Vladimir Putin has approved a plan to create Russia’s own gaming consoles and a Steam-like OS, to let users play games from a cloud system.
This plan is supposed to promote the socio-economic development of Kaliningrad, a distant Russian region in Europe. While it’s an exciting development, it seems infeasible to make gaming consoles without the hardware of AMD, Intel or Nvidia, as they’re barred from serving Russia.
Russian Alternatives to Cloud Gaming
Russian President Vladimir Putin has just signed a decree to make native gaming consoles, to rival the Western OEMs. Also, the decree contained making a Steam-like OS to let users run games from a cloud platform.
This gaming push is one of the nine instructions aimed at promoting the socio-economic development in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave located between Lithuania and Poland. The region is a Special Economic Zone with tax breaks for manufacturers, and has been developing steadily recently.
Singing this instruction on Monday, Putin assigned Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to formulate the plan with the following objective;
“Consider the issue of organizing the production of stationary and portable game consoles and game consoles, as well as the creation of an operating system and a cloud system for delivering games and programs to users.”
Making a gaming console without the hardware from AMD, NVIDIA, or Intel is hard, and Russia doesn’t have a reliable alternative to them. So it’s interesting to see how the Kremlin will work out.
Well, gaming consoles were never a popular means of playing video games in Russia, even before the ongoing war began. But Russians are a big fan of PC games, especially shooters and MMOs. Thus, creating an alternative to Steam and SteamOS may spur new interest in the local gaming community.
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