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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/10937445

Putin orders development of homegrown Steam Deck-like gaming machines — 100% self-sufficiency goal apparently applies to gaming, too

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Here is new child’s entertainment. Be grateful to Putin.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bestselling console in Latvia

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where tall Latvian women? 🧐

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Latvian woman are the best, you give them a potato they give you a half-and-half.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Potatoes exist aplenty in my country, with more than a hundred varieties. Do I have this in the bag?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There were times where Irish man would've killed for it. I.. don't even know where I'm going with this. K, thx, bye.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They've already done it ;)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had the top two as a kid. Thanks for the nostalgia!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're welcome :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh hell, I didn't know those were real. I should have guessed though. They turned up in HROT, a very... "Soviet Core" game. If you're worried about the politics of the dev, the final boss is Putin

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"home grown" aka mostly Chinese parts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's the difference then?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That Russia has no capability to produce something like this and isn't China also behind chip wise?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant what's the difference with our game systems? They're mostly all Chinese parts too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I thought most of the major silcon like CPU and GPU chips were from Taiwan, with it being more simpler commodity and board manufacturing being done in the PRC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Taiwan, not PRC. Mainland China isn't capable of making CPUs and GPUs whith the performance and low power draw needed for a portable console in the volumes necessary. They brute-forced their way into a 7nm process, but it's expensive and low yields, so they're using it only for crypto mining ASICs and Huawei phones.

To make a console like the Steam Deck, they would need an AMD64 chip on 5nm. Granted, Zhaoxin does have a licence for X86 architecture (inherited from Via, who got it when they bought Cirix), but they're still far from being able to make those in 7 or 5nm.

Meanwhile, TSMC in Taiwain is already shipping 3nm chips for Apple and soon for AMD too.

Unless China figures out Extreme UV, like in the ASML machines, or direct stamping, like in recently announced Canon machines, they won't be competitive with Intel, TSMC or Samsung anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Built in malware that phones home to the Kremlin, most likely.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

In Soviet Russia, steam decks you!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is going to be a huge success, like the last time when they developed a "homegrown" cellphone.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Well people with connections to the goverment need a way to launder money.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

We see that PM Mishustin needs only to consider and create outline plans for the gaming ecosystem before the period of execution, which is set for June 15, 2024. Of course, preparing meaningful plans is still a big task, but it should be achievable enough for Mishustin to feel relatively safe standing on balconies.

Lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I guess the Ruzzian bread & circuses are getting a bit low on the circus part.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe they’re murderous zealots, but at least they use Leenox /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"and you will all only be allowed to play Pathologic!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"This game makes me feel like the state is irreparably evil."

"You must be doing it wrong, give that to me."

"Blyat."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tbf it has much the same to say of non state forces

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

so they have to develop this on the front during break time?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They have already announced that it will be Intel Atom X5 with 64Gb SSD for around $500

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had more faith in Kim Jong Un making his own theme parks.

There's a lot that can and should be done to break the x86-Windows-Steam monopoly, and I wouldn't mind a huge middle finger to Nvidia, but I do not anticipate Russia doing any of the right things, even for the wrong reasons. At least China's gonna push for weird MIPS and RISC chips.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes just like any other ruler they play risk with real people