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“PC Gaming Didn’t Just Die | It Was Murdered”…According to Nintendo Switch Fanboy

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Somewhere on YouTube, a Switch stan just declared Steam dead — and the internet showed up to bury the take instead.

Griffin Gaming built a channel on reacting to gaming’s worst hot takes, and in this video he found a genuine gem: a self-declared Nintendo Switch fanboy who used the viral “Didn’t Just Die | It Was Murdered” essay format to argue the Switch had personally ended PC gaming and Valve’s Steam storefront. Griffin doesn’t play it straight. He calls the guy “the cringiest Nintendo Switch fanboy on YouTube” and a “full blown console clown,” and spends the video walking through just how detached the original claim is from reality.

• The reaction video responds to a specific YouTuber who claimed the Nintendo Switch “murdered” PC gaming and Steam, co-opting the popular “Didn’t Just Die | It Was Murdered” video essay format.
• Griffin Gaming labels the creator “the cringiest Nintendo Switch fanboy on YouTube” and a “full blown console clown” while debunking the premise point by point.
• The video is framed as comedy commentary, not economic analysis — Griffin treats the original claim as one of the worst anti-PC-gaming videos he’s seen, not a serious argument worth taking at face value.

A Format Built for Outrage, Turned Against Its User

The “X Didn’t Just Die | It Was Murdered” template became a recognizable shorthand across YouTube essay culture for eulogizing something — a franchise, a genre, a platform — with maximum dramatic flair. It’s built for hyperbole by design. So when a Switch partisan borrowed the format to argue Nintendo’s hybrid console had single-handedly ended PC gaming and wiped out Steam, he wasn’t just making a claim; he was making it in the loudest, most self-serious wrapper available.

That’s exactly the tension Griffin Gaming exploits. Reaction and commentary channels thrive on finding creators who take console-war tribalism past the point of self-parody, and this video gave him a target that essentially wrote its own punchline. The original creator wasn’t trolling, according to Griffin — he seemed dead serious about the argument, which is precisely what made it ripe for ridicule rather than rebuttal.

Debunking the “Steam Is Dead” Premise

The core claim Griffin dismantles is straightforward: that Nintendo Switch sales and hybrid-console convenience have rendered PC gaming and Valve’s digital storefront obsolete. Griffin treats this as self-evidently false and spends much of the video mocking the reasoning rather than constructing a formal counter-essay — the video is comedic reaction content, not a rival documentary.

“This guy went full blown console clown, and it is honestly hilarious.”

That line captures the whole approach. Griffin isn’t interested in a point-by-point economic rebuttal so much as holding the original video up as an example of how far console-war tribalism can drift from anything resembling an honest read of the gaming market.

Commentary Culture Feeding on Console Wars

What makes this video a useful snapshot of YouTube gaming culture in 2019 isn’t the underlying argument — it’s the ecosystem around it. Console-war content has always been a reliable engine for views, and reaction channels like Griffin’s have built entire followings by responding to the most extreme takes rather than the measured ones. A calm, hedged video about platform market share doesn’t generate a reaction video; a video insisting the Switch “murdered” Steam does.

Viewers interested in the platform side of that argument, rather than the meme side, can find plenty of real coverage elsewhere on where PC hardware and storefronts actually stand — including deep dives on building gaming rigs and breakdowns of console market history like brands with best-selling video game consoles from 1972 to 2019, both of which put actual numbers behind platform comparisons instead of essay-format hyperbole.

Griffin Gaming never claims to settle the console-versus-PC debate for good — that’s not really the point of a reaction video like this one. He just makes sure the “murder” video gets its moment in front of an audience that’s going to laugh at it rather than nod along, and judging by the comedic framing throughout, that’s exactly the reception he was going for.