Izumi Kawanishi, Sony Honda Mobility COO, said at a CES 2026 press event that you’ll be able to play games you own in the Afeela electric vehicle via PlayStation Remote Play.
He said Sony and Honda have a vision of redefining mobility, enabling interactive experiences and maximizing cabin space for entertainment.
Sony will put a lot of emphasis on vehicle AI, with a lot of tech devoted to ADAS, or advanced driver assistance systems, Kawanishi said.
Sony Honda Mobility has had a strategic partnership with Qualcomm on its Snapdragon for its “digital chassis.” The car will cost $89,000 and up.
Nakul Duggal, executive vice president at Qualcomm, said the partnership is aimed at redefining mobility and creating smarter and safer journeys. The chips will enable agentic AI in every vehicle. It will have adaptive in-vehicle systems that learn driver preferences.
Kawanishi said the screens of Afeela’s cabin will bring movies, music games and more. It will be a richer, more enjoyable time, he said.
Eric Lempe, senior vice president of business and product at Sony Interactive Entertainment, came on stage to represent PlayStation’s stake in the Afeela.
“We want PlayStation to be the best place to play and give players more ways to play,” he said.
Remote Play has been on the agenda for years, and it took off with PlayStation 4. You can stream games from the PS 4 or PS 5 or PlayStation Portable to play games where the fans are. PlayStation Portable now accounts for more than 50% of portable play.
Remote Play is coming to cars for the first time on the Afeela.
“You play the games you already own through streaming,” Lempe said. Astrobot, God of War: Ragnarok and Ghost of Yotei will be playable this way, as will new games like Resident Evil: Requiem and Marathon.
Tomoko Ida, a Japanese music producer who won an Emmy, said she is working on music for the cabin of the Afeela, and she hopes to turn the vehicle into a musical instrument, with soundscapes instead of engine sounds. The aim is to make mobility more enjoyable.
She played sample of the music with koto instruments and more. The Afeela will have cloud APIs to enable applications for in-vehicle applications and entertainment to transform the in-cabin experience.
It will also have blockchain. That’s right, it will have an on-chain mobile service platform, with interactions possible between OEMs, developers and consumers.
J Thongnop, senior director of marketing at Sony U.S., said more than 100,000 visitors saw the Afeela in more than 24,000 in-cabin demonstrations. He said the goal is to deliver a driving experience beyond imagination and bring the tech of the future into the car of today.
There are four Afeela experience centers in California and two will open soon. It will expand to Arizona in 2027.
Yasuhide Mizuna, CEO of Sony Honda Mobility, said, “Our journey has only just begun.” He said the company is gearing up manufacturing at Honda’s factory in Ohio, and production has already begun. Delivery will start late this year for California customers and in Japan it will start in 2027. You can demo drive Afeela 1 in the U.S.
Mizuna also showed off an early prototype of a second model of Afeela for launch in 2028.