Russian President Vladimir Putin announces plans for a series of homegrown consoles, following previous sanctions that limited sales of Western ones.
Xbox? No comrade, we have BlyatBox. It play games such as Super Vladio, Legend of Velda, and Dance Dance Crushing Opposition and Revolution and forming a Blood Thirsty Dictatorship
And the Vladstation 5 comes with bootleg Helldivers 2. If you pass the tutorial you get shipped to the Ukraine front.
The graphics on the VS 5 are revolutionary. Wait, I didn’t mean that, please don’t take me to gulag
It’ll probably be a shanzhai Steam Deck clone, made largely if not entirely in Shenzhen, with a version of Linux modified to not run unapproved games (and to allow the FSB to monitor any subversive activities). Also, it’ll probably be hacked within two weeks, disabling the surveillance features and making it run a full complement of warez and emulators.
I wonder if they could get away with selling a PC based console filled with pirated games.
With blackjack. And hookers.
Dendy Deck
Or, these consoles will be made using extremely high tech chips and other parts that can easily double as cockpit displays and flight controllers in missiles.
In Soviet Russia, video game control you!
more competition is always good.