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The story
A story spread online after someone, when asked about home consoles, reportedly replied, “Aren’t game consoles just Switch?” The tale became a hot topic on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board. In the thread, comments poured in saying “Switch is basically synonymous with game consoles now,” with many pointing to the gap in name recognition compared to PlayStation. Meanwhile, some argued the pecking order for gaming devices runs “smartphone > PC > Nintendo > PlayStation,” sparking further debate over whether that ranking itself holds up.
What people said
Saying "real gamers use PS5" is the ignorant take here
Though Madoka Magica Portable was a masterpiece, mind you (PSP spin-off of the anime).
Correction:
Home console: ✕
Digital download: ○
Maybe they mean the Vita TV
Right
Such a student thing to say
That freshness and innocence is different from us
Guess it'll come out that PlayStation isn't worth buying
At this point, just learning it exists isn't enough anymore. For this person, dedicated home consoles have already become a thing of history, so the bar is set incredibly high.
that's becoming the common perception.
It's not "becoming" that — it's been that way for a while now
Slightly off — "PC" in everyday use includes PCs without a graphics card too
Even people from that generation say PlayStation stopped at the first one, lol
The real phase is coming next, where even parents won't know what PlayStation is. If you're already losing it over stuff like this, you won't last.
Name recognition and intelligence level are two different things
Isn't the whole point of name recognition how well it reaches even idiots?
Oh, so PlayStation is "for people with high intelligence," is it?
This one's a classic.
Then PlayStation has even less name recognition, doesn't it
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Platform rivalries are a frequent sight on the Hardware/Industry board, but this particular spark appears to have come from an offhand remark that took on a life of its own. In Japan, the Nintendo Switch has spread across a wide range of age groups and is increasingly used as a stand-in term for “home game console” itself. PlayStation, meanwhile, has a long history but is often cited as lagging behind in recognition among younger generations. The “smartphone → PC → Nintendo → PlayStation” purchase-priority ranking that came up in the thread is based on individual impressions rather than any official statistics. Indeed, some replies pushed back on the simple ranking, pointing out that “PC” as a category also includes ordinary computers with no gaming use in mind. The fact that what “game console” even refers to is shifting depending on generation and use case appears to be the underlying reason this reaction spread as widely as it did.
※This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “Gamer: ‘What’s a home console? Aren’t game consoles just Switch?’ → Goes massively viral lol”.
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