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The story
A thread titled “To those buying Elden Ring now” popped up on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board.
The discussion spiraled into arguments over a possible Switch port and portable performance, though some posters who’d actually played the game also chimed in with screenshots of their progress.
What people said
Give us a source and everyone will believe you instantly.
They'll probably start crying before they even beat the first boss.
Found the guy who's never actually played it (classic "armchair player" call-out).
You don't even need to beat the first boss.
You don't need a Switch 2 for handheld play — a PC can do that too.
Honestly, more Elden Ring fans isn't a bad thing, is it? Not if you're actually a fan yourself.
He's not a fan, he's a console-war troll. Guys like that are only happy when they get to bash Nintendo.
Even without steady sellers, PC is already way more successful than the Switch 2, with a much bigger market.
Playing for the first time in two years, I'd forgotten the controls and this guy wrecked me right off the bat.
Got my revenge after that.
Forgot the name of the guy in the bottom right, but I genuinely thought I was going to lose my save data lol
And once I got even more used to it, I went on a killing spree in a nostalgic old spot
Anyway, it's a good game.
Everyone should buy it too!
Exactly this.
Not sure if it's because they're prioritizing PvP balance, but it's disappointing when weapons get hit with huge nerfs in balance patches.
If it comes out later there: they call it "leftovers" and troll.
If it launches day-and-date: they troll about the graphics.
If it's a Nintendo exclusive: they act like they never cared anyway.
Either way, it's a total "moral victory" for Sony fans, so no problem for them.
Though apparently once actual sales numbers come out after release, they go dead silent.
Honestly, "Wall-kun's" (5ch slang for a certain breed of anonymous console-war poster) whole life is basically a living tribute to "The True Story of Ah Q" (the Lu Xun novella that's the actual origin of the term "moral victory").
Background and Key Points
Elden Ring is FromSoftware’s 2022 action RPG, published in Japan by Bandai Namco and released on PS4/PS5, Xbox One/Series, and PC; it has never had a Switch version, unlike earlier FromSoftware titles such as Dark Souls Remastered, which did get a 2018 Switch port. The board this thread comes from, 5ch’s “Geha” (game hardware/industry) board, is one of the site’s most reliably hostile venues for console-war sniping between Sony, Nintendo, and PC partisans, and the “Wall-kun” jab in the final posts is board-native slang for a poster who retreats into the same console-war script regardless of what actually happens — the reference to Lu Xun’s “The True Story of Ah Q” points to that novella’s coinage of “moral victory,” the trick of reframing any outcome as a win.
What the thread actually splits on isn’t the game itself but the hypothetical Switch port: whether a portable release would add real value, versus the counter that handheld play is already possible on PC hardware, making the whole debate moot. A second, smaller fault line is whether wanting more people to buy Elden Ring reflects genuine fandom or is just console-war cover.
Readers should treat the claim in post 5 — that publishers are buying back their own stock to inflate sales figures — as an unverified accusation nobody in the thread ever sources or defends, not an established fact. The thread also never explains why the Mimic Tear nerf stung so much: it was a summonable ash clone of the player’s own build, powerful enough in both PvE and PvP that repeated balance patches specifically targeted it, which is the backstory behind post 101’s complaint.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) board thread “To those buying Elden Ring now, after the rest of us already sank dozens of hours into it and got bored.”
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