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A thread that kicked off with the comment “Elden Ring and Final Fantasy both came out on Switch anyway” turned into a debate over whether there’s still any point in buying a PS5. Some argued the console is obsolete now that its former exclusive blockbusters are playable elsewhere, while others countered that a slightly downgraded version is perfectly fine if you already own the hardware. The discussion sprawled into price and electricity-cost comparisons with PC and Switch 2, and even how streamers choose their setups. True to 5ch’s hardware/industry (“Geha”) board form, things briefly derailed into bickering over how certain posts were worded, before someone landed on the closing point: “kids today have everything they need between Switch and PC, so PlayStation has no real edge left.”
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After all that negative campaigning against them, too
Guess it was just an inferiority complex
Those titles used to be PlayStation's calling card, though
How did it come to this
Honestly I just wanted to play FF7, so I'm happy about it
I was planning to buy a "trash-tation" (derisive nickname for PS) once the remake trilogy wrapped up, but now there's zero reason to
I guess some people are like that
Same with Rolly and Aibo (Sony's old gadget lineup — a dancing MP3 player and a robot dog)
Now that you mention it, I remember being happy the first time I bought a Sony mini component system too
If "I don't want the downgraded version" is the standard, PS5 gets ruled out anyway
Whatever you bought becomes your baseline
You never even notice it's the downgraded version until you own the other console too
Only the superiority-complex crowd keeps insisting it's "downgraded"
So Nishi-kun did want to play FF after all
If the answer to that comes back "Yeah, I did want to play it," what are you gonna say next?
Ask them "then why not just buy a PS5"?
Switch 2: 60,000 yen
Paying more than a PS5 to play the downgraded version — that's not exactly sane, is it
If it's not insane then there's no problem at all…
That gap disappears the moment you sell off just one physical game
One year's worth of electricity bills alone flips that math
Your Japanese is so broken it's funny
…wait, did you seriously mix up "insane" with "sane"?
With a decent PC and monitor you get high graphics and high framerates
Conclusion: a gaming PC is all you need
Going by the reasons you just listed
none of them actually require it to be a "gaming" PC specifically, no?
At this point his only option is to keep hopping IDs (switching to a new poster ID to dodge the pile-on)
This is for real
From the PS3 onward there's genuinely zero need to buy one
That's kind of sad to think about
Something like these ~50,000-yen used models is more than enough
If 30fps is fine, an RTX 3060 machine
only available used, but around 100,000 yen I'd guess
The kids watching them then pick PC too, because that's what the streamer plays on
High-spec consoles (PS, Xbox) are basically running out of a reason to exist
>The kids watching them then pick PC too, because that's what the streamer plays on
A while back people would've said "no way kids can afford a PC," but these days there are coding classes in school, so parents buy them one as part of their study materials.
Times really have changed, huh.
Switch ends up being the social tool for hanging out with friends, PC covers both schoolwork and gaming — and once that's the setup, PlayStation genuinely has no edge left, no need for it at all.
I'm guessing Sony and its fans are banking on "today's kids will naturally move to PlayStation once they grow up," but…
If you still wanted to manufacture a reason to buy a PS5, exclusives would be the quickest route — but there's nothing but garbage on that front
Whenever things don't go your way you always fall back on "there's nothing but garbage games" as an excuse
But Switch 2 exclusives are selling just fine, and Game Pass has now fully partnered with SEGA too
Blaming everyone else for the exclusives-are-garbage complex you and this board have is basically a symptom in itself — see Saros, see Toukon (a wrestling game franchise)
Background and Key Points of This Debate
This kind of “PlayStation is unnecessary” argument stems from the broader trend of console “multiplatforming” — big-budget titles once tied to a single system now appearing across several. The claim that the PS5 has lost much of its appeal now that former exclusives like the Final Fantasy series and Elden Ring are playable on Switch is one that comes up in industry discussion too, and it ran in parallel throughout the thread without ever really reconciling with the counterargument that a slightly downgraded version is fine. The price and electricity-cost comparison (the figures of 55,000 yen for PS5 and 60,000 yen for Switch 2) reflects one poster’s own back-of-the-envelope math, and it’s worth noting that actual retail prices and electricity rate plans can vary. The thread’s detour into PC gaming and how streamers pick their setup reflects a real dynamic as esports and livestreaming culture grow — wanting to play on the same platform as friends or viewers increasingly shapes hardware choices. That said, the back half of the thread also drifted into nitpicking over phrasing and digging into specific posters’ identities; those off-topic exchanges have been left out of this article.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “Isn’t there really no need to buy a PlayStation anymore?.”
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