Finished fourth game this year which is Danganronpa V3. Contrary to popular opinion, I found this series getting better and better with each entry and V3 being the best game out there. Yes, the ending is a bit controversial, but I was more disappointed with the ending in 2 so I was already prepared that I can't really take this series seriously before jumping into V3. Endings don't really matter much tho IMO, as characters, murder plots and class trials is what is making this series enjoyable.

As for the previous three games - it was a half-year Persona marathon which started with 5 back in October last year when P5R came out. Not much to say, it was great to replay all these games now on Xbox. Persona 3 is still the best one in terms of story and characters. But 260 floor in Tartarus... This game indeed needs a remake, so hopefully the rumours are true. At the same time, remaking such well established great games is not an easy task either. Look at what Square Enix has done to FF7. I'm still a bit salty that they decided to port P3P over FES as well. P3P doesn't bring that many advantages over FES. And I'd rather have FES over it.

Not sure what to play next... Maybe will get back to some Switch backlog in the mean time. And then will take a small break from gaming anyway soon until around Xbox showcase. Hopefully, there will be some games announced to be coming soon. Otherwise, the only next game on Xbox I can think of is the latest Star Ocean which I bought during golden week sale. Or maybe I'll replay Valkyrie Chronicles 4 (one of the best games of last gen) which was sold at 5$, so I double dipped digitally in addition to day one physical copy.

Take Two or EA won't accept money hats for their major franchises

Really don't get why there's still panic over that BioShock 4 rumour still when it already started off incredibly weak and then one of the sources changed their mind on its exclusivity multiple times.

I was just saying this, because usually when we talk about Japanese developers, we mean certain genres, that are lacking on Xbox. Not only JRPGs, but also VNs, strategy games, rhythm games, shooters (bullet hell), etc. Kojima, FromSoft, maybe other developers, they are not making games that gameplay-wise are not possible to make by Western devs or the games unlike most of the genres that I mentioned. So it's not worthy to being Kojima or FromSoft into discussion here. Yes, Kojima is a very talented and unique developer. A Hideo Kojima game is a Hideo Kojima game. But because he is a man brand himself, he knows that he can be successful on any platform. And btw, we are yet to see what scale his Xbox game has. Is it a huge game like Death Stranding which he did with PlayStation or something a lot smaller?

Less than 20 days eh?

Gonna be the longest 20 days of my life! 

Not if you playing the GOTY/GOTG Tears of the Kingdom.

One of the biggest 3rd party publishers can't release on multiple platforms... Time to close up shop. This is sad. Sony needs to put them out of their misery and buy them out. Sucks to be Nintendo. 

Which game is being discussed here?  The tweet is fully loading on my screen to click the link.

FF16.

Just reading that Final Fantasy tweet. I'm confused, aren't publishers the ones who typically have to go to the console maker to have their game on their system? Square is trying to make it sound like it's the other way around and the platform holders are the ones who have to pay THEM to have their games on whatever platform. Instead of what I assume is a standard practice of splitting revenue 70/30 (70% to the pub and 30% to the platform holder).