I look forward to the release of the Blyatbox “October Revolution” edition console.
Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months
Submitted 4 weeks ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to games@lemmy.world
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Gork@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
random_character_a@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
With preinstalled Gulag survival simulator that you have to pay to get removed.
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Gamedroog 512
uis@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Will be released with The Gelendzik Siege game.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Out of touch and delusional, what’s new.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
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.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
… with software and hardware development.
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Gaming is of upmost importance to the health of a nation. Future wars will be done through esports.
drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
If only
Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
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.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The whole point of league of legends
msage@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
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.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There was an episode of Star Trek about this.
uis@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Future Russian parlement: We will crush, nuke and bury whatever will be left. In Quake.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
On one hand even the Nintendo Switch is just a modified Nvidia shield so this task should be rather simple. On the other hand: Sanctions and insane corruption. I‘d be surprised if they manage to release anything that could keep up with Console from 2 generations ago.
Woozythebear@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You know Russia has one of the best space programs in the world right?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Exactly. Nobody would expect Japan to land a man on the moon in 3 months just because they’ve been dominating video games forever.
kromem@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I love how he’s modernizing the punch lines to all the old Soviet jokes.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
At one point in time Russia actually had their own computer system back in the '80s. So I guess just dust that off?
It it died because it had non-square pixels because that’s not stupid and so was a pain to develop any games for.
grayhaze@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 did okay for themselves with non-square pixels.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
Guess what other obscure old system used rectangular pixels? The IBM PC.
CGA and EGA used resolution modes that were multiples of 320x200 (PAR 6:5). VGA’s 16-color hi-res mode was the first to support square pixels at 640x480, and it would become a standard for years to come because TempleOS and Windows used it (you can even force Windows 7 to run in this mode!)
The NES and SNES had PAR 16:15 (which is often ignored in emulation), and so did the most common NTSC DVD-Video mode (none of the commonly used ones had square pixels but you only really notice it with subtitles - you cannot correctly display them at native resolution on an LCD).
And that’s just the successful systems I know off the top of my head.
Soviet personal computers failed for other, obvious reasons. They struggled to copy the latest chips, and the economic incentive was minuscule despite the government’s investment - very few people could afford a computer in the Eastern Bloc, and they could not be exported due to patent infringement and being years behind. The economy collapsed after USSR broke up and nobody wanted to invest to rebuild the industry.
That being said, people in the Eastern Bloc were very resourceful with what they had (mostly clones of Atari’s 8-bit home computers and IBM PCs). A blind person from Czechoslovakia made a speech synthesis sound card for an IBM-compatible PC, which functioned well enough to allow him to be employed as a full-time programmer. At least one of the three exemplars works to this day.
el_bhm@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
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.echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure there is an English language compiler for it now, but I don’t know when that became available.
uis@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
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.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“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?
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
What are they I doubt they’ll be even 10 nanometer
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
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?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
pure data wise
Data-wise, the screen is 32x30 tiles, which is 256x240 pixels, or 280x240 including the border. (The height is set by the modified NTSC standard at 240p60, and the width of 256 was chosen to simplify 8-bit arithmetic, plus 24 pixels for a border.) With square pixels, the aspect ratio would be 16:15, or 7:6 including border. The video timing was chosen so that this fills the entire TV screen, which is 4:3. As a result, the pixels have an aspect ratio of (4:3)/(7:6)=8:7 (varies a little between TVs). However, the NES could only flip sprites and not rotate them 90°, so this could be taken into account when creating the rotated versions.
Another successful system with non-square pixels was the IBM PC, whose CGA and EGA cards had a 320x200 resolution (or multiples thereof in other modes), which resulted in PAR (4:3)/(8:5)=6:5. Square pixels first became available with VGA’s hi-res mode (16 colors at 640x480), adopted by systems such as Windows 3.1 and TempleOS.
space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
It will be named the BlyatStation
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Cyka!
As I said to the other BlyatStation comment. 🤣
Rush B!
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
if it’s normally 3 years just hire 12x as many developers and it’ll be fine.
Mikelius@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, everyone knows 9 women can generate a baby in 1 month.
uis@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Wait, what? He is senile, but not THAT much. Although he was senile enough for war.
To be fair he probably doesn’t even know what game console is.
CluckN@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Russia probably wants high powered chips for military use. Fronting it as an entertainment initiative may entice more investors.
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe. Or if you’re engrossed in videogames, you don’t care your neighbor is drafted.
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This 100% this
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Just give him an NES with Battletoads, file off any print, and tell him you made it.
uis@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Zugyuk@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Is that all it takes? 🤣
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Hey when the KGB is standing in the corner looking serious, you bet those engineers will have the “stats” to prove it’s competitive.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Well it will be competitive. Because all its competition aren’t entering Russia anyway because of sanctions.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Taking console wars to the next level
don@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
lol
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Why?
FleetingTit@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
To show that their Economy isn’t struggling from sanctions and to give the people what they want: entertainment.
There is a lot going wrong in Russia right now and Putler needs a win.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Some kid beat him in Fortnite and now he wants his own console system to ban the kid from (and probably track them down)
uis@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Hah. This comment is based on assumption that Putin knows what game console is.
antidote101@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Probably because Putin just found out the population sucks at flying drones.
MrZee@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
This is new console…Fun Barrel. For 20 liters of kerosene, you can play all night if the coolant doesn’t ignight.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They will basically buy one clone off of AliExpress, stamp a new name and be done with it.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In partnership with SouljaBoy!
TheSpermWhale@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Excitedly awaiting the release of the Z-Box
dlpkl@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’ll be able to know when your draft-dodging ass is home, so it can send some nice FSB gentlemen to come give you a lift.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
maybe irs all spyware with microphones and/or cameras? a loyalty program!
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The funny part is leaders all of the world are going to ask their country to do the same thing too now as none of them realize how ridiculous it is.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 weeks ago
“Eat verification bullet to continue”
Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Plot twist: It will be a PC with 486DX2-compatible CPU.
antidote101@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So the main task would be writing the custom OS, which with enough coders and a coherent plan could theoretically be done.
The hardware will just be a small form factor computer or gaming laptop in a box, with a controller attached.
It will be deconstructed day one, and what hardware they went with will be revealed.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This will do wonders for comedy
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Good for them. 🤷♂️
ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Rutendo 24
Gabu@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Here comes another Atari Jaguar.
kadu@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
reflectedodds@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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 😂
kadu@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I mean, that’s what all Steam Deck competitors really are. They’re windows 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.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It wouldn’t be Windows, it’d probably be a variant of Astra Linux.
The year of Linux may finally be among us.
Woozythebear@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So? That’s literally an Xbox…
kautau@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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
Carighan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Essentially just Playnite then?
MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.com 4 weeks ago
so… repackage a pi?
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
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.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 4 weeks ago
I am also half expecting them to adopt/steal hardware from other companies.
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It’s totally gonna be a bunch of pirated games and a copy of Launchbox/Playnite lol
ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s literally what the original Xbox was
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
There was nothing small about the original Xbox.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Original Xbox had custom OS. It run on something similar to Windows 2000 (NT 5) kernel though.