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A Russian user posted an image summing up how fans of the PS5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC see each other, and it blew up on social media with over a million impressions. The image reportedly shows PS fans seen as “self-proclaimed nobility,” Nintendo fans as “strictly for toddlers,” Xbox fans as “social misfits,” and PC fans as “pirates” (users of cracked/pirated games) — and it became a huge topic on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board too. In the thread, many were struck by how “the same image holds true in Japan and overseas alike,” while others pointed out that “PS fans are the only ones with such a massive gap between their self-image and how everyone else sees them.”
What people said
👈 fanboy's view ☝ console
Funny how PC and Xbox are basically the same thing but still throw that 'hatred of their own kind' vibe at each other
Guess it's universal: 'Shou-chan' (a mocking slur for PS fans) just complains instead of actually gaming, everywhere in the world
Yeah, they do
Apparently Chinese resellers import them
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Well, a ton of PS5s get smuggled in disguised as components too
But in this image Xbox is only hated by PS fanboys though
Nintendo fans think PC gamers are pirates
Xbox fans think PC gamers are stereotypical nerds
Huh, that actually tracks
PC users → PC nerds
Xbox users → love shoot-'em-up Western games
Nintendo users → kids
PS users → don't even play games, just watch cutscenes and complain, or pressure everyone about PS exclusives
Nintendo users = little kids, creepy otaku
Xbox users = social misfits
PC users, not totally sure, but cheapskates? Pirates?
Honestly the 'creepy otaku' label fits PS more than Nintendo these days
Sony's been pushing anime stuff hard too
Is it the 'cheapskate' label because PC gamers brag about sales?
Well, I guess that's part of the 'pirate' thing too
Sony's anime fanbase definitely leans toward an adult-content image
Impressive they can delude themselves this hard when scalpers are the only way to even buy one
PS gamers → PC: soldiers; Nintendo: manchildren regressed to toddlerhood; Xbox: violent kids
Nintendo gamers → PC: "Pirates!" (shaking with rage); PS: booze and a controller; Xbox: CoD
Xbox gamers → PC: old-school bookworms; PS: a towering monster; Nintendo: gross anime otaku
PC gamers see them as literal kids, but PS fans see them as grown men still living in their childhood bedroom
Does the Xbox fanboy playing a PS5 mean PS5 counts as an Xbox too?
Or doesn't it just mean Xbox has been abandoned? lmaooo
Does 'steam' there mean the Steam platform?
• The Xbox Series X is a tall, tower-shaped console with a big vent (a section covered in tiny holes) on top.
• Right after its 2020 launch, some people started posting videos of themselves blowing vape smoke in from underneath. The smoke would billow out the top vent, making it look like "the Xbox is broken and smoking!"
• Because the smoke looked exactly like smoke from a shisha (hookah), the joke "¿Eso es una Xbox o una shisha?" ("Is that an Xbox or a shisha?") went viral overseas, especially in Spanish-speaking regions.
• Microsoft even put out an official statement asking people to stop blowing vape smoke into their Xbox.
Background and key points of this topic
On the Hardware/Industry (Geha) board, derogatory slang mocking fans of each console has long been part of the culture — terms like “Shou-chan” for PlayStation fans and “Chikan” for Xbox fans have been used repeatedly within that subculture. The image behind this topic is said to have been made by a Russian user, and the same “how fans of each console see each other” format reportedly spread widely on overseas social media as well, racking up over a million impressions in a short span. What caught posters’ attention in the thread was how closely the image mirrored Japan’s own console-war arguments — many were surprised that takes like “Nintendo = for kids” and “PS fans have an especially huge gap between self-image and outside perception” turned out to hold true across borders. That said, it’s worth keeping in mind this is just an internet meme and doesn’t necessarily reflect the real makeup of each platform’s user base.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “[Image] A Russian user says “I made an image of how fans of each console see each other” 👈 1 million impressions.”
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