To want the PS4 in the playroom

[Stylishkidintheriot]

It’s currently in the living room. Whenever DS has friends over they now congregate in the living room to play on it.

DH thinks it belongs in the living room as he needs it to watch football.

i say If he needs to watch football on it, he should go to the playroom.

both rooms are nicely decorated and have a sofa to sit on btw.

yabu: leave the PS4 where it is
yanbu: into the playroom for the PS4

YANBU! It would drive me mad in the living room

Change the rooms around and use the play room as the living room ?

If both rooms are so nice what is the problem exactly?

@Hawkins001 Nooooooo.... the living room is bigger and has a beautiful bay window. And has room for the fancier sofas.

Playroom for the PS4. Although I didn't know you could watch football via a PS4. DH goes to our playroom to watch it on Sky / BBC Sport whatever.

Playroom!
DH can bring it in when he wants to watch footy it's just a plug tell him

I’d put it in the playroom and buy a firestick or similar for whatever app he’s using on the PS4 to watch football.

I have no bloody idea why football needs to be watched on the PS4. All I know is that it apparently does.

i have so little interest in the PS4 that I wouldn’t know how to switch it on.

My DC have now taken both playroom and living room and get cross when I use living room!!

Don’t be like us!

yanbu

Yanbu at all. We use an old tv screen in another room for consoles. I like the living room for all things not gaming. The dcs can play indicidual hand held devices with headphones in the living room but nothing with noise/using the TV. That's what the other space is for.

I don't see what the decor has to do with anything! We don't have a playroom, but I think YABU. We have our PS5 in the living room. It is what we use to watch Netflix and DVDs, and ds and dh use it to play games. I'm perfectly happy for my dc and their friends to be in the living room.

Buy a mini fridge for the playroom
Fill it with cans of pop..
Watch the dc disappear.
Ime.

We use the PlayStation to watch anything on Sky as we watch on Sky Go. I can't help you with where the Playstation should go though. Are you going to present the poll results to your husband and hope that changes his mind?

My set up is in the living room but I only play when I'm alone. It's rude otherwise. Kids set up is in the playroom

In your case you have a perfectly good playroom so absolutely no reason to have it where it is.
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I'd definitely put it in the playroom, what is the point in having a playroom if not for children & friends to chill in?

No way I'd have the living room taken over by gaming teens!

Suggest buying a PS5 and putting that in the playroom. That’ll be a winner with the kids. 🤣

Living room. Why should DH's interest mean he has to go off to the playroom? He's an adult and he wants to watch football in his nice living room.

Rename the playroom as "the gaming room".

We had similar when we moved house as I wanted to have a "nice" living room (nice light room at the front with big bay window) and a kids tv/gaming room (actually a bigger room but in the basement). We put a bigger telly in the basement room and called it a "cinema room". That sold it to them! They're also allowed to have food down there and make a mess because I can just shut the door and not look!

Watching others gaming or watching a sport in which you have no interest in is mind numbing ime.

On the aspect of watching others play the game, yes it's not the same as yourself playing but it can be handy to learn methods and tatics, etc

I'd say because it's not just the football, it's also DC and their friends commandeering the living room to play on the PS4 when they could be in the playroom, leaving the living room free.

If it was just the football thing I'd say let it stay put too, but a bunch of kids all sat in the living room playing PS4 when there's a perfectly good playroom?? I'd definitely move it if we could sort another way for DH to watch the footie.

I'd keep it in the living room to make it easier to police what the DC are doing on the PS4 but then move it into the playroom when they have friends over. Having said that, if I was your DC, I'd want it in the playroom specifically so you didn't know what I was doing on the PS4 so I don't think it should be a big deal if you move it permanently. Your DH can easily move it back temporarily to watch the football, presuming that you aren't already watching something else in the living room.

I have never ever played a games console and have no interest. The dc would never expect to take over the communal TV.

The dc would never expect to take over the communal TV.

Surely 'taking over' the communal tv would be insisting on using it for one thing while others were wanting to use it for something else? The OP doesn't say her dc are doing that. They are just...using it. It's communal, so presumably anyone in the family is allowed to use it.

Could you get a fire stick or equivalent for the TV which means he can watch football in the living room without the PS4. Presuming you need the PS4 as your TV isn’t a smart TV?