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The story
A thread titled “Hey Nintendo-boy, isn’t it about time you played some adult games?” (a jab using “Nishi-kun,” 5ch slang for Nintendo fans) kicked off a fight on 5ch’s console-wars board over what actually counts as a “game for adults.”
When some posters named gacha titles like Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail as “adult” games, they were met with pushback like “That’s rich coming from gacha whales” and “Eroge (adult visual novels) are way more grown-up than that.” The thread eventually spiraled into a broader debate over whether anyone has the right to judge other people’s hobbies at all.
What people said
Nobody plays Switch 2 on the train, so it's basically a platform where 'adult games' don't even exist.
That's a dead franchise anyway.
Real adults play Genshin, Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, Wuthering Waves.
Maybe graduate from being an unemployed guy glued to the console-wars board on a weekday morning?
Says the unemployed pig🐷 who's posted 1,491 times, ranked #39 in post count, lol
at an hour like this
wouldn't trash other people
by starting a thread lol
Play PlayStation and people just think, 'what kind of loser is this guy.'
Uh… what happened to the whole 'I totally have a gaming PC' story?
Wow, you're starting a whole thread just to worry about people you look down on lol
Some 'grown adult' you are.
while Sony's the one that slaps on the censorship.
And it's coming from the guys who do nothing but drop real money on gacha pulls.
Oh, just a bit of adult gaming.
Whether someone 'grows out of' gaming is for them to decide, not you. Butt out.
They get mocked because they can't grow out of it 🤗
What a fine grown-up you are.
Just admit PS games are 'the chosen ones' and be done with it.
Why can't you accept diversity?
Harping on people you disagree with —
some 'grown adult' you are.
Why does it bother you so much?
Shut-in otaku types are way too sensitive about other people's eyes and what everyone else is doing.
Nobody's even looking at you.
Marvel's clearly aimed at kids no matter how you slice it.
In Japan that's basically the same slot as Super Sentai or Kamen Rider.
Background and Key Points
This spat unfolded on 5ch’s “Hardware/Industry” board, better known by its nickname “console wars” (ネガキャン板), a forum that has hosted Nintendo-versus-Sony flame wars since the PlayStation-N64 rivalry of the 1990s. The slang matters: “Nishi-kun” mocks Nintendo fans as unserious, while “steibuta” (literally “Sony pig”) is the mirror-image insult for PlayStation loyalists — both are recurring characters in these threads, not new coinages. The genres name-checked also carry real weight in Japan specifically: gacha titles like Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail sit atop Japan’s mobile-gaming market, which has long outpaced console revenue there, largely because commuting salarymen play on phones during long train rides rather than carrying a Switch or PS5. Eroge (18+ visual novels) are a separate, decades-old PC gaming tradition in Japan with its own dedicated retailers and fanbase, distinct from mainstream console gaming entirely.
The thread never actually agrees on what “adult” is supposed to mean. Posters volley between three incompatible definitions: content maturity (violent or sexual games like GTA or eroge), format/lifestyle (whatever busy working adults realistically have time to play, i.e., mobile gacha), and pure snobbery (whichever platform’s fans get to look down on the others). No one resolves this because it’s not really a debate about games — it’s the same platform tribalism recycled with a new pretext, as several posters (9, 18, 41) point out by turning the accusation of immaturity back on the thread’s own creator.
What outside readers likely miss is that this isn’t a niche flare-up — Nintendo-vs-Sony point-scoring is one of 5ch’s most durable genres of thread, and the “who’s more mature” framing is just this cycle’s costume for it.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Console Wars)) thread “Hey Nintendo-boy, isn’t it about time you played some adult games???? Still all Mario and Kirby?.”
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