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The story
A new Sgt. Frog (Keroro Gunso) game, “Sgt. Frog ☆ Wacky TV Show — Operation: Get the Prize Money, Sir!”, has been announced, but it turns out the PS5 isn’t among the supported platforms.
On the forum, users who’d hoped it would be a “PS5 exclusive” came in for mockery, and the discussion spun off into debates over the physical release and the Steam version’s performance.
Sgt. Frog ☆ Wacky TV Show
— Operation: Get the Prize Money, Sir! —
Supported Platforms
Source: kerohacha.com / Original article here
What people said
It was the Switch crowd who wanted it, wasn't it 😄
Sounds like they're just putting on a brave face.
Say that to the Switch fanboy who started this thread:
"First new Keroro game since the PS2! 'Operation: Get the Prize Money, Sir!' announced! Is the hardware PS5?!"
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1787713041/
Physical sales matter most for the elementary/middle-school crowd, though…
Feels like they're only releasing it there out of pity.
Guess even the pity release didn't stretch to PS5 😭
Be glad, honestly — if it had come out, people would've called it "a kids' game," just like you always say about Switch, right?
Today of all days, "PS5 is handicapped" (a pun on the Switch-fan slur "Shou-chan," meaning "handicap") is spreading among the general public.
Of course they're in a good mood.
That's a little too desperate, don't you think.
Sour grapes, much?
lolololol
I actually kind of liked the Tales-style one.
and on top of that, the begging didn't even pay off.
Sad in two different ways 😭
but apparently even that cost isn't worth recouping.
If it's next year, physical discs will already be gone by then, so it's completely out of the question…
It'd be one thing if they just didn't buy it — but they go around shouting "Nintendo has crappy graphics!" and actively sabotage sales.
You can't just half-heartedly throw them a bone like that.
How many times have they repaid kindness with betrayal already?
nobody needs Keroro anyway…
No wait…
it's the PS5 nobody needs…
Not some slapped-together cash-in like this — if it were a real Keroro RPG in the lineage of the ones the Tales team developed, I'd genuinely want to play it.
Is the Japanese user base just dead?
Dropping physical media was probably the final blow.
It's genuinely fallen to about the same status as Xbox now.
Forget that — the sales for Orbitals, the Switch 2 third-party exclusive, look like they're in real trouble.
One look at the Gamescom lineup and it's obvious nobody needs garbage like this.
Getting snubbed has sent the Nintendo fanboys into a meltdown.
Unfortunately…
Background and Key Points
Keroro Gunso (Sgt. Frog) is a long-running manga/anime about a comically incompetent alien frog platoon trying to invade Earth; it was a massive hit in the 2000s and spawned a string of licensed games on PS2 and DS, including a well-regarded Tales-team RPG spinoff that one poster (37) still fondly recalls. The new title is a minor tie-in, not a flagship release, and it’s launching on Switch and Steam but not PS5 — notable mainly because it underlines how far PS5 has fallen behind Switch in the Japanese market, where physical carts still move well with the elementary/middle-school audience Keroro is aimed at, while PS5 has been steadily de-emphasizing discs ahead of an expected fully digital future.
The thread isn’t really split on facts — everyone agrees the PS5 snub is real and funny — the friction is over blame and meaning. One camp reads it as proof PS5 has been reduced to Xbox-tier irrelevance in Japan; another insists it’s simply not worth making a AAA-caliber console version of a budget anime game, and that Nintendo fans are cope-posting after wanting it themselves. A side skirmish also breaks out over whether physical release even matters if PS5 abandons discs before the game ships next year.
Readers should know this is 5ch’s “Hardware/Industry (Console Wars)” board, essentially a containment zone for partisan flame wars, so the slurs (“Shou-chan” for Switch fans, playing on “handicapped,” and “Boo-chan”/”Nishi-kun” for Nintendo fans) and gloating are ritualized trash talk, not representative fan sentiment — and a single mid-tier license skipping PS5 says little about Sony’s actual platform strategy.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch Hardware/Industry (Console Wars) board thread “Switch fanboy fantasizes “Keroro is a PS5 exclusive!” — turns out it’s the ONLY platform it’s NOT coming to 😆.”
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