Wladimir Putin ordnet die Entwicklung russischer Spielekonsolen, einer Steam-ähnlichen Cloud-Bereitstellung und eines Betriebssystems an

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  1. Sir, we’re running out of young men to send in to be slaughtered.

    Give em one of those game box thingys, they like those.

  3. lol, I don’t even play games, beyond “Snake ‘97” on my phone, but I kinda want one just because I know it’ll be that bad. 

  8. Do they have any educated people left ? Most countries face Brain drain, Russia suffers from brain dead.

  10. In a related story Putin ordered the tide to leave and never come back.

  12. The service shall be called “Coal”–which the consoles will run on and yet still be mildly, inexplicably, radioactive.

  13. …….And of course Putin doesn’t know what any of that “stuff” does……..

  18. To be honest, something like this could be good for Ukraine & the west. Software as grandiose as this is genuinely difficult to develop and while Russia on the whole has a lot of talented devs who could pull that off, it will probably be controlled by the Russian government meaning there’s a pretty high likelihood of it ending up as an absolute vaporware money sink.

    Even the A-listers struggle in this regard nowadays, now bring into that the mix an upstart governed by old, corrupt and out of touch politicians and you will likely have an absolute shitshow on your hands.

  20. Russia hasn’t had an operating system in a long time. They’ve had a sclerotic system at best.

  22. Putin: “If the west is too afraid to make Half Life 3 then we will!”

  23. They should block Russians from online play with westerners. Like please, just do it.

  24. Russian game consoles seems easy enough. Order bulk of those knockoffs you see on Temu and other less than reputable sites.

    An OS and a storefront that won’t be sued into oblivion? That’s a bit tricker.

  25. Meanwhile in reality: “[Over 50% of Russian-made microchips defective](https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-50-russian-made-microchips-120900134.html)”

    >Over half of the Baikal processors, a cornerstone of Russia’s tech self-reliance efforts, turned to be defective, Russian outlet Vedomosti reported on March 26.

    >The Baikal processors’ final and critical production phase, chip packaging, was carried out at the Taiwanese TSMC factory, yielding approximately 130,000 units annually for Baikal Electronics. The sanctions imposed on Russia severed this vital partnership, prompting a shift to domestic production.

    >In a bid to counteract these challenges, Russia endeavored to kickstart processor production within its borders at a facility in Kaliningrad Oblast.

    >This initiative fell short, marred by outdated technology and a workforce lacking in necessary expertise. Due to outdated equipment and insufficient qualifications of the employees involved in the enclosure, more than 50% of the finished products turned out to be defective.

    >Russia faces difficulties in its quest for technological independence amidst ongoing sanctions and international isolation.

  27. But, seriously, a friend of mine had a Russian bootleg NES console when we were kids. It played the games fine, but the controllers sucked. I don’t know how it ended up in Canada though.

    Not sure what Russian gamers would have to expect now.

  29. Cool, can Steam start blocking russian IPs then too? Would certainly cut down on cheaters in competitive games, and personally, I don’t think Russia deserves to have access to western past-times that easily. Let them make their own and go full USSR again. Isolate them completely and let the population do something about their government or suffer the consequences of having to jump through hoops to use the services they’ve grown accustomed to.

  30. Huh, didn’t expect Russia to go full North Korea that quickly.

  32. My neighbour Vladimir, he is real pain in my assholes.

    I get a step, he must get a step.

    I get a window from a glass, he must get a window from a glass.

    I develop a highly successful console and online gaming platform, he cannot afford.

    Great success.

  33. Can we finally cut off Russia from Steam, Google, Android, iOS, cloud providers, etc.?

  34. Yeah because a 71 year old really cares about the Russian gaming scene. Nothing to do with control, spying or anything other nefarious. Putin just want’s the youth to have fun.

  37. THANK YOU PUTIN!!!

    I’m trying to be nice, but I really HATE the Russian players who contribute some content on Steam, and it’s trash. Worse for me, because it seems the only Guide makers are often Russian gamers.

    Some Russian contributors are honestly trying to be good contributors to Steam games, but damn the ration to good to bad content is skewed.

    Beside that, I doubt Steam/Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo are gonna be forgiving since Russia has gone back to Piracy.

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