Toyota going harder on gaming than Apple was not on my 2026 bingo card. Oof.
I feel like for 15 years or more Apple has been putting their chess pieces on the board just-so for gaming.
Then when you think they’ll do something they just keep shuffling the pieces about and never do anything with it.
Could have gone with a proven Godot ecosystem, then sponsored them to work on speeding up startup times and making it ‘automotive grade.’
But, no…
Why is diversity bad? Shouldn’t we want multiple avenues, as long as competition is fair?
Diversity is good, competition is good, but these are all such huge projects that having TOO many is bad because that’s less funding for any individual project
Personally I would’ve loved if they’d taken on Bevy and increased that project’s funding a lot. It’s an existing engine, but a lot less famous than Godot and currently not as usable yet. One day it may be a worthy competitor to Godot though.
Any development time that is not spent on a new ICE vehicle is time well spent
… but why would there be a need for games for in-car displays?
Toyota Connected North America is Toyota Motor Corporation’s subsidiary founded in collaboration with Microsoft for working on in-vehicle software, AI, and related tech initiatives.
Toyota is interested in a game engine suited for their in-vehicle / digital cockpit experience.
Interesting - surprised they didn’t just want to contribute to Godot to make it work better for them, but its their resources I guess.
Toyota developing a console grade, open source game engine - using Horse Dung & Manure
I guess they chose this particular flavour of Horse Dung & Manure because it is Google-branded, thus likely has wide-spread support and a proven track record.
But hey, JavaScript has both of those, and no one argues that it isn’t shit (well, almost no one…)
you wouldn’t soft mod a car
Are they going to port the old Yaris Xbox Live Arcade game to this new engine?
