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It's totally possible if they subsidize hardware costs and sell a PC with a fancy frontend and small form factor.
It's completely impossible if they're looking for custom hardware.
This is what I was thinking. For a first iteration to get out the door immediately it could just be windows with a "game browser" that launches full screen when you turn it on π
I mean, that's what all Steam Deck competitors really are. They're Windows 11 with atrocious launchers on top, some of which acceptable and some very buggy, plus a literal standard AMD APU that AMD is selling by the bucket, and half of them share board designs sold by Chinese suppliers pretty much ready made.
Thatβs literally what the original Xbox was
They at least did the courtesy of deleting the Windows UI, though.
It wouldn't be Windows, it'd probably be a variant of Astra Linux.
The year of Linux may finally be among us.
so... repackage a pi?
I look forward to the release of the Blyatbox "October Revolution" edition console.
With preinstalled Gulag survival simulator that you have to pay to get removed.
Out of touch and delusional, what's new.
He is the Russian equivalent of a baby boomer mandating with the implied threat of death that his own government pay a single shitty local satellite set-top box distributor (let's be real, it's likely just cheap chinese hardware) to develop and spread Russian culture through video game media in less than three months (which is probably already developed and was waiting for more money to market and enter production).
Sounds like he is very in touch, because that is one of the ways how U.S. culture is spreading throughout the world currently.
Sounds like he is very in touch, because that is one of the ways how U.S. culture is spreading throughout the world currently.
With the absolutely stonking caveat that the US government didn't mandate that, it just happened naturally over time. Over decades and decades. Particularly helped by the US speaking English. In a lot of parts of the world English is a good second language.
But the only people who speak Russian is Russia. No one has Russian is their second language outside of a few Baltic states and even then often it's a tertiary language, not a true second language. This is a huge limiter on their ability to spread culture.
Gaming is of upmost importance to the health of a nation. Future wars will be done through esports.
If only
Sorry guys, we're under dictator rule now. We should be getting some food coupons next week, otherwise we'll starve. If only xxx_Epicl33tGamer69_xxx didn't let us down in the big game last night. Oh well, such is life.
We have Π‘ΡΠΈΠΌ ΠΠ΅ΠΊ at home:
On one hand even the Nintendo Switch is just a modified Nvidia shield so this task would be a simple one for most states. On the other hand: Sanctions and insane corruption. Iβd be surprised if they manage to release anything that could keep up with Consoles from 2 generations ago.
I love how he's modernizing the punch lines to all the old Soviet jokes.
if it's normally 3 years just hire 12x as many developers and it'll be fine.
Yeah, everyone knows 9 women can generate a baby in 1 month.
At one point in time Russia actually had their own computer system back in the '80s. So I guess just dust that off?
It died because it had non-square pixels, because that's not stupid, and so was a pain to develop any games for.
The Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 did okay for themselves with non-square pixels.
Guess what other obscure old system used rectangular pixels? The IBM PC.
CGA and EGA used resolution modes that were multiples of 320x200 (PAR 6:5). VGA's 16-color hi-res mode was the first to support square pixels at 640x480, and it would become a standard for years to come because TempleOS and Windows used it (you can even force Windows 7 to run in this mode!)
The NES and SNES had PAR ~~16:15~~ 8:7 (oops) (which is often ignored in emulation), and so did the most common NTSC DVD-Video mode (none of the commonly used ones had square pixels but you only really notice it with subtitles - you cannot correctly display them at native resolution on an LCD).
And that's just the successful systems I know off the top of my head.
Soviet personal computers failed for other, obvious reasons. They struggled to copy the latest chips, and the economic incentive was minuscule despite the government's investment - very few people could afford a computer in the Eastern Bloc, and they could not be exported due to patent infringement and being years behind. The economy collapsed after USSR broke up and nobody wanted to invest to rebuild the industry.
That being said, people in the Eastern Bloc were very resourceful with what they had (mostly clones of Atari's 8-bit home computers and IBM PCs). A blind person from Czechoslovakia made a speech synthesis sound card for an IBM-compatible PC, which functioned well enough to allow him to be employed as a full-time programmer. At least one of the three exemplars works to this day.
The story is way more interesting. Cannot dig the article, but dropping soviet originated hardware had to do also with programming languages. Western entities started with heavy lobbing, often dressed as grass root movement, for languages that for western based systems.
Not sure how well supported this thesis was, but it was interesting that preferences of engineers got used for market absorption.
Not a new thing by today's standards.
Taking console wars to the next level
lol
Is that all it takes? π€£
Hey when the KGB is standing in the corner looking serious, you bet those engineers will have the "stats" to prove it's competitive.
Wait, what? He is senile, but not THAT much. Although he was senile enough for war.
To be fair he probably doesn't even know what game console is.
Russia probably wants high powered chips for military use. Fronting it as an entertainment initiative may entice more investors.
Maybe. Or if you're engrossed in videogames, you don't care your neighbor is drafted.
Or theyβre gonna make video games that are suspiciously like piloting drones
Why?
To show that their Economy isn't struggling from sanctions and to give the people what they want: entertainment.
There is a lot going wrong in Russia right now and Putler needs a win.
Some kid beat him in Fortnite and now he wants his own console system to ban the kid from (and probably track them down)
Probably because Putin just found out the population sucks at flying drones.
This is new consoleβ¦Fun Barrel. For 20 liters of kerosene, you can play all night if the coolant doesnβt ignight.
It'll be able to know when your draft-dodging ass is home, so it can send some nice FSB gentlemen to come give you a lift.
They will basically buy one clone off of AliExpress, stamp a new name and be done with it.
Plot twist: It will be a PC with 486DX2-compatible CPU.
They have x86 equivalent. Maybe 64.
"Eat verification bullet to continue"
So the main task would be writing the custom OS, which with enough coders and a coherent plan could theoretically be done.
The hardware will just be a small form factor computer or gaming laptop in a box, with a controller attached.
It will be deconstructed day one, and what hardware they went with will be revealed.
It'll either be janky Linux or cracked Windows, on an off-the-shelf Chinese board in a cheap case with joysticks that barely work.