Three side remarks about China, which can be a peculiar example to compare to for Russia, maybe even any other country:
They actually banned consoles for a quite significant 15 years (2000–2015), which strongly tilted their market towards PC.
Their companies actively make PC-type gaming handhelds, and many of them are even well-established in the business ahead the current “Steam Deck” wave/bandwagon: GPD (once called GamePad Digital, first release in 2016), OneXPlayer (2020), Ayaneo (2021).
Chinese gaming companies are quite at the whim of the censorship, and occasional “crackdowns” out of the blue, and many have therefore reoriented themselves for an international audience to de-risk their business.
Three side remarks about China, which can be a peculiar example to compare to for Russia, maybe even any other country: