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Actress and TV personality Kato Konatsu’s debut episode playing the new PS5 horror title “Silent Hill f” on her gaming channel racked up 6.2 million views — but when she switched to streaming “Rhythm Heaven” on Nintendo’s new Switch 2 hardware, her viewer count dropped sharply, and the topic got picked up on 5ch’s hardware/industry (geha) board. Rather than simply chalking it up to a difference in hardware popularity, the thread pointed out that Silent Hill f’s own viewership had already been declining as the playthrough went on, with the dominant theory being that the real driver was the fading novelty of “a woman playing hardcore horror on stream” that fueled the first episode’s buzz. Still, there was some disagreement over how to read the actual trend in the view counts.
What people said
Kato Konatsu, Silent Hill f
Ep. 1 6.2M
Yeah, this is quietly a real factor.
The pacing was so slow I eventually just gave up watching.
It wasn't a very beginner-friendly game.
Too much hassle — why don't you post the most recent Silent Hill view count yourself.
but a young woman playing on Switch 2 isn't rare at all.
Well, Rhythm Heaven just isn't that fun to watch in the first place.
With Silent Hill, people who know she's the lead would tune in, but the crowd that plays Rhythm Heaven is mostly not the Silent Hill crowd.
and without that it's just going to keep dropping.
People watch Silent Hill just because "she's" playing it or because "a woman" is playing it, but that doesn't turn into sales.
Unless she's seriously talented, this isn't something an actress just pulls off one-handed.
Is that view count something to be proud of?
Don't tell me that number is you guys?
But there are way more streams of Rhythm Heaven out there than that?
Silent Hill, ep. 20
200,000 views
I don't think Rhythm Heaven is fun to watch someone else play, but isn't there a crowd that just enjoys watching her have fun or chatting along the way?
There's no way someone who's bad at games could handle Ocarina of Time.
PS streams are strong in both stream counts and views.
The fact that this still doesn't translate into sales is honestly impressive.
Seems like the YouTube-watching crowd and the PS-owning crowd overlap pretty closely.
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
Actress and TV personality Kato Konatsu also streams game playthroughs, and the first episode of her new PS5 horror title “Silent Hill f” pulled in a massive 6.2 million views. The thread focused on how that number dropped sharply once she switched to streaming the Switch 2 version of “Rhythm Heaven,” but the discussion wasn’t simply a “PS5 vs. Switch 2” face-off. Several posts noted that Silent Hill f’s own view counts had already fallen to around 200,000 by its later episodes, suggesting the bigger factor wasn’t the hardware switch itself but the fading novelty of the first episode’s hook — “a woman playing hardcore horror on stream.” At the same time, some pushed back on citing “200,000 views for Silent Hill” as a misleading spin, so opinions remain split on how to read the actual numbers. Readers could easily get the wrong impression from the thread title alone — that it’s simply “unpopular because it’s Switch 2” — but in fact many pointed out that viewership had already been trending downward back during Silent Hill f itself, making this a more nuanced debate than hardware differences alone can explain.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [geha]) thread “Kato Konatsu — Viewers Plummet After Switching From PS5 to Switch 2, Why Is That?.”
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