Russian dictator Vladimir Putin recently commanded his country’s tech industry to come up with a local competitor to the Microsoft Xbox Series X/S and Sony Playstation 5 video game consoles for what we imagine to be another channel of regime propaganda and graft, Kotaku reports.
Putin gave the industry a deadline of June for the effort, spearheaded mostly by shitty Facebook knockoff VK, to also come up with its own online ecosystem, something that took literally decades and probably tens of billions for the American and Japanese companies to develop to work reliably.