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A thread titled “A question for PC gamers: what don’t you like about home consoles?” popped up on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board. The expected setup was PC fans one-sidedly bashing consoles, but the actual responses turned out to be far more balanced. Many PC gamers said what really bothers them is “people who don’t even own a PC but use it as a club to beat others with,” while console fans fired back just as often, complaining about “people with zero knowledge overhyping PC performance.” The discussion branched out into technical differences like software pricing, mod support, and frame-rate caps, eventually becoming a thread about how people actually split their time between platforms — touching on cheap Steam sales and the quality of Nintendo’s first-party titles.
What people said
Pretty sure most of them have never actually touched a PC (classic “armchair PC user” behavior).
Wasn't the PS3 version nicknamed “Skyri-muri” (a pun on “Skyrim” and muri, meaning “impossible”) because it ran so badly?
Game Pass is cheap, sure, but you can use that on PC too.
Get some actual knowledge before you start talking tough…
I own a Switch 2, a PS5, and an Xbox Series S — though honestly just owning them satisfies me enough, and I end up only playing on PC anyway.
I just can't stand the annoying fanboys who talk about specs and features as if nonexistent things exist, so I call that out.
I just dropped out of the ugly console-war bickering.
No mods, no trainers.
Can't mess with memory either.
Can't run 2 or 3 monitors.
Can't choose your input device.
Can't set up macros.
I think the only reason I even bother responding is that clueless people with no knowledge keep coming after PC for no reason.
Exactly.
I'm just watching the skirmish from up above, and ignorant people keep picking fights with me for no reason, lol
In Geha circles — or honestly in the gaming industry in general — Nintendo gets underrated for some reason, but some of their titles are on par with AAA games and genuinely fun too.
Sony (SIE) has fun titles as well, but for whatever reason those end up on Steam too.
PC gamers who also own a Switch are actually a pretty small minority.
Only 7.5% of them.
Looking at PC-plus-console combos, ‘PC and Nintendo Switch only’ was the most common at 7.5%.
Next was ‘PC and PlayStation only’ at 6.4%.
After that came the PC/PlayStation/Xbox combination, at 4.3% of respondents.
Only 3.2% of respondents played across all four — PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox — for at least an hour a month.
The survey found that roughly 40% of hardcore Steam users ‘only play on PC.’ About ‘1 in 6’ people play across PC, console, and mobile all together. – AUTOMATON https://share.google/XidYiYWPJ9skZpCwt
In China and Korea those genres got so popular that consoles barely sell.
Might be more about indie games these days.
A lot of those never even make it to consoles.
Because of that, even with free games on offer, I still can't bring myself to use Epic.
Since they won't throw in the DLC for free, if you're going to really dig into a game, you end up just buying it on Steam anyway.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
What makes this thread interesting is that, while it was ostensibly asking “what do PC gamers dislike about consoles,” most of the responses actually zeroed in on frustration with “people who troll under the PC banner without even owning one.” Users who genuinely use both PC and consoles tended to bring up concrete technical limitations — fixed control devices, no mod support, frame-rate caps — while voices loudly declaring one platform superior turned out to be a minority. According to survey data cited in the thread (compiled by AUTOMATON), only around 7.5% of PC users also use a Switch, suggesting that people who juggle multiple platforms are themselves a minority. What’s easy to miss is that much of this kind of ‘console war’ debate doesn’t actually reflect real usage habits, but is instead amplified by anonymous trolling that claims to speak for a platform — and the thread’s own replies showed plenty of wry amusement at that very point.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “A question for PC gamers: what don’t you like about home consoles?.”
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