Xbox sunsetting a function you in all probability forgot about

In case you have a more recent Xbox Avatar, their days are sadly restricted.

Microsoft has introduced that on January ninth, 2025, the Xbox Avatar Editor app will not be out there on Xbox consoles or PCs. This implies Xbox is formally saying goodbye to its up to date Avatar program, and gamers will be unable to entry their Xbox Avatars anymore.

“As a consequence of low engagement and our shift in focus in the direction of delivering different participant experiences, the Xbox Avatar Editor app will not be out there,” Microsoft mentioned on a Xbox support page.

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Your Xbox360 Avatar will stay on

Microsoft is simply eliminating its newer Avatars, not its older ones

In 2018, Microsoft launched a brand new Avatar app which gave gamers higher methods to precise themselves of their Xbox Avatar. Microsoft is simply shutting down its newer Xbox Avatar Editor app, not its outdated one known as Xbox Authentic Avatars.

Microsoft first launched its Avatar program in 2008 on the Xbox360, and people avatars did carry over to the Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S consoles, and PC by way of the Xbox Authentic Avatars app. Microsoft is simply shutting down it is latest Xbox Avatar program. The outdated one will nonetheless be alive. Which means should you nonetheless have an Xbox360, you possibly can customise your authentic avatar on there and use them in Xbox360 video games that function Xbox Authentic Avatars, like my all-time favourite Doritos Crash Course.

If you wish to use your new Xbox Avatar as your gamerpic, you may should replace it earlier than the Xbox Avatar Editor app is gone subsequent yr. For those who made any Xbox Avatar purchases from November 1st, 2023, by January ninth, 2025, you can be refunded by Microsoft to your authentic fee methodology when this system sunsets. I forgot Microsoft’s new Xbox Avatar program existed. Though it is unhappy to see it go, I am glad to see the Xbox360 avatar stay on for nostalgia functions.

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