Can you buy xbox 360 games on an XB1 with microsoft store credit?

Hello DatJimmyIsNotOk,

Thank you for posting here on the Xbox forums. We understand that you would like to use Microsoft store currency to purchase an Xbox 360 game through the Xbox one marketplace. Unfortunately, this is not possible. Please review this support article for further
information: Troubleshoot Xbox 360 Marketplace purchasing

"You can't use the money in your Microsoft account to purchase content from the Xbox 360 Marketplace. To resolve this issue, purchase the item
on your Xbox 360 console, where you can use your Microsoft account balance to make purchases."

Hope this helps!

It’s possible to buy xbox 360 games, i still have 360 games myself and i am still playing them. However, its probably eother the internet or the servers since everyone is on the xbox due to Covid-19.

The only way you can use store credit to buy backwards compatible games is to either have game pass, xbox live or ea access. Then when you find a game you really like,

Download the game

From the game's main menu go to the xbox live marketplace\xbox store\buy dlc (every game says something different and not every game has dlc)

Once you bring up the list of dlc the game itself should show up in the list for purchase although a very small number of games won't let you buy the game while playing the game you can only buy dlc

Press the A button to purchase

Wait for the confirm purchase screen to pop up

Don't click confirm, click on change payment options

Then your microsoft account balance should show up in the options

Pick the microsoft balance and now you should be able to buy backwards compatible games and dlc

The downside is you can only do this through the games and not the xbox store.

Purchasing is limited is BS. You can't buy the game on xb1 without a credit card on file or without a 360.

Hi there,

Thank you for coming to the forums today. I'd be happy to help.

The only games that you have to buy on xbox.com are backwards compatible games because games for 360 and before are still only sold in the 360 marketplace by going to
https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/. The store's are different and Microsoft account credit cannot be used to buy games or content from the 360 Marketplace. If you try to buy
the same game on an Xbox One console, it still will not let you because the console is emulating the marketplace so the same rules apply.

Other than that, all digital content in the Microsoft Store can be purchased using account credit.