"despite its age" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to express the fact that something continues to be relevant or perform some task well despite its age or length of time that has passed since it was produced. For example, "Despite its age, this car can still accelerate to high speeds quickly."
Despite its age ("it's the oldest track on the record," he told THUMP), the cut sounds surprisingly current, as if it was ahead of its time then, and is now able to fully hit its stride.
The magazine also listed it as the best Nintendo Entertainment System video game ever created, stating that it was fun despite its age and it showed them new ways to do things in the genre such as hidden dungeons and its various weapons.
Despite its age, it's going strong.
Despite its age it's still a useful read for charity leaders.
"The Physiology of Taste," by Brillat-Savarin, is his favorite because, despite its age, it is still relevant.
Despite its age, it has been the most widely grown cultivar in Japan for more than 35 years, making it the most important rice for the Japanese people.
Here is an adventure in steel and concrete, a building - despite its age-old purpose - like no other.
But despite its ageing visuals, for many the game offers a flashback to childhood days, clustered around a TV beside friends or family.
The group meets Sundays at New York-based co-working space, Alley NYC, and despite its young age, it has already grown to around 550 members, with 30 or so showing up at each weekly session.
We demonstrate that the oceanic island of Bermuda, despite its young age (no more than two million years) and history of extreme changes in available habitat, harbors the last representative of one of the earliest North American lineages of Plestiodon that diverged ∼16 million years ago.
Despite its advanced age, the Vixen is a smooth flight, especially when you quietly glide on a clean straightaway.
