Tweet
Elon Musk has revealed on Twitter that there are plans being developed to expand the gaming capabilities of the Tesla infotainment system, including the ability to add support for Steam.
Musk confirmed in his Tweet that his team are also currently working on both specific title support after expressing on a post from CDProjekt Redās official Cyberpunk 2077 account that it was a āgreat gameā which prompted another user to asky when the Sci-Fi RPG would be arriving on either the Tesla Model S or Model X.
Considering that Steam has a 50,000 game library, Musk has claimed that this would be āobviously where we should be long-termā. The updated infotainment system for Tesla vehicles features a 17-inch display and contains AMD Navi 23 graphics. Tesla has kept the details of this AMD GPU a closely guarded secret, but itās currently rumored that it features around 28 Compute Units clocked up to 2.8 GHz.
Weāre working through the general case of making Steam games work on a Tesla vs specific titles. Former is obviously where we should be long-term.February 22, 2022
See more
If true, this would suggest that the Tesla infotainment system is capable of providing up to 10 teraflops of computing power ā which isnāt far off the 10.28 teraflops boasted by Sonyās PS5. Itās little wonder then that Musk has previously teased other games would be playable on the EV from the CDProjekt Red library ā namely The Witcher 3.
Itās likely that Tesla can piggyback off the hard work already completed by Valve to support as much of the full Steam library as possible on its upcoming Steam Deck console, which is based on the same AMD RDNA2 architecture. Large games like God of War, which was recently released for the PC platform, are able to run astonishingly well on the Valve handheld, which sets some lofty expectations for the Tesla infotainment system.
No date has been set for any of these developments, and thatās if they even make it pastā¦. well, development. Updates are expected to Tesla Arcade for the Model X and Model S, but again, no arrival date has been set so itās likely we wonāt see any of these features implemented until around 2023.
[HEADING=1]Opinion: Am I a car, or am I a console? [/HEADING]
Maybe Iām getting old and boring, but my first reaction to reading Muskās tweet was āā¦why?ā.
PC gaming on a handheld has a lot more appeal given you could take the Steam Deck anywhere, but porting the entire Steam library to a car feels a tad perplexing. The wise words of Dr Ian Malcom ring true -theyāve spent so much time thinking whether they could, they didnāt stop to think if they should.
Give me the option of playing Cyberpunk 2077 on a console (or PC), a handheld orā¦well, a car and the first will always win. It may have its uses if youāre stuck waiting in your vehicle while parked, but this all feels like a wasted effort if you wonāt find yourself in that scenario very often.
That said, I donāt own a Tesla. Perhaps this is a feature thatās in especially high demand from folks who actually own and drive the EVs. If this is an easy implementation then itās a no-brainer to add Steam to the Tesla range, even if only for marketing material ā a car with the gaming capabilities of a current-gen console is obviously going to get some attention, though Iād be interested to know if it will be disabled automatically when the vehicle is in motion.
If developing Steam support isnāt going to be a simple task though, Tesla may find that time is better spent fixing the issues blighting its self-driving system rather than trying to attract new customers with the promise of a 50k game library.
[ul]
[li]Check if Steam Deck can play your favorite games with this handy tool[/li][/ul]
Via VideoCardz
Continue readingā¦
Musk confirmed in his Tweet that his team are also currently working on both specific title support after expressing on a post from CDProjekt Redās official Cyberpunk 2077 account that it was a āgreat gameā which prompted another user to asky when the Sci-Fi RPG would be arriving on either the Tesla Model S or Model X.
Considering that Steam has a 50,000 game library, Musk has claimed that this would be āobviously where we should be long-termā. The updated infotainment system for Tesla vehicles features a 17-inch display and contains AMD Navi 23 graphics. Tesla has kept the details of this AMD GPU a closely guarded secret, but itās currently rumored that it features around 28 Compute Units clocked up to 2.8 GHz.
Weāre working through the general case of making Steam games work on a Tesla vs specific titles. Former is obviously where we should be long-term.February 22, 2022
See more
If true, this would suggest that the Tesla infotainment system is capable of providing up to 10 teraflops of computing power ā which isnāt far off the 10.28 teraflops boasted by Sonyās PS5. Itās little wonder then that Musk has previously teased other games would be playable on the EV from the CDProjekt Red library ā namely The Witcher 3.
Itās likely that Tesla can piggyback off the hard work already completed by Valve to support as much of the full Steam library as possible on its upcoming Steam Deck console, which is based on the same AMD RDNA2 architecture. Large games like God of War, which was recently released for the PC platform, are able to run astonishingly well on the Valve handheld, which sets some lofty expectations for the Tesla infotainment system.
No date has been set for any of these developments, and thatās if they even make it pastā¦. well, development. Updates are expected to Tesla Arcade for the Model X and Model S, but again, no arrival date has been set so itās likely we wonāt see any of these features implemented until around 2023.
[HEADING=1]Opinion: Am I a car, or am I a console? [/HEADING]
Maybe Iām getting old and boring, but my first reaction to reading Muskās tweet was āā¦why?ā.
PC gaming on a handheld has a lot more appeal given you could take the Steam Deck anywhere, but porting the entire Steam library to a car feels a tad perplexing. The wise words of Dr Ian Malcom ring true -theyāve spent so much time thinking whether they could, they didnāt stop to think if they should.
Give me the option of playing Cyberpunk 2077 on a console (or PC), a handheld orā¦well, a car and the first will always win. It may have its uses if youāre stuck waiting in your vehicle while parked, but this all feels like a wasted effort if you wonāt find yourself in that scenario very often.
That said, I donāt own a Tesla. Perhaps this is a feature thatās in especially high demand from folks who actually own and drive the EVs. If this is an easy implementation then itās a no-brainer to add Steam to the Tesla range, even if only for marketing material ā a car with the gaming capabilities of a current-gen console is obviously going to get some attention, though Iād be interested to know if it will be disabled automatically when the vehicle is in motion.
If developing Steam support isnāt going to be a simple task though, Tesla may find that time is better spent fixing the issues blighting its self-driving system rather than trying to attract new customers with the promise of a 50k game library.
[ul]
[li]Check if Steam Deck can play your favorite games with this handy tool[/li][/ul]
Via VideoCardz
Continue readingā¦