Back when Vladimir Putin launched his aggressive war on Ukraine, even before western government sanctions began rolling out, the video game industry started its own mini warfront on Russia. Compani…
  • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    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.

    • reflectedodds@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 个月前

      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 😂

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 个月前

        It wouldn’t be Windows, it’d probably be a variant of Astra Linux.

        The year of Linux may finally be among us.

      • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 个月前

        It would have to run steamos or something the complexity of all the always-online launchers that modern triple a games has is something that steam handles well, and likely a huge trip up point on any frontend slapped on a windows pc

      • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 个月前

        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.

          • meathorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 个月前

            That is literally what the first Xbox was. It’s internals was a custom mboard running a Celeron 700 and 3.5" HDD (can’t remember what the graphics was based on, maybe a GeForce MX?) with a customised Win2k OS.

            All approx. It’s early and I can’t be bothered confirming those specs are 100% accurate :p

    • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 个月前

      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.

    • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 个月前

      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.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 个月前

      It’s totally gonna be a bunch of pirated games and a copy of Launchbox/Playnite lol

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    They will basically buy one clone off of AliExpress, stamp a new name and be done with it.

    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      3 个月前

      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.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        3 个月前

        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.

  • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 个月前

    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.

    • FleetingTit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 个月前

      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.

    • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 个月前

      Hey when the KGB is standing in the corner looking serious, you bet those engineers will have the “stats” to prove it’s competitive.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        3 个月前

        Well it will be competitive. Because all its competition aren’t entering Russia anyway because of sanctions.

  • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 个月前

    Gaming is of upmost importance to the health of a nation. Future wars will be done through esports.

    • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 个月前

      Future Russian parlement: We will crush, nuke and bury whatever will be left. In Quake.

      • msage@programming.devEnglish
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        3 个月前

        League of Legends is so bland and uninteresting.

        Just play Dota. It’s the original, far more complex (you can eat trees!), and actually mess with the enemies way more than just dealing chip damage.

        • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 个月前

          I played DotA for 14 years and while I agree it’s better than LoL in every single way I still wouldn’t recommend that anyone actually play it.

        • Noodle07@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 个月前

          I’m not talking about gameplay, the league of legend in its lore is there to prevent real world war

      • Thorry84@feddit.nlEnglish
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        3 个月前

        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.

  • dlpkl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    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.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    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.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 个月前

        Exactly. Nobody would expect Japan to land a man on the moon in 3 months just because they’ve been dominating video games forever.