Russia to develop its own "Steam," Consoles, and O.S.

[Morkonan]

https://www.techspot.com/news/102440-putin-orders-creation-russian-game-consoles-cloud-delivery.html

Vladimir Putin orders creation of Russian game consoles, Steam-like cloud delivery, and OS

In brief: With so many sanctions placed against the country over its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia wants to develop more home-grown technologies. Now, President Vladimir Putin has called on the government to create Russian stationary and portable game consoles, along with operating systems and cloud-based game delivery systems for the machines.

Putin made the order following a meeting on the socio-economic development of Kaliningrad. The deadline for the government to come up with the plans is June 15, 2024. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has been appointed responsible for overseeing the task....

So, Putin is going full "Epic" on Valve?

Will he get a "u mad bro" email from Valve?


It's conceivable that what we could see happen is that Russia just develops its own "Great Firewall" like China's in an attempt to ban outside media including game markets like Valve. It appears that Putin also wants to examine the games, themselves, for what he may consider to be "propaganda."

For any Russians that may still be friendly with fellow gamers in The West, that could be very disconcerting.

And, what happens when Russia's own "OS" is developed, perhaps even hardware mandated?


Creating an isolationist market isn't the answer. If this moves forward, isolating Russians on Russian hardware, in a Russian intranet, using computers running Russian OSs is just cramming a lot of potential into a very small fishbowl of possibilities. It's ridiculous and won't move Russia forward in technological progress in any sense at all.

It'll be interesting to see if this program is ever truly realized and what the reactions of literally "everyone else" are going to be.

[DataLine]

Yeah I call it based

[Blunt Raps]

Początkowo opublikowane przez eula fridge:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Blunt Raps:

I admit it.

Ive tortured and murdered thousands of npc's. Possibly millions!

you are a terrible person. Feel shame

Only sputnik AI can judge me!

(Sputnik AI, now available on the Sputnik Games Launcher, available only on the Sputnik OS)

[Hobbit XIII]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Blunt Raps:

Początkowo opublikowane przez eula fridge:

you are a terrible person. Feel shame

Only sputnik AI can judge me!

(Sputnik AI, now available on the Sputnik Games Launcher, available only on the Sputnik OS)

Sputnik, the wonderful Russian Vaccine that turned out it had been stolen from England.

[Blunt Raps]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Hobbit XIII:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Blunt Raps:

Only sputnik AI can judge me!

(Sputnik AI, now available on the Sputnik Games Launcher, available only on the Sputnik OS)

Sputnik, the wonderful Russian Vaccine that turned out it had been stolen from England.

Thats hilarious lol.

Everything government funded over there is called sputnik for some reason lol

[Birds]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Blunt Raps:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Hobbit XIII:

Sputnik, the wonderful Russian Vaccine that turned out it had been stolen from England.

Thats hilarious lol.

Everything government funded over there is called sputnik for some reason lol

3 funding propals for ron, only 1 has his dad's name on it.

next time 3 proposals, all 3 have nick on it. but all are a reference to sputnik, not nick, obviously.

only his best friend kingbot can tell him which propsal he should accept.

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

I do wish for good things come out of it, if it does happen.

The thing is that millions of young, smart, well connected Russians fled the country in order to not be drafted in Putin's stupid war.

They lost most of their qualified, hip youth.

Unless their platform is filled with Chinese games or something, it is flunking hard.

[Eli]

We're locking this thread as it has devolved into non-productive argument. Thanks for your understanding.