Xbox Live Marketplace rebranded as Xbox Games Store

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The Xbox Live Marketplace has a new name to go with its brand new console: the Xbox Games Store. As visible on the Xbox homepage, the Xbox 360's online marketplace was rebranded this week ahead of the Xbox One's launch in November.

When approached to confirm the rebranding, a Microsoft spokesperson told Joystiq, "That's right, [Xbox Live Marketplace] is now called the Xbox Games Store, and will sit alongside the Xbox Music Store and Xbox Video Store. This is to make it easier for consumers to find content both on Xbox 360 today and Xbox One when it launches in November."

Given all the pre-Xbox One streamlining going on, including the switch to real-world currency on Xbox Live, a new moniker for the Xbox 360's online marketplace (and soon to be the Xbox One's) is not a big surprise and maybe not the biggest news either. Still, it does mean after nearly eight years we have to say sayonara to Xbox Live Marketplace, a name that sort of rolled off the tongue in an after-eight-years-it-really-should way.

Posted: Aug 30, 2013 4:20 pm
Related Forum: Xbox Forum

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/30/xbox-live-marketplace-rebranded-as-xbox-games-store/

Comments

KurumuPosted: Fri. Aug 30, 2013

XxNuclearxX Not really a bif deal they should make XBL free tho

I hope you can realize that if Xbox Live was free that then the Xbox 360/One would not be able to pay for a lot of the extra stuff they are doing with the console. So when you put 60$ into Live just remember your money IS helping better YOUR experience.

EnvelopePosted: Fri. Aug 30, 2013

Idk they should keep things the same.

SanyoPosted: Fri. Aug 30, 2013

Not really a bif deal they should make XBL free tho

EvoVIIIPosted: Fri. Aug 30, 2013

Old one sounded better but oh well not that big of a deal.

LycanthropyPosted: Fri. Aug 30, 2013

old name sounded better

CokesPosted: Fri. Aug 30, 2013

I like the old one better.

OasisPosted: Fri. Aug 30, 2013

Will still refer to it as the marketplace. Just habbit.

-CPPosted: Fri. Aug 30, 2013

Xbox LIVE Marketplace was so much better....

ImGiggsPosted: Fri. Aug 30, 2013

i dont mind tbh does the same job

SkreamiesPosted: Fri. Aug 30, 2013

I no not like this. Why? Well when you brand something 'game store' to me and many others it labels it as something which only sells games. Unlike 'games store', the 'marketplace' name gives you a whole variety of things (Like going to a marketplace in your local town, where you can pick up fruit, vegetables & fish etc..) Marketplace to me sound like it's giving a bigger variety, while 'game store' just labels it one thing.

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