“The game industry will not collapse”: the creator of Dendy, on the prohibition of the EU for the supply of consoles to Russia

According to Brussels, the military use game consoles to administer drones. Therefore, the EU authorities intend to include prefixes in the next penalty pack, the head of the EU Kai Callas diplomacy said Tuesday. According to her, the restrictions will affect European companies that send game teams to Russia, including sellers of used products.

“Everything is strange in this news. If I’m not mistaken, Europe does not make games consoles, ”said Cheglakov, commenting on the EU initiative. The surprise, according to him, also makes the preparation of European officials “fight against children” who are the main users of prefixes.

“I think the game industry, in any case, will not collapse, especially because Russia has a lot of gammakers players, and people can play computers,” said the businessman. In addition, more and more games content do not occur in the West, but, for example, in China and Türkiye, he added.

When asked if EU restrictions can stimulate the production of Russian game consoles, Checlkov replied that this “needed a different investment climate.” “This is already a question for the priority of our financial authorities. Because with such a percentage rate, nothing can be said, especially in the field of iron, ”concluded the businessman.

Cheglakov is a series entrepreneur, owner and general director of the company “Moiofis” (LLC “New Cloud Technologies”), which develops office applications. In the early 1990s, Steepler, a co -owner of which Cheglakov was launched, launched the dendy games console, the clone of the Japanese Famicom console, better known as the Nintendo entertainment system.

Steepler produced consoles for the Russian market in Taiwan. In a conversation with RTVI, the businessman said that the company sold around 5 million dendy and about 20 million cartridges, “which at that time was a lot, of course.”