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A thread titled “Nintendo fans are still dragging up the ‘kiddie’ remark even in the Reiwa era” popped up on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board. It focuses on how digs once thrown by rival camps — like “the DS is for kiddies” — are still being used as ammunition in console-war flame wars well into the Reiwa era. The thread runs through a string of predictions that were proven wrong one after another, like “Elden Ring will never come to Switch,” while also throwing in a comparison of Switch 2 vs. PS5 sales figures, spiraling into an endless back-and-forth over which console is really “for kids.”
What people said
Lol, you clearly can't understand Japanese
'Resident Evil 9 will never come! Snubbed, snubbed, lol!' → It came out, and a port of the previous game got confirmed too
'Pragmata will never come! Snubbed, snubbed!' → It came out, and they're even releasing an amiibo
'FF7 Remake will never come! Snubbed, snubbed!' → It came out
'Kingdom Hearts 4 will never come! Snubbed, snubbed!' → It's coming, and even the older games are getting proper download/physical versions instead of just a cloud version
'Wilds will never come, snubbed!' → It's coming, with a Deluxe pack too, for a limited-time price of 3,742 yen
'Even if Wilds comes, Ascendance sure won't! Switch 2 only gets vanilla Wilds!!' → It's coming
'Nintendo is sooo jealous of Chameleon!!! They'll probably patent-crush Chameleon just like they did with Palworld lmaooo' → It's coming. And by the way, on consoles it's Switch 2 exclusive
'W-well Persona 4 Reload flopped, so there's no way [Persona] 3 Reload is coming!!' → It's coming, and so is Persona 6
So at this point, the only things left to use as sticks to beat Switch with are 'Rinkane' (a game nickname) and GTA6
But indie games that ripped off Japanese games have been thriving
Young people aren't interested in 'anti-Japan game evolution' either, so they're just distancing themselves from PlayStation
The split between Japanese third parties and PlayStation is beginning
Guess that's why they couldn't talk back even though it stung
'Calling something you actually did self-hypnosis' — what exactly did they do?
All it said was 'let's keep self-hypnotizing about evil Sony'
Are you the type who doesn't get sarcasm?
That's kind of scary
It's not going to just disappear, you know
Wait, did that actually get to you?
Are you irritated? lol
Let's pass this down for all eternity — the circle of elitist console makers (smug face)
Well, Switch 2 is 'dead last in the world in both numbers and specs,' so
if you're going to act tough, please do it after surpassing the PS5's world-leading ~96 million units sold 🤗
Adults are too busy playing free-to-play games
While mocking the Wii U, they turn right around and bring up PS2 sales records because they still can't let go of that old success story — who's really stuck in the past here?
Mostly they all seem to share the trait of citing earnings reports and VGChartz data while not trusting Famitsu numbers at all
The Nintendo side just doesn't bother engaging, that's all
Once you're a proper adult it should be PC gaming
It's normal to still like as an adult what you liked as a kid — that's exactly why remakes and reboots are popular across every kind of content, not just games
That's exactly why PlayStation occupies the 'middle schooler' position
Background and Key Points of This Debate
The roots of the “kiddie” argument reportedly trace back to the mid-2000s standoff between the PSP, marketed toward adults, and the DS, marketed toward families — the thread itself quotes the era’s catchphrase, “PSP is for adults, DS is for kiddies.” Roughly 20 years on, this same label is still being recycled as a stock insult in online flame wars regardless of how much hardware specs or sales results have changed, as this thread demonstrates once again. Figures cited in the thread, such as PS5’s “roughly 96 million units sold,” are claims made on an anonymous message board, and readers should verify them against official figures themselves. It’s also worth noting a recurring feature of these kinds of threads: labels like “for kids” versus “for adults” tend to be used less to describe a game’s actual target age or genre, and more to justify whichever console someone happens to support.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “[Sad News] Nintendo Fans Still Dragging Up the ‘Kiddie’ Remark Even in the Reiwa Era.”
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