The debate that refuses to end
Messi or Ronaldo. Every football group chat in India has had this argument at least once this month, and nobody has ever actually settled it. Two players, two decades of trophies, two completely different cases for why they're the greatest to ever play.
It shows up on the pitch, in comment sections, and in every FIFA and EA Sports FC lobby where someone picks their career-mode icon before the match has even loaded. India doesn't have a club in either of their leagues, and it hasn't mattered — this is one of the few footballing arguments that runs just as hot in Kochi and Kolkata as it does in Madrid.
Subumi just gave the argument somewhere to live outside the group chat: dedicated PS5 and controller skins for both players, plus their two most storied clubs.
Four collections, one long-running argument
The Messi collection and the Ronaldo collection are built the same way: a console skin and a matching DualSense controller skin, cut around each player's own colors and details rather than a generic jersey print stretched over a console shell.
Neither is licensed by the player, their club, or FIFA. It's original fan art, made because we're fans too — not because either of them signed off on it. That's true of every design in the Subumi catalog, and it's worth repeating here since the names involved are this famous.
If you'd rather back the club than the man, the Real Madrid collection and the Barcelona collection exist for the same reason. Two clubs whose rivalry has outlasted several generations of players and still ruins the odd Sunday night for whoever loses El Clásico.
All four are new. If you checked the site a month ago and didn't see a Messi-specific skin, that's because there wasn't one yet — these went live as their own dedicated pages this month, instead of being buried inside a general "football clubs" grid.
Why a console skin, and not just a jersey
A jersey lives in a cupboard. A PS5 sits on a shelf or a TV unit for years, in the room where you actually spend your evenings. If the argument for Messi or Ronaldo, Real Madrid or Barcelona, is part of how you see yourself as a fan, it deserves a spot that isn't folded away.
That's the whole idea behind Subumi: a console isn't "just a PS5" the moment you own one. Fandom on a device isn't decoration — it's closer to how a fan already thinks, just made visible on the one piece of hardware everyone in the room can see.
The same logic already runs across the rest of the catalog — Formula 1 drivers, IPL franchises, superhero universes — because the pattern repeats: something you already care about, made visible on hardware you look at every single day, not tucked away in a wardrobe.
What's actually on the console
Every skin in these four collections is the same material as the rest of the Subumi catalog: 100–120 micron bubble-free polymeric vinyl, finished with a polymeric overlaminate on top. That overlaminate is the sacrificial layer — scratches, UV and everyday handling wear hit it first, not the artwork underneath.
Each design is precision-cut for your exact PS5 variant, Standard or Slim, Digital or Disc. Vents, ports and the light bar are cut to the model, not eyeballed to fit "most" consoles. Applying the console skin needs no heat gun. The DualSense controller skin is the one piece that needs a brief low-heat step, to mold the vinyl into the curved grips — a few minutes, not a full afternoon of fiddling with the trigger wells.
Removal is residue-free, so backing the wrong side of the argument doesn't cost you anything when you resell the console later. Wipe the skin down with a dry microfibre cloth to keep it looking new in the meantime — skip anything wet or alcohol-based.
Console, controller, or both
Pricing follows the same pattern across all four collections: controller skins start at ₹699. Console skins for the two players run a little higher than the two clubs, reflecting the extra detail in each design. Nothing here is bundled by force — buy the console skin on its own, the controller on its own, or match the pair for the full effect on your setup.
None of this needs to be an impulse buy timed to a match result or a transfer rumour. These four collections aren't going anywhere, and neither, in all likelihood, is the argument.
Pick a side
You don't have to resolve the debate to buy into it. Pick the player or the club that's actually yours — not the one that wins the most arguments on Twitter — and put it somewhere you'll see it every time you sit down to play.
Go player-first with the Messi or Ronaldo collections, or club-first with the Real Madrid or Barcelona pages. Either way, your PS5 stops sitting on the fence.
