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.
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.
I will believe it when I see it. Who will be making games for them, I wonder.
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.
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.
They can just reskin steamdeck and sell pirated content, aint shit anyone can do to stop them.
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.
Embargo on mid level amd chips?
They still seem to be getting them either way.
Sure, through black market channels, but that’s a very different problem than building a domestic product around a certain chip.