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The story
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
Xbox Series S: ¥82,480
PS5 Digital Edition: ¥55,000
Bravia TV production handed off to China's TLC
Xperia's going Made-in-China, looks done for
PS disc version's finished
PS5: 100 million units, Switch 2: 20 million units
100 million in two years?
"Apologized over sales" as in "sorry for selling too well"—that kind of apology
Yeah, even when it leaked, nobody believed it at the time
https://itest.5ch.io/krsw/test/read.cgi/ghard/1779260824/
FF16, which came out in 2023, hasn't even broken 500K—so yeah, that was predictable
This one's probably the biggest one
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"
At least in Japan, they're cornered to the point it's basically the same as having pulled out
Switch U's probably going down with it
Can't even hit #1 on trends anymore
LOL, still thinks it has any influence
Are you dissing State of Play for not even scraping the trends list?
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.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, Geha) thread “Things from Geha two years ago (2024) that wouldn’t be believed now.”
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