Posted 3/29/2024, 4:08:59 PM
Russia Mulls $100M, Decade-Long Effort to Build Own Game Consoles After Losing Access to Western Games
- Russia is considering building its own game consoles and gaming platform after being cut off from Western games
- Creating a whole gaming ecosystem from scratch would be a massive undertaking requiring expertise Russia lacks
- It could take 5-10 years and over $100 million just to create a platform lagging behind foreign ones
- Russia has created its own games before when isolated, like amateur computer games in the Cold War era
- The government has a June 15 deadline to evaluate the feasibility of making a domestic game console