PS5 owners are getting really touchy about the rise of Xbox – Reader’s Feature

metro.co.uk:

A reader accuses PS5 owners of being thin-skinned when it comes to criticism and insists there’s no reason to fear the Xbox becoming dominant.

I’ve been enjoying the weekend Reader’s Features for a long time now and am always impressed by the quality of the writing, considering everyone is just an amateur, and the wide range of topics within our shared hobby. However, it’s clear that the most common point of discussion is the PlayStation 5: its value for money, its games, its design, and its rivalry with the Xbox.

In terms of raw numbers, the PlayStation 5 has sold twice as much as the Xbox Series X, so PlayStation fans should be feeling pretty confident that their format is a winner and is unlikely to see its early lead taken away from it. What’s obvious from seeing people talking online though, including in Reader’s Features and their comments, is that actually PlayStation owners are very thin-skinned.

They take every criticism, mild as it might be, of the console or its games as a personal insult and hurl threats and abuse at the slightest provocation. I’d like to pretend to myself that these are probably all just kids doing it but, let’s face it, we all know they’re not.

Before I go on, I want to make it clear that I am a PlayStation 5 owner, and it is currently my only console. So I understand completely the underlying concerns about whether you’ve backed the wrong horse or whether a company you’ve been happy to support for years is up against a rival that’s now above their weight category.

I’m upset about Sony games being £70 and I look enviously at Game Pass, while eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the PlayStation equivalent – and secretly knowing that it’ll never be as generous, simply because Sony can’t afford for it