It’s the end of a monumental era of console gaming, as Microsoft confirmed that it discontinued all production of Xbox One S units a while back and has been selling out the remainder of the product.
“To focus on production of Xbox Series X / S, we stopped production for all Xbox One consoles by the end of 2020,” a Microsoft representative said. The original Xbox One released back in 2013 and was followed by a few iterations: the Xbox One S (2016), the Xbox One X (2017), and the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition (2019).
And if that’s not enough to get a twinge of nostalgic sadness going in your soul, it’s been brought to our attention that Microsoft also took the Halo 3 Xbox 360 servers offline yesterday. Those servers had been online since 2007, when Halo 3 came onto the scene.
September 25, 2007 –
Halo 3 was released. Millions of people were online. The population map was lit up showing the locations of everyone playing.January 13, 2022 –
The Halo 3 Xbox 360 servers have been brought offline. The population map is finally dark.End of an era. pic.twitter.com/scBRAyvgJ1
— Jack “CouRage” Dunlop (@CouRageJD) January 13, 2022
