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.
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 😂
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.
That’s literally what the original Xbox was
They at least did the courtesy of deleting the Windows UI, though.
It wouldn’t be Windows, it’d probably be a variant of Astra Linux.
The year of Linux may finally be among us.
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
Essentially just Playnite then?
So? That’s literally an Xbox…
It’s literally not an Xbox.
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
so… repackage a pi?
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.
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.
It’s totally gonna be a bunch of pirated games and a copy of Launchbox/Playnite lol
That’s literally what the original Xbox was
There was nothing small about the original Xbox.
Every time I see an original Xbox I’m always amazed because in my memory it was a lot smaller. I used to carry that thing to and from school I have no idea how I managed that.
All hail The Duke!
Original Xbox had custom OS. It run on something similar to Windows 2000 (NT 5) kernel though.
Was just a skin on win 2k and contained an intel chip.
It was just a PC in a box.
And not even a very optimized one.
I look forward to the release of the Blyatbox “October Revolution” edition console.
With preinstalled Gulag survival simulator that you have to pay to get removed.
Gamedroog 512
Will be released with The Gelendzik Siege game.
Out of touch and delusional, what’s new.
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.
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.
… with software and hardware development. Literally what the article talks about.
Gaming is of upmost importance to the health of a nation. Future wars will be done through esports.
If only
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.
The whole point of league of legends
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.
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.
It’s fun though. It has its age, but still there’s nothing like it.
I’m not talking about gameplay, the league of legend in its lore is there to prevent real world war
There was an episode of Star Trek about this.
Future Russian parlement: We will crush, nuke and bury whatever will be left. In Quake.
We have Стим Дек at home:
I love how he’s modernizing the punch lines to all the old Soviet jokes.
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.
You know Russia has one of the best space programs in the world right?
Exactly. Nobody would expect Japan to land a man on the moon in 3 months just because they’ve been dominating video games forever.
if it’s normally 3 years just hire 12x as many developers and it’ll be fine.
Yeah, everyone knows 9 women can generate a baby in 1 month.
It will be named the BlyatStation
Cyka!
As I said to the other BlyatStation comment. 🤣
Rush B!
At one point in time Russia actually had their own computer system back in the '80s. So I guess just dust that off?
It died because it had non-square pixels, because that’s not stupid, and so was a pain to develop any games for.
The Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 did okay for themselves with non-square pixels.
The story is way more interesting. Cannot dig the article, but dropping soviet originated hardware had to do also with programming languages. Western entities started with heavy lobbing, often dressed as grass root movement, for languages that for western based systems. Not sure how well supported this thesis was, but it was interesting that preferences of engineers got used for market absorption.
Not a new thing by today’s standards.I’m pretty sure there is an English language compiler for it now, but I don’t know when that became available.
Russia has own computers on own processors produced on Micron(not to be confused with Micron Technology). But they are expensive as cast iron bridge and hard to get.
“Expensive as a cast iron bridge” is a great saying. Is that something I’ve just never heard before, or did you coin the phrase?
This is well known phrase in russian. “Стоит как чугунный мост” literally means “costs like cast iron bridge”.
I love it. There’s so much depth there.
Yea it caught my eye too, pretty cool
What are they I doubt they’ll be even 10 nanometer
65 as I remember
Didn’t the NES produce non-square pixels? Like pure data wise the screen was square but at some point in making it NTSC it gets stretched horizontally to 4:3?
Just give him an NES with Battletoads, file off any print, and tell him you made it.
lol
Taking console wars to the next level
Is that all it takes? 🤣
Hey when the KGB is standing in the corner looking serious, you bet those engineers will have the “stats” to prove it’s competitive.
Well it will be competitive. Because all its competition aren’t entering Russia anyway because of sanctions.
The Blyatstation
Cyka!
