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The story
A thread titled “Aren’t PC gamers on the hardware board getting kind of annoying lately?” popped up on the Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board. It was sparked by frustration over PC gamers repeatedly showing up on a board dedicated to console (CS) discussion just to bash home consoles, and the thread quickly spiraled into a full-blown console-vs-PC flame war. The debate split into two main threads: one over the shifting sales balance — the claim that “the console market is shrinking while the PC market is growing” — and the other a purely emotional slugfest of insults flying both ways. Those citing Switch 2 sales trends and the rising share of PC software revenue to argue that “PC is now the winning platform” talked right past those firing back that “PC gamers are just acting high and mighty on a board that isn’t even theirs.”
What people said
They're always popping up on the console board too, going on about "console trash" (家ゴミ, a slur for consoles/console owners) — their whole attitude is just twisted.
Let's start ignoring them when we see them.
Console-only, seriously? For real??
They're hated because they barge into console discussions out of nowhere, screaming "consoles are finished, consoles are finished."
Ever heard of reading the room? Nobody invited PC talk onto this board.
That's
only true for the type who, the second someone calls them out with "you're one of those 'Walls' (障壁, a mocking nickname for PC gamers)!",
fires back with "I'm a neutral PC user! Pigs this! Nintendo-fanboys that! Home consoles are garbage!"
That's the only kind doing that.
It's a fact that consoles are finished.
Even Switch 2 sales have cratered 41% since the price hike — it's dire.
Nintendo fanboys ("pigs") have really developed a complex about PC lately, huh.
Well, with Switch 2 in such a sorry state, I get resenting the "winning platform" PC lol
which is exactly why you can't trust the "Walls" as a group.
They basically only lie, so you should fact-check everything they say.
See, exactly this.
If the guy trashing PC as "niche nerd stuff" while bringing up Tomodachi Life (トモコレ) of all things isn't a Nintendo fanboy, then what is he?
I've been calling him a pig from the start — a dim-witted pig, a real die-hard fanboy.
Re: #20
If PC gamers bug you so much, go to a console-only board and put "No PC talk" right in the thread title 😂
This right here is the "Wall" I was talking about in Re: #26.
The Walls call PC gamers… pigs.
You guys…
Could it be that PC gamers are hated by literally every camp?
Yeah, probably this.
Capcom's PC sales already make up more than half its software revenue.
Even lumping Switch 2, PS5, and every other console together, they can't out-sell PC anymore.
The ones who'd always been PC-zealots (パソニシ, a Nintendo-troll-style slur for PC gamers)
all scattered at once, just like the Mothra-like monster in the Monster Hunter benchmark running off after getting hit with a dung bomb (こやし玉).
Sorry, I genuinely have no idea what you're trying to say.
Knowing full well you're the "stronger" camp but still coming down to the hardware board to throw your weight around is lame — like a middle schooler strutting around a sandbox full of preschoolers.
Or do you come here and to the console board because nobody on the PC board takes you seriously?
Then you should just stay holed up on the console board yourself.
Why are you even here on the hardware board?
That's exactly the kind of "sore loser" talk that makes PC users find Nintendo fanboys so creepy.
Most of the "PC gamers" posting are actually people who don't own one and know nothing about it — they just use "PC" as a stick to beat whatever hardware or fanbase they hate.
Funny how a "real" Nintendo fanboy wouldn't even react to a post like this —
yet they lose their minds the instant PC gets put down even slightly. Strange, huh.
Same, I sincerely wish they would.
The moment they crawl out of their nest they start random Pretty Cure (プリキュア) threads that have nothing to do with the hardware board just to stir things up.
It made zero sense and honestly creeped me out.
That hasn't changed even now.
Console gaming is just as much a "niche nerd minority" thing these days.
Though I guess DMM technically gets some traffic from overseas too.
It's not just "some," either —
there are adult gacha games on DMM that only stay alive because Chinese whale spenders are dumping huge money into them.
Re: #86
And there it is — "pot calling the kettle black" (ドチモドチ, i.e. "both sides are just as bad").
It's just a fact though.
Are you trying to claim consoles are somehow different from PC?
If you think "nerds" are the ones playing Tomodachi Life, sure, go with that.
Not that arguing with someone like you is even worth my time.
Switch and PC don't fight.
Xbox and Switch don't fight.
Xbox and PC don't fight.
The only one picking fights with literally everyone is the "Wall" (障壁) 🪳
The only idiots dragging hardware-board flame wars out into the wider internet
are PlayStation fans — nobody else does that.
Background and Key Points of This Debate
The growth of the PC gaming market itself is a trend that’s been widely noted in recent years, and major publishers like Capcom have increasingly disclosed the share of sales coming from PC versions. That said, specific figures raised in the thread — such as the claim that “Switch 2 sales dropped 41% after the price hike” — come from a single poster’s assertion and are not backed by any official announcement. Readers should keep that distinction in mind.
Looking closer at the conflict, it’s a mix of arguments grounded in actual sales data and purely emotional exchanges using long-standing flame-war nicknames from the hardware board like “pigs” (豚) and “Walls” (障壁). The latter don’t reflect any hardware’s real performance or install base — they’re better understood as reflecting the board’s general mood. What the thread never resolved was whether the PC market’s growth is actually driving anxiety in the console camp; both sides mostly just accused each other of “lying” and demanded the other “fact-check,” without any concrete verification taking place.
※This article is an excerpt and summary based on the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, aka “Geha”) thread “Aren’t PC gamers on the hardware board getting kind of annoying lately?“.
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