On December 14, Tesla officially announced that Sonic the Hedgehog is 30 years old this year, and in order to celebrate his birthday, the company is currently working with Sega to bring the original Sonic the Hedgehog game into Tesla Motors' in-car game system.
Tesla said that all Tesla's new and old models can run Sonic the Hedgehog 1, and users only need to connect the gamepad to the USB interface on the car to play. However, it is said that the recently delivered Tesla Model 3 and Model Y have castrated a part of the USB interface, and the impact on the game experience should not be small, musk is not necessary to consider adding back to the user for a better game experience.
Ray learned that the original Sonic the Hedgehog was released in June 1991 and premiered on Sega's Genesis console. Sonic is designed to fight against Nintendo's Super Mario, and its games are mostly based on high-speed movement, parkour, and action. Before Tesla motors, Sonic the Hedgehog was ported to platforms such as iOS and Android. From the release of the original game to today, Sonic the Hedgehog remains one of the most popular game series.
At last week's TGA conference, Sega also announced the news of Sonic's sequel movie and the new game "Sonic: Frontline", which is reported to change the previous fixed parkour gameplay to "open world" adventures.
As we all know, Tesla Motors' car machine has good processing power, especially the high-performance Model series models, with its built-in AMD Ryzen™ APU and RDNA2 unique chip, which is comparable to Sony's latest game console PS5. To show off his super performance, Musk demonstrated a wave of Cyberpunk 2077 on Model S Plaid.
In addition to the upcoming addition of the first generation of "Sonic the Hedgehog", Tesla's car game projects also include "Teacup Head", "Stardew Cereal Language" and just mentioned "Cyberpunk 2077", it seems that Musk has the potential to compete with Sony PlayStation.
Not long ago, Tesla because the latest car firmware allows the co-pilot to play games while driving, causing concerns from the US federal safety regulatory authorities. We all know that in the process of driving, other occupants can not affect the driver, otherwise it will bring great safety risks.
There is no dashboard in front of the steering wheel of Tesla motors, and various information is displayed on the central control screen, if the co-pilot is allowed to play games, then the driver will not be able to see the working condition of the car in time. Xiao Lei believes that even if Tesla Motors is a "mobile game hall", it should also play games when the vehicle is parked.