Back in March, Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the government to create Russian stationary and portable game consoles, along with operating systems and cloud-based game delivery...
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
I only know of one Russian game. Tetris.
Durak is basically a land war in Asia.