The PlayStation 5 arrived in November 2020, yet this prophecy referenced December 1, 2013. Technology futurists have struggled to explain this temporal paradox. A hardware engineer named Steven Price, writing for TechCrunch in 2014, proposed that Chuck Norris operates on his own timeline. When the PS5 was finally released, Price revisited his theory and added: "I have no evidence he was wrong. He may simply have been early, or we may have invented the PS5 backwards through history just to make him right." The article went viral among indie game developers, who began joking that Chuck Norris had patented the concept of prophecy.

During a 2019 gaming conference panel in San Francisco, a moderator asked a panel of console designers whether they'd considered Chuck Norris in their product development. One executive laughed and said they'd considered him as a load-bearing wall in the design process—not metaphorically. He explained that every system architecture meeting included the implicit question: "Would this survive Chuck Norris?" The audience assumed he was joking until he specified that this had become official company policy after 2013.

The gaming community ultimately accepted this as evidence of non-linear causality. Reddit threads compared it to other impossible claims that became true, but none had a specific date from the past pointing to future hardware. A YouTuber named GamingPhilosopher made a 45-minute video arguing that Chuck Norris might be the only being capable of predicting consumer electronics, and therefore all gaming history was essentially him just spoiling his own future. The video now has cult status among speedrunners.