Category: Games

The PS5 game Marvel’s Wolverine, released on September 15, 2026, saw a 28% price cut on Amazon barely two weeks after launch. Rakuten Books soon followed suit with the same discount. On a 5ch thread in the hardware/industry (“Geha”) board, posters reacted with shock at how fast the price drop came — “That was way too fast a call!” — while others predicted it would soon end up in bargain-bin sales or New Year’s grab bags, and voiced concern over whether it could still hit its first-year sales target. Discussion of what’s driving the discount touched on inventory levels and the used-game market, turning the thread into more than just a price-drop report.

※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Good News] That Wolverine Game Is 28% Off on Amazon! Everyone Hurry!“

The price of the Nintendo Switch 2 sparked heated debate on a 5ch thread. Some users pointed out that once you factor in games and an extra microSD card on top of the console itself, the real cost comes to roughly ¥100,000, prompting complaints that it’s “tough for ordinary people.” That drew pushback along the lines of “it’s absurd not to be able to afford it when you’re paying your taxes,” though plenty of replies seemed baffled since the logic didn’t quite connect. Others noted that even the ¥55,000 domestic PS5 isn’t selling especially well as a point of comparison, suggesting that price alone doesn’t decide how well a console catches on.

*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Gehad)) thread “I want to buy a Switch 2, but….”

Santa Monica Studio announced on X (formerly Twitter) that “God of War Laufey will be released on disc” — only for the announcement to be retracted shortly after. It then came out on 5ch that the actual physical edition doesn’t contain a Blu-ray disc at all, just a piece of paper with a download code inside the box. This sparked sarcastic jabs at the developer’s defense that “we never said Blu-ray disc,” along with growing concern over Sony’s move away from physical packaging. The debate also spilled over into arguments about the protagonist’s character design.

Santa Monica says Laufey will get a disc version

We can confirm God of War Laufey will be available on disc.

↓ Canceled

Source: x.com / Original post here

12AnonymousSep 29, 2026 19:27

Overseas it's business as usual
Too bad, can't run a smear campaign on this one

14AnonymousSep 29, 2026 19:29

Re: #12

65AnonymousSep 29, 2026 19:48

She actually looks good in this one

71AnonymousSep 29, 2026 19:50

Re: #65
That hair that's constantly flowing in the wind bugs me

75AnonymousSep 29, 2026 19:54

Re: #65
Looks like a mom from an old American TV drama lol

78AnonymousSep 29, 2026 19:57

She just looks like some cringe middle-aged lady in a costume that doesn't suit her
Zero appeal, seriously — now I get why there aren't more games with a middle-aged woman as the lead

82AnonymousSep 29, 2026 19:58

Re: #78
No bust, no buy

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “GOW Laufey’s disc version canceled…code in box.”

A post went up on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board arguing that “the Switch 2 + PC combo should be the obvious optimal answer, yet people get furious when you say so.” Some posters noted that gaming setups used to require owning every home console from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo plus a PC to be fully covered, whereas now a Switch 2 and a PC (plus a smartphone/tablet) is enough. The thread also drifted into side debates about PC heat and fan noise, worries about future price hikes, and how to treat Palworld’s early-access sales.

108AnonymousSep 30, 2026 08:18

I'm also running the combo of a PC with an RTX 5070 Ti and a Switch 2. Best pairing there is ❤

※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “The Switch 2 + PC combo is the ultimate setup, yet some people get abnormally angry when you say so — what’s their deal?.”

An aggregated image circulating online claims that sales of Marvel’s Wolverine for PS5 have fallen 75% in Japan and 60% in Europe compared to its predecessor, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, sparking discussion on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board. The previous title reportedly sold around 2.5 million units worldwide in its launch window, so a simple extrapolation suggests Wolverine’s worldwide sales could be stuck in the hundreds of thousands. Posters in the thread were divided over the terms of Sony’s contract with Marvel, the outlook for recouping development costs, and whether the comparison is even valid given how much the ratio of digital sales has shifted since the last game.

■ Japan: -75%

PS5 Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

77,348 units

Source: i.imgur.com / Original post here

23AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:46

Post your source properly.

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[Sad News] Wolverine Sales Down 75% in Japan, 60% in Europe vs. Predecessor, Total Flop 😭.”

From 9:00 PM on September 29, 2026, Juice=Juice’s Sakura Ishiyama and Ayakari Endo appeared in a co-op game livestream titled “Two-Person Super Co-op Game SP” on Famitsu’s YouTube channel “Famitsu Game Livestream Ch” and the Niconico show “Haro Tsuu GAMES.” The stream became a hot topic on the 5ch Hello! Project board after its concurrent viewer count topped 3,000 — posters brought up past numbers like a solo stream by a popular Angerme member hitting 1,561 viewers and a Morning Musume Rhythm Heaven stream exceeding 5,000, sparking debate over whether “is that even an impressive number” and whether “the agency might be buying the concurrent-viewer count.”

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[Breaking] Juice=Juice’s unpopular members Sakura Ishiyama and Ayakari Endo’s minor-game livestream on “Haro Tsuu GAMES” tops 3,000 concurrent viewers!“

A thread titled “Turns out the Zelda series was full of ripoffs…” on the Hardware/Industry (Geha) board turned into a rundown of popular Zelda elements alongside similar features from other companies’ games. Users brought up Luigi’s Mansion vs. Ghostbusters, the towers in Wind Waker vs. the towers in Assassin’s Creed, and Splatoon vs. the reportedly unreleased “Color Wars,” among other examples, one after another. The discussion also touched on how Masahiro Sakurai has acknowledged that Ocarina of Time’s targeting system had earlier precedents. The debate that dragged on longest was whether “Z-Targeting” counts as a lock-on feature, with opinions split over how to interpret the wording of an official Nintendo interview.

32AnonymousSep 29, 2026 19:52

Yeah, this one's blatant.

38AnonymousSep 29, 2026 19:57

Turns out Splatoon's a ripoff too…

56AnonymousSep 29, 2026 20:24

Re: #38
Color Wars never actually got released in the end.

120AnonymousSep 29, 2026 21:14

Re: #38
No idea what game that even is, but seriously, this is rough….. Now I look like an idiot for praising the first one…..

45AnonymousSep 29, 2026 20:15

Re: #43
Even Sakurai himself admits Ocarina of Time wasn't the first to do it.

47AnonymousSep 29, 2026 20:17

Re: #45
Z-Targeting isn't actually a lock-on feature, you know?

50AnonymousSep 29, 2026 20:20

Re: #47
Wait, so you're saying Nintendo is lying?

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/interview/aqej/vol5/index5.html

55AnonymousSep 29, 2026 20:22

Re: #50
Lol, citing Nintendo itself as your source is a power move.

58AnonymousSep 29, 2026 20:25

Re: #50
It's literally described right above that as "a feature meant to solve issues like how to handle the camera and how to deal with one-against-many battles."
Did you actually read it, or did you just have AI spit that quote out for you?

90AnonymousSep 29, 2026 20:43

Z-Targeting is a feature meant to solve 3D-game problems like "it's hard to precisely move the protagonist toward a target" and "it's hard to control the camera."
It's not a feature for automatically landing attacks on enemies.

92AnonymousSep 29, 2026 20:45

Re: #90
Yeah, yeah, but Nintendo already admitted it's lock-on.


What you're saying is just wishful thinking and delusion.

93AnonymousSep 29, 2026 20:46

Re: #92
Nintendo explains it as a feature meant to solve the complexity of camera and character control.

113AnonymousSep 29, 2026 21:05

There's also the Great Deku Tree example.

115AnonymousSep 29, 2026 21:09

I thought nobody had done this before 😭


Turns out Mega Man Legends (Rockman DASH) beat them to it 😭

119AnonymousSep 29, 2026 21:12

Re: #115
I love how Sakurai already shut this down.

*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[Sad News] Turns Out the Zelda Series Was Full of Ripoffs…“.

A thread appeared on 5ch’s Hardware & Industry (“Geha”) board about a poster who meant to type “ephemeral” (泡沫, houmatsu) but had it autocorrect to “splash” (飛沫, himatsu) instead — then, trying to fix the mistake, mistyped it again into the nonsense word “millet pine” (粟松, awamatsu). Adding insult to injury, another user misread that “粟松” as “chestnut pine” (栗松, kurimatsu), triggering a chain of three separate typos in a row. While the thread erupted in laughter with comments like “this is basically a comedy skit at this point,” some posters singled out the original poster for ridicule, others speculated the errors came from voice-to-text input, and the back-and-forth mockery kept going for a while.

※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware & Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Sad News] Nintendo Fanboy (“Ninty Pig”) Meant to Write “Millet Pine” But Wrote “Splash” Instead lol.”

On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry board — known as “Geha” (ゲハ), a notoriously contentious console-war subforum of Japan’s largest anonymous forum — a game developer’s lament that “too many customers wait for download sales” went viral. Posters agreed that waiting for a price drop is nothing new, but repeatedly pointed out that the people who used to buy at full price on release day were the very same crowd who used to trade physical discs secondhand. Now that secondhand disc trading has gotten harder, that demand has simply shifted over to sales. Commenters also cited titles like Factorio that never go on sale at all, along with how fast Square Enix and Capcom slash prices, converging on the view that it’s publishers’ own pricing — plus gamers’ ever-growing backlogs (“tsumige,” 積みゲー, literally “piled-up games”) — that’s really driving “sale-waiting.”

※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry “Geha” board) thread “Developer: ‘Too many people buying via download sales’ ← Turns out it’s just the old secondhand crowd switching over to download sales.”

During development of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Shigeru Miyamoto said in a 1999 interview that he was surprised by how much the “material” of the game overlapped with Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke, which came out around the same time — and the remark has become a hot topic on 5ch’s hardware/industry board. Sparked by his comment that a horse-riding protagonist and a giant creature ended up in both works by coincidence, the thread saw a string of posts cross-checking timelines to figure out “which one thought of it first.” Discussion also spread to the personnel ties between Nintendo’s art department and Studio Ghibli, along with claims that later entries in the series resemble past works, turning this into more than just a simple “ripoff” debate.

Right after finishing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Shigeru Miyamoto discussed the influence he took from Hayao Miyazaki’s film Princess Mononoke in an interview in the February 1999 issue of the gaming magazine Gēmujin. What’s interesting is that it wasn’t just a case of being influenced — he recalled that the two works, made in production at almost the same time, ended up with “material that was shockingly similar” once finished.

During development, staff had floated ideas of using a unicorn or an elk instead of a horse. In the end, Miyamoto decided, “Let’s go with a horse” — and he said Princess Mononoke played a part in that decision. However, Miyamoto didn’t go into detail about exactly how Princess Mononoke influenced the “let’s go with a horse” call.

He then talked about a similarity involving a mounted archer and a giant Goron. Miyamoto pointed to the scene of Link firing a bow while riding on horseback, and the scene of a giant Goron walking with a mountain in the background. While working on these, he recalled, “it turned out that was basically Ashitaka and the Daidarabotchi — I was honestly floored.”

Source: gamestalk.net / Original article here

9AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:04

Ripoff-tendo (a pun combining パクリ/"pakuri," meaning rip-off, with the "-tendo" of Nintendo)

25AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:16

Re: #9
Tears of the Kingdom's Depths are a straight-up ripoff of the Sea of Corruption from Nausicaä
They're clearly influenced by Ghibli films

34AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:20

44AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:33

Re: #34

Technology's moved forward but they're doing the exact same thing as 18 years ago
They should be ashamed of themselves

36AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:24

Making the protagonist green is Miyamoto's one truly original touch

39AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:28

Re: #36
That's a ripoff of Peter Pan

42AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:30

Re: #39
That's actually Robin Hood

45AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:34

Re: #39
Lol it does look alike

Re: #43
That's just a piece of fan art though

38AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:26

Re: #36
Master Chief Link ("マスチー" is Japanese fan slang for Master Chief from Halo)

43AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:32

Robin Hood

60AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:54

Disney's Robin Hood looks like this

62AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:56

That's a total Ripoff-Link of Peter Pan…

64AnonymousSep 29, 2026 12:59

Re: #62
Damn, that's rough lol

66AnonymousSep 29, 2026 13:08

Re: #62
Don't waste 1.5MB on an image like this lol 🤣

100AnonymousSep 29, 2026 14:27

Re: #62
This is awful lmao
They were already ripping it off back then lol

*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “Miyamoto: ‘Ocarina of Time’ and ‘Princess Mononoke’ Had Shockingly Similar Material.”