Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series

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• Korkki@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But then who on this planet was expecting that.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Unpolitical” Russians?

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  TIL that exists.

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• credo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder how their McRonald’s is doing?

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s doing fine.

    McDonald’s is a franchise, as you know. So Russia simply has a “pirate McDonald’s” with different branding. With “pirate Coke” among the drinks.

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    • independantiste@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They got that Sespi and that 8Down

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• K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The Nintendo Switch can’t match PS5 or XBOX either, yet outsells both.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nintendo intentionally under powers their stuff to cut down on costs in order target the all encompassing “family” demographic. It’s like their whole schtick since the Wii (The GameCube was the last time iirc they tried to compete with the Xbox/PS)

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This has been their schtick since Game and Watch.

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    • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Technically the Wii U was the most powerful console at the time it released.

      But only because it released towards then end of the Xbox 360 / PS3 lifecycle, so it was a very short time period until it was once again severely underpowered compared to Xbox any Playstation

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  • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    • Neither PS5 or XBOX are mobile
    • Switch also targets a different audience
    • As long as the hardware is competent, the software matters a lot.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thankfully Nintendo has fun games. Not going to hold my breath for anything good on the ladabox

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The nintendo switch isn’t trying to compete with Microsoft or Sony. They do their own thing on purpose.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Which is completely refreshing. If their lawyers weren’t so terrible and they were more open to digital preservation, they’d basically be the perfect gaming company. Their games are high quality at launch, fun for years of replayability, and the hardware is really reliable. They focus on the most important part of gaming: fun.

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Switch mostly lives on the talent and creativity of Nintendo devs. Russia seems to be lacking in the quantity and quality in that regard as well.

    Honestly, I would expect Russia to shoot more for PC gaming, rather than console gaming. But that would almost certainly require using home-grown or Chinese semiconductors. I’m not sure there are too many homegrown Russian semiconductor fabs, and Chinese chips aren’t known for their high performance like Taiwanese (TSMC, and by extension nVidia, AMD) and American chips (Intel) are.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      talent and creativity

      Idk, Russian hackers have plenty of talent and creativity.

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    • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I only know of one Russian game. Tetris.

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• CoffeeWire@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Have they tried threatening the console with nukes?

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• john89@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why would they bother focusing on consoles at all?

  They would be way more successful investing in game developers.

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  • Konstant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How would they sell their games to other countries?

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• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wish them good luck!

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  • ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is that guy really crying?

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• ATDA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean if it exists and isn’t just an old PC that’d be a miracle. If memory serves they got like 3 months or so to develop a plan…

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah there are a lot of things you can’t do when you’re half drunk all the time.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think stats show that Russians are less drunk generally than Scandinavians (not a very surprising statement admittedly) and Baltic people and even Armenians and Georgians. And than Irish (again no surprise I suppose).

    What Russians are, according to stats, is people who have tea too often. And I don’t think that had a negative effect on the British Empire, but then UK might be more drunk generally than Russia.

    So perhaps being drunk is, in some unknown way, a civilization-level advantage.

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    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So perhaps being drunk is, in some unknown way, a civilization-level advantage

      I can get behind that.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s actually advanced chip production. They can’t buy them because those chips are also really good for weapons. And making them requires tech they don’t have. (But will at some point)

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• chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  waiting for this release

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