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Putin's 'sovereign' gaming console projects detailed, found lacking

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/putins-sovereign-gaming-console-projects-detailed-one-with-a-homegrown-elbrus-cpu-the-other-a-chinese-knockoff-russian-govt-admits-the-consoles-cant-compete-with-ps5-or-xbox

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  • shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Hope you don’t think Russia is communist…?

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      • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s a failed state where the tinpot dictator who runs it is also a gangster who runs rackets out of all national industries. That’s the only kind of state that Communism has ever produced, so you might as well call it that.

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      • icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They’ve gone in a circle back to dictatorship so it doesn’t really matter

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      • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I don’t really see a difference between then and now

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Putastation?

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    • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nice one! It’s honestly too bad they didn’t actually call it Putastation or Putabox! Putabox would have been even better IMO. That would have been so hilarious!

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    • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Putendo

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Pubox

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Interestingly, Gorelkin emphasized that the console should not merely serve as a platform for porting old games but also for popularizing domestic video games.

    Apparently state-subsidized efforts have not yet popularized domestic games on their own.

    youtube.com/watch?v=REGKtrAHsnA

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Interestingly, Gorelkin emphasized that the console should not merely serve as a platform for porting old games

    How the fuck does the Russian government have better priorities than Sony.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Geopolitics aside, this is at least quite interesting

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Is it, really? Sounds pretty much exactly how I would’ve imagined a Russian made gaming console would go.

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I like setting what people can throw together out of weird bits and bobs like an architecture I’d never even heard of

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      • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m not sure if you’re into spaceflight but SpaceX caught a booster with a pair of chopsticks. It went exactly how you would expect it to go and was interesting as hell. There’s probably a lot of things that go the way they’re supposed to but I don’t think that is what takes away from it being interesting. Also different strokes for different folks.

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  • suzune@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Needs more pink, because they’re out of boys and men to play on it.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Putin releases the RuskieStation. It’s fine. Not awesome or anything. Shortly after, Yum! Co. finally releases the KFConsole. Plays every game, even ones from the future, at 8k in real time FPS while also cooking an entire KFC meal for you. For only $299.

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      With blackjack and hookers !

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  • krimson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Raid over Moscow

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  • SparrowHawk@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Bro caught lacking

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  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “It is obvious to everyone: Elbrus processors are not yet at the level required to compete equally with the PS5 and Xbox, which means the solution must be unconventional.”

    That unconventional approach could involve either simplifying games to the degree that Elbrus CPUs can handle (the Russian audience still has access to world-class games and would likely not play those ‘simplified’ games)

    Oh, let’s not be hasty. Nintendo has had great success with underpowered consoles, and Tetris is a shining example of this sort of thing. :)

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    On the performance side of things, Elbrus has nothing to write home about based on benchmarks that have largely found it “completely unacceptable” for most tasks.

    (in a linked article) The testers cited “Insufficient memory, slow memory, few cores, low frequency. Functional requirements not been met at all” as key reasons for the failure.
    Elbrus-8C: 8C/8T, 1.30 GHz, 16MB L3, 70W TDP, quad-channel DDR3-1600 memory, 28nm, 250 FP64 GFLOPS

    It can probably run Doom, but likely won’t run Crysis.

    The other console, “MTS Fog Play”, is just cloud gaming

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  • Lootboblin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It comes with a monthly gaming subscribtion service ”Kremlinpass”. All games obviously pirated.

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, but can it run Doom?

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    • Mistic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Knowing our “sovereign” projects, no. No, it cannot.

      Don’t get me wrong, there is some really cool tech stuff we create, but whenever it gets political, it’s just theft of budget money.

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      • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Doesn’t even make it worth mentioning when listing the crimes of current day Russia.

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