I’m willing to bet most players don’t have an Xbox 360 still hooked up to their living room TV, and if I’m being honest, I don’t blame them. I mean, the fact that the console’s digital marketplace shuts down today might be reason enough for those of you who’ve long since traded in their physical games, but it also looks a bit scrappy on modern TVs. At least, it will if you just plug it straight in, which is why I play all of my favorite seventh-gen adventures using a handy upscaler, and I now don’t think I could use Microsoft’s console without it.
I promise that I'm trying to avoid referring to the Xbox 360 as one of the best retro consoles, but in a sense, the 2000s platform is suffering the same fate as old-school systems. Sure, you can still use it with the best gaming TV options today thanks to its HDMI cable abilities, but it’s far from contemporary performance-wise. Low frame rates and aliasing plague the system with visuals that modern system owners and PC players will struggle with, and while I don’t have a remedy for the former, there are certainly ways to smooth things out.
