Putin hopes that Russia will develop a homegrown video game console.
Putin has demanded the creation of video game devices that are both dependable and transportable. Local media, however, indicates that it might take up to ten years for this idea to come to pass.
The nation that created Tetris, Russia, is thinking of starting a video game company of its own, which would entail creating consoles.
Local media sources state that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his officials instructions to take this into consideration this week at a socioeconomic meeting. To offer games to Russian consumers, the government’s mandate specifically asks that the development of “both stable and portable game consoles” be taken into consideration, in addition to operating systems and cloud services.
Following the attacks on Ukraine, all of the major video game companies, including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, stopped official sales to Russia. At that point, Putin issued this command. Local Russian stores are still able to import foreign video game systems in spite of the prohibition. However, it appears that the Kremlin views the Western economic sanctions as a chance to launch its own video game sector.
Putin has given the administration till June 15th to review the comprehensive plan. This initiative will be supervised by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. It’s obvious that this assignment won’t be simple, though. Putin has probably given the Russian IT giant VK the task of carrying out this plan, according to a story in the Russian newspaper Kommersant. The newspaper continues: “Market participants say that there is no capacity to produce their own PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and it will take up to ten years to develop such a system from scratch.”
In actuality, creating a console needs a healthy ecosystem for software developers in addition to an adequate supply of cutting-edge processors, shipments of which the United States is obstructing. However, Kommersant says that a more sensible course of action for Russia would be to import video game hardware from China, akin to Valve’s Steam Deck.
