Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months
Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months
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.
Gaming is of upmost importance to the health of a nation. Future wars will be done through esports.
If only
Future Russian parlement: We will crush, nuke and bury whatever will be left. In Quake.
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.
Russia has own computers on own processors produced on Micron(not to be confused with Micron Technology). But they are expensive as cast iron bridge and hard to get.
"Expensive as a cast iron bridge" is a great saying. Is that something I've just never heard before, or did you coin the phrase?
Is that all it takes? 🤣
Hey when the KGB is standing in the corner looking serious, you bet those engineers will have the "stats" to prove it's competitive.
Just give him an NES with Battletoads, file off any print, and tell him you made it.
Taking console wars to the next level
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.
This 100% this
lol
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.
Why?
Probably because Putin just found out the population sucks at flying drones.
Some kid beat him in Fortnite and now he wants his own console system to ban the kid from (and probably track them down)
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. I‘d be surprised if they manage to release anything that could keep up with Consoles from 2 generations ago.
You know Russia has one of the best space programs in the world right?
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.
This is new console…Fun Barrel. For 20 liters of kerosene, you can play all night if the coolant doesn’t ignight.
Good for them. 🤷♂️
The funny part is leaders all of the world are going to ask their country to do the same thing too now as none of them realize how ridiculous it is.
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 😂
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.
So? That's literally an Xbox...
There's a guy on youtube called CNCDan who did exactly that. SFF pc in a very nice 3d printed case with custom PCBs for the controller boards. If you're at all interested in that sort of thing I think he has a 9 part series on how he built it.
Just get one of those all in one 4"x4" PCs, slap a logo and a custom Linux distro on it and you have a console.
That’s literally what the original Xbox was
There was nothing small about the original Xbox.
Original Xbox had custom OS. It run on something similar to Windows 2000 (NT 5) kernel though.