A pint of wisdom walker丨 turn the car into a game hall, Tesla & ideal who is the future?

"Excess performance" is a common phenomenon in mobile phone hardware, and it also faces the same problem with the popularity of intelligent car machines. At present, mainstream models, whether fuel vehicles or new energy, generally use Qualcomm 820A chips, which has greatly improved in performance compared with the past. However, compared with the rapid iterative upgrading of car and machine chips, the entertainment experience of car machines is still a market that needs to be developed urgently. At present, the car machine equipped with Qualcomm 820A chip can smoothly run audio, short video apps, and service software related to travel, but it is still a bit "wasteful" for its performance. How to develop the car machine system from functionality to entertainment, and further tap the chip performance? Become a topic worth paying attention to.

In terms of maximizing the performance potential of the car machine, Tesla is a pioneer, by improving the performance of the car chip, you can play the game with higher requirements for the performance of the chip, currently equipped with the AMD chip in the Model3 and Y series, its performance is close to the Sony PS5 game console.

On April 6, Ideal announced that its L9 model can play Swtich game consoles on the screen. It can be regarded as another scheme for the entertainment of the car machine system. Compared with upgrading the performance of Tesla's car and machine chips to the game level, Yipinjun believes that the ideal L9 provides a connection to gaming equipment, which is more intelligent and pragmatic. One is to improve the performance of the internal chip, and the other is to borrow flowers to connect the game equipment, which way are you more inclined to the entertainment of the car machine system?

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Sophisticated gameplay: Tesla creates a native "game console"

For now, Tesla's biggest advantage in improving the performance of built-in chips is to save the budget of re-purchasing game equipment, and play as you go, which belongs to a closed-loop ecology. After leaving the mobile phone, the owner can completely use Tesla's car machine as a mobile phone, and the three major application plates of audio and video App, travel service App and game App are basically the common scenes of mobile phones. Improve the performance of the internal chip, maximize the function of the mobile phone to restore to the car machine system, high integration is the advantage of Tesla car machine system.

Of course, for such a "small thing" as playing games in the car, Tesla has always maintained a professional and positive attitude. As early as 2019, Tesla launched an in-car gaming platform called Tesla Arcade, which is also the world's first in-car gaming platform. It has games like 2048, Asteroids, Centipede, Super Breakout, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Millipede, Tempest, and Gravitar. It also includes puzzle games such as chess, backgammon and solitaire. Some people also jokingly call Tesla a car version of the "Steam" game platform, which can pull out the world-renowned game platform to ridicule Tesla, which shows that its game experience and performance have been recognized by car owners.

The AMD Ryzen chip currently on tesla model3

Of course, in terms of chips, Tesla is also the ceiling in the car machine! Tesla relevant person in charge said: "Tesla Arcade game platform up to 10 trillion floating-point processing power, even compared with the latest game console PS5", while equipped with wireless gamepads, users can sit in any seat in the car to play games. Tesla's most advanced chip is the AMD Navi 23 GPU.

Of course, hardware is only the foundation, and among the several games Tesla provides, the "Beach Buggy Racing 2" racing game produced by Vector Unit is the experience ceiling. You don't need to buy the Logitech G27 game steering wheel yourself, you just need to play through Tesla's real steering wheel and brake pedals. The smoothness and experience of the whole game is unprecedented.

In terms of game development strategy, Tesla aims to deeply integrate with world-renowned game manufacturers and achieve closed-loop development. According to reports, Tesla already has a software team in Charge of the video game business in Seattle, and they recently planned to build another one in Austin. In addition, Sega also announced a deep integration with Tesla in terms of gaming, bringing the Sonic the Hedgehog 1 to Tesla's existing and new models of in-car game consoles.

In the view of Yipinjun, Tesla is a strategic integration of the development of gameplay in the car, not a gimmick played by ordinary car companies. Because after the optional advanced automatic driving function, the transformation of driving relationships is followed. After the optional fully autonomous driving function worth more than 60,000 yuan, the identity of the driver also changes, from the driver to the driver of the situation, and how to pass the time during this period? Obviously there's nothing better than playing a game. Tesla's development of the car-machine entertainment system is strategic, it provides a new platform for the game ecosystem, from PC to mobile phone, from mobile phone to car machine.

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Borrow flowers to dedicate Buddha: The ideal L9 can be connected to gaming equipment

It can be said that the formation of a complete game ecology is not something that any car company can easily do, in other words, there is no need to make all car machines become game machines. In fact, installing the game into the car machine system, BYD did this as early as 2014! They have developed a smart networked car machine system called Car Pad, based on the Android system, it can download a variety of games on its own, but the overall playing experience is not satisfactory, are some simple games, more like the Android games in the mobile phone panning over. It seems that it is obviously not feasible to roughly implant Android mobile phone platform games into the car machine, not only is the game resolution not matched, the entire game experience is simply not as good as holding the phone.

The ideal L9 is smarter, choosing what games to play to the player. You can connect to the Switch console through the interface and play through the high-definition screen in the car. It can be said that in the game category, the Switch game console is far beyond the Tesla car machine game platform. The biggest advantage of the ideal L9 game plan is that the idle game equipment has greater utilization when traveling, but the premise is that you must have a Switch.

The ideal L9 gaming solution, somewhat similar to a portable screen-connected gaming device, except that it was moved into the car

Some netizens may say that the ideal L9 approach is not to borrow flowers to offer Buddha, indeed from a technical point of view, there are indeed some "pediatrics", but Yipinjun believes that this is an efficient method. The ideal L9 car has three 3K HD resolution OLED screens, which are completely comparable to the TV at home in terms of screen quality, and the immersive feeling brought by the sound system of 21 speakers is also unprecedented.