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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    8 months ago

    There’s a 99% chance it’ll be one of those fake emulation consoles with 5000 pirated roms loaded into it

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      8 months ago

      Wouldn’t be too out of pocket for Putin to advocate pirating all games not developed in Russia

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        8 months ago

        Good then maybe they’d stop with all the gray market shit that they’re into. Stolen keys are worse for developers than piracy, and Russia is notorious for it (along with other countries).

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      8 months ago

      Those are fun, though. You get a single console that emulates a lot of systems for a good price. Some have cute retro styles!

      I got the Miyoo Mini Plus that runs on Linux. It emulates many old consoles like GB and GBA, and can even run some DS, N64, and PS1 games, which are a great addition. Of course you need to tweak it a little with a good OS (not the Chinese one) and a good SD card with a library of games from the buccaneer communities. Edit: It’s not hard at all.

      The Steam Deck is amazing, so I don’t think they can rival it, but if they make a better Odin 2 cheaper than the Steam Deck, I’d be tempted, lol.

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      8 months 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

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        8 months ago

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

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          8 months ago

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

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            8 months 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.

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            8 months ago

            China doesn’t have the capacity to make high performance computer chips.

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              8 months ago

              Deck is like 6nm. China can make 7nm. It is not like Deck is a powerhouse anyway.

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          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.

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    8 months 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

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    8 months ago

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

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    8 months ago

    i’ve seen a few videos of ukranians using decks to control drones. maybe he thinks there will be military applications on the russian side too

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      The reason you can control drones is that it’s basically a full-on OS that can send to arbitrary system commands. If Russia wants it 100% home grown they’re going to have to develop their own architecture. What I suspect is it won’t actually be that home grown and will mostly be Linux based, but Putin doesn’t know the first thing about computer systems so it’ll be fun to watch someone have to tell him that.

      It’s the same with North Korea, they claim to have their own PC OS but it’s just Windows XP with a custom skin.