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Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series
Submitted 10 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/106133-russia-admits-domestic-consoles-cant-match-ps5-or.html
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kratoz29@lemm.ee 10 months ago
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The Nintendo Switch can’t match PS5 or XBOX either, yet outsells both.
cm0002@lemmy.world 10 months 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)
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This has been their schtick since Game and Watch.
Anivia@feddit.org 10 months 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
Bezier@suppo.fi 10 months 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.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thankfully Nintendo has fun games. Not going to hold my breath for anything good on the ladabox
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The nintendo switch isn’t trying to compete with Microsoft or Sony. They do their own thing on purpose.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
talent and creativity
Idk, Russian hackers have plenty of talent and creativity.
unphazed@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I only know of one Russian game. Tetris.
credo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wonder how their McRonald’s is doing?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
independantiste@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They got that Sespi and that 8Down
CoffeeWire@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Have they tried threatening the console with nukes?
realitista@lemm.ee 10 months ago
ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is that guy really crying?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah there are a lot of things you can’t do when you’re half drunk all the time.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So perhaps being drunk is, in some unknown way, a civilization-level advantage
I can get behind that.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 months 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)
john89@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Why would they bother focusing on consoles at all?
They would be way more successful investing in game developers.
Konstant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How would they sell their games to other countries?
ATDA@lemmy.world 10 months 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…
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
waiting for this release
Korkki@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But then who on this planet was expecting that.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Unpolitical” Russians?