Honda and Sony's joint cars could have PlayStation 5 baked in

Sony and Honda have announced they're going to build electric vehicles together and introduce them by 2025. The cars' "killer app" would be Sony's vast library of entertainment options, including its PlayStation video game console. As we reported in January, the PlayStation would be built into the car so a separate console wasn't necessary. Now reports are saying the cars will play the most advanced games in Sony's portfolio, from the PlayStation 5.

According to Eurogamer, the president of the Sony-Honda joint venture, Izumi Kawanishi, told the Financial Times that it's "technologically possible" to fuse PS5 capabilites into the car. "Sony has content, services and entertainment technologies that move people. We are adapting these assets to mobility, and this is our strength against Tesla," Kawanishi said.

For its part, last year Tesla announced that Model S and Model Y cars would be shipping with advanced AMD graphics chips like the ones used in PlayStation 5 consoles. In a 2021 demo, Elon Musk even boasted that his cars offered PlayStation 5-level performance. He made note of the fact that the hardware could run cutting edge, graphics-intensive games like Cyberpunk 2077. However, games of that level have yet to be integrated into Tesla cars.