But then who on this planet was expecting that.
“Unpolitical” Russians?
TIL that exists.
I wonder how their McRonald’s is doing?
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.
They got that Sespi and that 8Down
I’ve just realized that I can’t remember what those things are named despite buying them a few times.
But, long story short, I suppose some things are limited only by IP.
Have they tried threatening the console with nukes?
I wish them good luck!
Is that guy really crying?
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…
Why would they bother focusing on consoles at all?
They would be way more successful investing in game developers.
How would they sell their games to other countries?
Yeah there are a lot of things you can’t do when you’re half drunk all the time.
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.
So perhaps being drunk is, in some unknown way, a civilization-level advantage
I can get behind that.
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)
The Nintendo Switch can’t match PS5 or XBOX either, yet outsells both.
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)
This has been their schtick since Game and Watch.
Seriously. They legit called their first console Family Computer.
Thankfully Nintendo has fun games. Not going to hold my breath for anything good on the ladabox
The nintendo switch isn’t trying to compete with Microsoft or Sony. They do their own thing on purpose.
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.
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.
talent and creativity
Idk, Russian hackers have plenty of talent and creativity.
“Hacking” can be as easy as running some script you found online to prowl for vulnerable systems. This doesn’t take a lot of creativity. A lot of people/businesses/governments don’t practice good security hygiene (e.g. apply security patches as soon as they’re available) and end up getting popped by skiddies. I’d be more impressed if these Russian “hackers” could consistently repel attacks, but a simple google search suggests that they are struggling to defend their own turf
I only know of one Russian game. Tetris.
Durak is basically a land war in Asia.
