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disconnectikacio ,

In orbanistan (hungary) occuppied by soviets for 40 years (but even today orban is in the pocket of putin), we have a joke:
"the problem with soviet/russian microelectronics: the product does not fit through the factory gate"

FlyingSquid ,
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Rosconsole is best Russian console! Play exciting Russian video games!

• Is Drink Borscht Contest

• Vote for Putin

• Call of Russian Duty: Freed Maximum Security Prisoner Ops

• Tetris

• Federation of International Bandy Jam

• Soviet Food Line Simulator

nasi_goreng ,
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    FlyingSquid ,
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    And they'll only use it to steal all of your data!

    Wait, Russia doesn't have a big reputation for hacking and espionage, right?

    realitista ,

    Immediately made me think of this.

    Spez ,

    I bet they will release some rebranded chinese android console with a shitload of cracked games and call it a day.

    xavier666 ,
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    Tracking*

    KingThrillgore ,
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    The Dendy Deck is the most exciting console ever made! I am totally not being held at gunpoint in front of a window right now!

    Rayspekt ,

    Blyatstation is going to be a huge success, trust me.

    Evotech ,

    Guess they can't keep buying Xbox controllers fpr their drones. So they create a console to get kids to play video games and natively learn the new controller they will eventually use on the battlefield

    LifeOfChance ,

    I hate how accurate you are. There's no other reason it would be government backed ESPECIALLY during war time where they're pissing money away and losing their soldiers left and right without be able to fill the open spots.

    Aqarius ,

    From what I hear, the war spending is still pretty low, all things considered. This could just be another autarky subsidy.

    kandoh ,

    Call of Duty is very literally the greatest military recruitment tool the US government has and I'm pretty sure the c-levels at Activision have been full of former state department officials for the last 15 years

    Sniatch ,

    I remember seeing a documentary about Tom Cruise and how the movie Top Gun made lots of young people sign up for the military. Just a fun fact, not arguing against you.

    kandoh ,

    I know that to get the US military to let you use their planes or their boats they need approval on the final film so tobget the really good shots and set pieces you have to let yourself be used as propaganda

    gandalf_der_12te ,
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    Well, the reasons are probably:

    • wanting to develop domestic chips
    • wanting to develop software companies
    • wanting to push russian culture among the young population
    • and others
    mriormro ,
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    Excited for the Blyat Boy Advance

    cupcakezealot ,
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    can't wait for "next to last fantasy" to come out

    Tattorack ,
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    And Smash Bandhooter, Blyat and Jaxter, Guitar-Trompetto, Road Combater, Earthly Fight, 770 Brass Peeper, and of course, let's not forget; Trophy of Courage: Ukrainian Front.

    verity_kindle ,
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    The courage that inspired armies....to steal toilets.

    tacosanonymous ,

    This is certainly a choice.

    I feel bad for the devs they’re going to hold at gunpoint.

    echodot ,

    I wonder if they're going to do digital or physical releases. It would probably save more money if they didn't have physical media.

    Would be funny if Western games companies start getting in on it. Although I suspect that everything on it'll be mobile game quality garbage.

    ascril ,

    I will believe it when I see it. Who will be making games for them, I wonder.

    sunzu ,

    They can just reskin steamdeck and sell pirated content, aint shit anyone can do to stop them.

    sugar_in_your_tea ,

    Do they have the hardware for it? There's an embargo on all of the relevant hardware...

    They can make their own chips, but on super old equipment, so it'll run hot and poorly. So they'll be limited in what domestically produced equipment can run.

    sunzu ,

    Embargo on mid level amd chips?

    They still seem to be getting them either way.

    sugar_in_your_tea ,

    Sure, through black market channels, but that's a very different problem than building a domestic product around a certain chip.

    frezik ,

    Russian programmers are pretty good; don't underestimate them. A lot of them are focused on malware, mind you.

    I don't expect Russia will make a console on par with a PS5, but they might make one closer to the hardware of a SNES Classic mini-console.

    ascril ,

    You are right, but you should remember that a lot of them fled the country to skip conscript. Moreover, games are made a very long time, 4-5 years minimum and it costs a lot of money. And to make independent platform you must create a lot of games because no one will buy it if you can't play at anything.

    ZILtoid1991 ,

    But what about game designers and artists? There's a good reason why eurojank exists.

    tal ,
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    I guess the Kremlin thinks that it's a soft power concern (subversive Western ideas in front of our children's eyeballs), but in all seriousness, this seems way down on the list of things that I'd be worried about if I were them.

    • In terms of exposure to a domestic audience, consoles are closed platforms. They can probably mostly restrict creation and sale of Russian-language content that they find politically-objectionable. That's probably a lot easier and cheaper than trying to produce a new state-subsidized console.

    • Scale matters here. China hasn't done this. If China hasn't done it, I doubt that it's gonna go well for Russia.

    • This is gonna drag people off projects that they're actually gonna need more in terms of import substitution. I mean, direct military stuff aside, your whole economy is gonna have problems with lack of access to stuff from outside.

    • Consoles have a relatively-low gaming marketshare today, due to mobile. They're probably globally the least-important.

    • Of all of the gaming platforms out there, PC, console, and mobile, consoles are the least-useful in terms of non-game applications. If Russia wants to be a player in one of those, consoles would be the last I'd choose. It'd probably be easier to just ban consoles in Russia, if necessary.

    ylai OP , (edited )

    Three side remarks about China, which can be a peculiar example to compare to for Russia, maybe even any other country:

    • They actually banned consoles for a quite significant 15 years (2000–2015), which strongly tilted their market towards PC.
    • Their companies actively make PC-type gaming handhelds, and many of them are even well-established in the business ahead the current “Steam Deck” wave/bandwagon: GPD (once called GamePad Digital, first release in 2016), OneXPlayer (2020), Ayaneo (2021).
    • Chinese gaming companies are quite at the whim of the censorship, and occasional “crackdowns” out of the blue, and many have therefore reoriented themselves for an international audience to de-risk their business.
    AllNewTypeFace ,
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    They could call it the Dendy 360 or something

    Caboose12000 ,

    Soviet jump game 2 when?? 👀

    ECB ,

    Doubtful, given that Dendi is Ukrainian...

    But now that I think of it, he's a Russian speaking Ukranian so maybe he WOULD be their first choice...

    foggy ,

    I'm genuine curious if it's any good.

    Russians are kinda EE experts. If anyone's gonna resolder their GPU...

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