Xbox 360 2K Games Have a Bizarre Restriction on New Xbox Consoles
Xbox gamers have noticed that a function of 2K Games originally released on the Xbox 360 is inaccessible. This unusual restriction seems intentional on the publisher’s part and does not seem to apply to any other Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One or Xbox Series X/S.
A subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, 2K Games is known for popular franchises like BioShock, Borderlands, Civilization, XCOM, Mafia, and its various sports titles. The publisher’s Xbox 360 games also include some of the above, along with games like Spec-Ops: The Line, The Darkness series, and Duke Nukem Forever.
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Fans have discovered they can’t take screenshots of any 2K Games that originally released on the Xbox 360. It’s unclear when or why 2K stopped allowing players to take screenshots of backward-compatible Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. However, the strange restriction went viral after gaming blogger OKthanksgames observed that players can’t take screenshots of the 2007 game The Darkness. Reddit users initially attributed this restriction to copyright issues caused by an in-game TV playing the entirety of the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. However, Twitch streamer and YouTuber SaneIntolerant soon discovered that players couldn’t take screenshots of any 2K Xbox 360 games.
He shared images of screenshot error messages on Mafia 2, Duke Nukem Forever, Spec-Ops: The Line, and The Darkness 2. The restriction also appears to be unique to Xbox 360 games published by 2K. Players get a similar error message when taking screenshots of Konami games, but that restriction only applies to sharing the screenshots over Xbox Live.
While this odd restriction only recently garnered attention online, it’s not a new policy from 2K Games. A
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