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A dispute broke out on X (formerly Twitter) after a PS5 user posted that “PC is garbage because creating a Steam account and installing it is too hard.” When the post was reposted to 5ch’s hardware/industry (“geha”) board, contradiction after contradiction surfaced — including the fact that the poster himself owned PC versions of games. The thread’s discussion expanded beyond just how easy Steam is to set up, spilling into the price gap between PS5 and PC, player population size, and long-term viability, with opinions remaining split right to the end.
What people said
I'm a PC user and… I can't even argue with that.
Yeah I saw that post.
And get this — the guy saying it actually owns a PC too lol
Because the PC side has got Welfare WEED-kun backing them up (a notorious internet meme figure).
Making a Steam account is honestly easier than making one on X, which you're using right now.
After that it's just buy on Steam → download → play.
And acting high and mighty about installing games on Steam makes zero sense.
Then Xbox is the easiest of all — no install needed once it's downloaded.
This, this exactly lol
And he's bragging about owning a 14th-gen i7 and an RTX 4070 Ti while saying this lol
He might genuinely think you have to reinstall Steam separately for every single game on PC.
I didn't think it'd be this bad.
Honestly this is the kind of thing that makes you worry about his life outside the internet 🥺
Guess getting called out from every direction pissed him off,
because now he's pulling the super lame "I know way more about PCs than you guys! If you've got a problem, DM me!" move.
Well, back in the day a "demo" meant an actual physical disc, after all.
The high schooler went and bought a PS5
He hasn't actually bought it yet.
Can you even read Japanese?
Are your eyes broken?
Ugh, and that big ol' box can't even run Tarkov.
Poor kid wanted to play Tarkov but got tricked by a PS5 fanboy into buying a PS5 instead 😭
Feels like nobody's even running Landmark raids anymore, doesn't seem like it's got much buzz.
ARC Raiders is getting way more buzz these days.
The subscription model made sense purely because the entry cost is low, aimed at people who can't or won't buy a gaming PC — but that's also why retailers turned their backs on it. And if you're planning to eventually get a gaming PC anyway, the logic of "buy a PS5 for now, upgrade later" does actually hold up.
That said, any real gamer will outgrow it fast, and if you're just going casual it's a weak option either way.
Bottom line: PS5 is for "beginner gamers" and "dabblers" who aren't ready to spend real money on a gaming PC.
Exactly this.
In the end the correct take is: broke people who have nothing else to do but game, yet refuse to spend money on that hobby, are the ones clinging to PlayStation.
I bought PCs for my friend's 5th-grade kid and my nephew, and they were both so excited playing Minecraft that I really felt like I'd given them something great.
But that was back when you could build one for about 80,000 yen — now it'd run about 200,000 yen, so I couldn't afford to do that again.
Buying a PC for someone else's kid is just creepy as hell 😩
Now it's over 300,000 yen, so of course there's a whole group of people who can't afford one.
And calling it "I'm choosing not to buy" instead of "I can't afford it" — that's sour grapes, textbook.
100,000 yen hasn't been enough for even a halfway-decent GPU alone for years now.
Sure, if you mean high-end. But you could get a gaming-capable BTO (build-to-order) PC for just over 150,000 yen.
Used to be only the graphics card was expensive,
but now SSDs and RAM are pricey too, so it's just over.
And those are parts you absolutely can't skip, so there's no way to cut costs there.
I only got into gaming PCs last year, and I don't remember struggling with it at all.
Now if you mean it's a pain trying to reuse a controller you already had from PlayStation or Nintendo, sure, I get that.
Yeah, optimizing key bindings is genuinely annoying, especially for VR.
PlayStation has basically zero future potential at this point, right?
Future potential doesn't even matter.
Most people lose interest in gaming long before that becomes relevant anyway.
Background and Key Points of the Debate
This whole thing started when a PS5 user posted on X that “PC is garbage because creating a Steam account and installing it is too hard.” In practice, the process isn’t much different from buying and downloading through the PlayStation Store, and commenters in the thread pointed out that the poster may be mistaken in thinking you have to reinstall Steam every single time. Part of the backdrop here is that rising GPU and RAM prices have pushed the real-world cost of a gaming PC up significantly over the past few years — a build that once cost around 100,000-something yen now runs over 200,000 yen — so the price-based pushback does have some basis in reality. On the other hand, the PS5 side’s claim about the large player base for titles like GTA Online isn’t a number that can be simply compared against the PC version, and would need further verification. Debates over which hardware is superior are a recurring topic on 5ch, and this one, too, ended without a resolution.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “geha”) thread “[Breaking] A fight breaks out between PS5 and PC users on X: “PC is garbage because it’s expensive and downloading Steam is hard!”“
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