with game thumbnails and box art stretching. However, it comes at the cost of introducing two advertisements for the Xbox Series X and Series S on the home screen, complete with a QR code. This decision has drawn criticism, highlighting a perceived desperation from Xbox in marketing their newer consoles through an aging platform, despite the nature of the fixes being appreciated by some players.
While it's nice that Xbox fixed a strange graphical bug that’s been a problem ever since Microsoft killed the Xbox 360’s servers in July 2024, it still feels really desperate of the company to shove new ads into the aging machine's dashboard two decades later.
Players on the Xbox 360 subreddit shared news that their old consoles looked a bit different when they booted them up. The update fixed an issue with game thumbnails.
Xbox wanted these ads to be something they don't have to update for a long time, if ever, so they just slapped a QR code on the dashboard.
It's less nice that the console now has more ads on it; two different ads for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on the home dashboard.
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