Back when Vladimir Putin launched his aggressive war on Ukraine, even before western government sanctions began rolling out, the video game industry started its own mini warfront on Russia. Compani…
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 😂
That is literally what the first Xbox was. It’s internals was a custom mboard running a Celeron 700 and 3.5" HDD (can’t remember what the graphics was based on, maybe a GeForce MX?) with a customised Win2k OS.
All approx. It’s early and I can’t be bothered confirming those specs are 100% accurate :p
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
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.
Every time I see an original Xbox I’m always amazed because in my memory it was a lot smaller. I used to carry that thing to and from school I have no idea how I managed that.
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.
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Is that all it takes? 🤣
Hey when the KGB is standing in the corner looking serious, you bet those engineers will have the “stats” to prove it’s competitive.
Well it will be competitive. Because all its competition aren’t entering Russia anyway because of sanctions.
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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.
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 😂
So? That’s literally an Xbox…
It’s literally not an Xbox.
That is literally what the first Xbox was. It’s internals was a custom mboard running a Celeron 700 and 3.5" HDD (can’t remember what the graphics was based on, maybe a GeForce MX?) with a customised Win2k OS.
All approx. It’s early and I can’t be bothered confirming those specs are 100% accurate :p
It wouldn’t be Windows, it’d probably be a variant of Astra Linux.
The year of Linux may finally be among us.
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That’s literally what the original Xbox was
They at least did the courtesy of deleting the Windows UI, though.
Essentially just Playnite then?
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
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.
so… repackage a pi?
I am also half expecting them to adopt/steal hardware from other companies.
That’s literally what the original Xbox was
There was nothing small about the original Xbox.
Every time I see an original Xbox I’m always amazed because in my memory it was a lot smaller. I used to carry that thing to and from school I have no idea how I managed that.
All hail The Duke!
Original Xbox had custom OS. It run on something similar to Windows 2000 (NT 5) kernel though.
Was just a skin on win 2k and contained an intel chip.
It was just a PC in a box.
And not even a very optimized one.
It’s totally gonna be a bunch of pirated games and a copy of Launchbox/Playnite lol
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Dendy
“Eat verification bullet to continue”
The Blyatstation
Cyka!
They will basically buy one clone off of AliExpress, stamp a new name and be done with it.
In partnership with SouljaBoy!
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.
Russia probably wants high powered chips for military use. Fronting it as an entertainment initiative may entice more investors.
Maybe. Or if you’re engrossed in videogames, you don’t care your neighbor is drafted.
Or they’re gonna make video games that are suspiciously like piloting drones
This 100% this
This will do wonders for comedy
Will it have The Game?
Gaming is of upmost importance to the health of a nation. Future wars will be done through esports.
The whole point of league of legends
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.
I’m not talking about gameplay, the league of legend in its lore is there to prevent real world war
I played DotA for 14 years and while I agree it’s better than LoL in every single way I still wouldn’t recommend that anyone actually play it.
It’s fun though. It has its age, but still there’s nothing like it.
If only
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.
There was an episode of Star Trek about this.
Future Russian parlement: We will crush, nuke and bury whatever will be left. In Quake.
Why?
Some kid beat him in Fortnite and now he wants his own console system to ban the kid from (and probably track them down)
Hah. This comment is based on assumption that Putin knows what game console is.
It’s what you fly drones from.
I don’t think he knows about them further than “bad stuff mentioned in red folders”.
Probably because Putin just found out the population sucks at flying drones.
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.
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.
maybe irs all spyware with microphones and/or cameras? a loyalty program!
I love how he’s modernizing the punch lines to all the old Soviet jokes.
Should be easy. Just take a AY-3-8500 chip, and the gaming console is basically done!
if it’s normally 3 years just hire 12x as many developers and it’ll be fine.
Yeah, everyone knows 9 women can generate a baby in 1 month.