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Russian President Vladimir Putin announces plans for a series of homegrown consoles, following previous sanctions that limited sales of Western ones.

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[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

With which chips exactly, Vlad? You're scraping processors out of washing machines for your weapons.

[–] Truck_kun 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Russia actually does produce their own CPUs:

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/half-of-russian-made-chips-are-defective-baikal-struggles-to-meet-russias-demand

Edit: Likely Chinese fabs, but point was that they are producing them... just ~half are defective products

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 7 months ago

They're not really high tech though.

[–] locke@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 months ago

With blackjack. And hookers.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 7 months ago

It’ll probably be a shanzhai Steam Deck clone, made largely if not entirely in Shenzhen, with a version of Linux modified to not run unapproved games (and to allow the FSB to monitor any subversive activities). Also, it’ll probably be hacked within two weeks, disabling the surveillance features and making it run a full complement of warez and emulators.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago
[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

more competition is always good.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

In Soviet Russia, video game control you!