Boring if you only play on Xbox :smugpepe:

MS supporting their games a little TOO well, Howling Peaks just came out in DECEMBER

You are wrong here. The amount of grinding required for the base P5 is offset by a ton of new content added in Royal. It took around 95 hours for me to complete vanilla P5 and 120 to complete P5R. (And I'm not even taking into consideration that vanilla P5 was my first Persona game so I needed some time to get around gameplay mechanics). The one advice I would give is that if they indeed port vanilla P5 better not waste your time on it because Royal is so much better and there is non way to transfer your progress.

100% is the time needed for Platinum as you suggested and it really is easier done in Royal because it can be done in a single play through. The hardest achievements like complete Persona compendium and max out all relationships are not present in Royal. These achievements require to beat the game twice unless you are following a guide (then it can be done right after beating the first boss in the second play through)

Damn one might think Minecraft is a game for kids but fighting Wither was no joke. Took a long time to find 3 skulls to spawn it and make Nether gear. We also built 10 iron golems to help with the fight. My younger kid was crying and wife raging through the battle but we killed it alright.

Now to gather a shitload of gold ore...

Still no FF7re Xbox announcement but PC was announced.

This BS gives MS more reason to keep all future Bethesda titles off PlayStation and keep it as console exclusive, Phil Spencer better deliver the goods.

Man SE is disgusting. They know FF does decent on Xbox but instead of trying to build the community more on Xbox they leverage it in timed deals for Sony for a quick cash in. I’m so over them I’d rather support Bamco, Capcom, or Sega.

Played three missions in Desperados III and I gotta say it's pretty good.
I was doubtful since it's from the same devs as Shadow Tactics which I checked out briefly and didn't like much. Genre is the same as well.
Might have to check it out again after I'm done with Desperados.

This all lines up with the long post I had a couple of days ago about future of FF franchise on Xbox. To be fair, it's hard to blame Square on this because they are a business company first. 1m sales can look good if you don't take into the account that it was around 15% of all console sales, which is quite low. So, going back to that my old post, I think that the decision was made because of poor FFXV sales. If you take into consideration the exclusivity deal for FF7R and FF16, the split between Xbox and PS will be even worse. Like, probably less than 1m sales and less than 10%. If Square can easily cover 95% of potential Final Fantasy audience by just releasing the games on PS and PC, then why even bother with Xbox versions. You also can add the simple fact that Microsoft has shown that they are willing to pay to put Final Fantasy games straight into GamePass a couple years later, so Square are not wrong to wait for an offer. The ideal business model - get Sony's money for time exclusivity. Sell 95% potential copies on PS/PC and then take money from MS to put the games straight onto GamePass 2-3 years later when they become dirt cheap anyway. 

I understand the frustration with Square's business practices, but to be honest I think that in this case the anger should be aimed not at Square but at Xbox user base which is sadly not willing to buy Final Fantasy games and support the franchise on the platform.