Putastation?
Putin's 'sovereign' gaming console projects detailed, found lacking
Submitted 4 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 months 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!
tal@lemmy.today 4 months 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.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 months 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.
smeg@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Geopolitics aside, this is at least quite interesting
rikudou@lemmings.world 4 months ago
Is it, really? Sounds pretty much exactly how I would’ve imagined a Russian made gaming console would go.
smeg@feddit.uk 4 months ago
I like setting what people can throw together out of weird bits and bobs like an architecture I’d never even heard of
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
suzune@ani.social 4 months ago
Needs more pink, because they’re out of boys and men to play on it.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months 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.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 months ago
krimson@lemmy.world 4 months ago
SparrowHawk@feddit.it 4 months ago
Bro caught lacking
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months 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. :)
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 months 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 GFLOPSIt can probably run Doom, but likely won’t run Crysis.
The other console, “MTS Fog Play”, is just cloud gaming
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It comes with a monthly gaming subscribtion service ”Kremlinpass”. All games obviously pirated.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes, but can it run Doom?
Mistic@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Doesn’t even make it worth mentioning when listing the crimes of current day Russia.
shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
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LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Hope you don’t think Russia is communist…?
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 4 months 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.
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They’ve gone in a circle back to dictatorship so it doesn’t really matter
Jumi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t really see a difference between then and now
shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I was born behind the Iron Curtain, bruh. Of course I don’t, that’s what makes this meme funny.