But then who on this planet was expecting that.
“Unpolitical” Russians?
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.
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…
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.
Thankfully Nintendo has fun games. Not going to hold my breath for anything good on the ladabox
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.
The nintendo switch isn’t trying to compete with Microsoft or Sony. They do their own thing on purpose.
