A thread on 5ch’s “Hardware/Industry (Geha)” board asked what stories from today would sound unbelievable if told to your 2024 self. Nintendo’s new Switch 2 launched at ¥59,980, drawing comparisons to the Xbox Series S at ¥82,480 and the PS5 Digital Edition at ¥55,000. The PS5’s discontinued physical media production became a hot topic, and some posters noted that GTA6 actually came out in September 2026. While users piled on industry changes that would have seemed unimaginable two years ago, some in the thread took a cooler view, noting it was really just the usual console-war bickering dressed up as commentary.
What people said
1AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:08
Switch's successor, the Switch 2: ¥59,980
Xbox Series S: ¥82,480
PS5 Digital Edition: ¥55,000
2AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:14
Following the disc-discontinuation announcement, some retailers stopped stocking it
5AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:17
The Switch successor flopped
8AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:24
Blu-ray's finished
Bravia TV production handed off to China's TLC
Xperia's going Made-in-China, looks done for
PS disc version's finished
9AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:25
The PS5 line itself isn't even on store shelves anymore (though used units are everywhere)
10AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:27
Switch 2's software lineup is embarrassingly thin
11AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:30
Even after all that, the fact that PS5 is so unpopular it's losing to the original Switch would probably leave you speechless
13AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:32
No way they'd believe GTA6 actually released in September 2026
14AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:34
SWU (a mocking nickname for the Switch 2, short for "Switch U") flopped so hard it reeks of death
15AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:35
President Furukawa apologized over Switch 2 sales
PS5: 100 million units, Switch 2: 20 million units
18AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:38
Re: #15
100 million in two years?
83AnonymousSep 6, 2026 14:00
Re: #15
"Apologized over sales" as in "sorry for selling too well"—that kind of apology
16AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:35
They'd never believe PS5 dropped physical media
19AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:39
Re: #16
Yeah, even when it leaked, nobody believed it at the time
https://itest.5ch.io/krsw/test/read.cgi/ghard/1779260824/
17AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:38
Xbox is the sole loser here—such a massive defeat that any company but Microsoft would've pulled out by now
21AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:43
PS5 is thriving with core gamers, while SWU has been abandoned by the mainstream and kids and reeks of death
22AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:43
That careless announcement about killing discs sparked a "No Disc, No Buy" movement that swept through the hardware community
23AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:45
They've got nothing left to announce on State of Play (Sony's showcase), so now they're just promoting third-party movies
25AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:47
Even my 2024 self wouldn't buy nonsense like this, y'know?
26AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:47
Dragon Quest 12 looks like it's slipping to 2029
29AnonymousSep 6, 2026 11:49
Switch 2 launches but flops, gets nicknamed "Switch U"—SWU for short
34AnonymousSep 6, 2026 12:01
The newest Monster Hunter fails to hit a million sales domestically
41AnonymousSep 6, 2026 12:10
Re: #34
FF16, which came out in 2023, hasn't even broken 500K—so yeah, that was predictable
45AnonymousSep 6, 2026 12:13
Nintendo pulls off handheld graphics basically on par with the PS5
This one's probably the biggest one
54AnonymousSep 6, 2026 12:40
Re: #1
Telling 2024's Geha board that two years later they'd STILL be posting "PS is done for" (a running meme, "PSﾃﾀｰｲ")—nobody would believe that
2024 → "PS is done for"
2026 → "PS is done for"
59AnonymousSep 6, 2026 12:46
Re: #54
At least in Japan, they're cornered to the point it's basically the same as having pulled out
62AnonymousSep 6, 2026 12:52
The new Smash Bros ("Dasubura") looks like a mediocre game
Switch U's probably going down with it
71AnonymousSep 6, 2026 13:17
It's not even trending
Can't even hit #1 on trends anymore
LOL, still thinks it has any influence
84AnonymousSep 6, 2026 14:01
Re: #71
Are you dissing State of Play for not even scraping the trends list?
96AnonymousSep 6, 2026 16:39
The only things selling on PS5 are Chinese gacha/microtransaction games
98AnonymousSep 6, 2026 17:13
Re: #96
Pretty sure it's been getting treated like a glorified smartphone since two years ago
Background and Key Points
As post #83 notes, the president’s “apology over sales” wasn’t about poor performance — some replies clarify it actually referred to demand outstripping supply, so taking it at face value is easy to misread. The rumor about the PS5 dropping physical media also predates this thread; post #19 links to an earlier thread on the same topic. The Geha board is known for its distinctive console-war trash talk, but none of it is backed by official announcements or statistics — it’s all personal opinion and shouldn’t be taken as fact. Overall, the thread is less a market analysis than the usual round of hardware-versus-hardware sniping.
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