Thursday, February 24th 2022
Elon Musk Teases Steam Game Support for Tesla Infotainment System
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has recently stated that Tesla is currently working on adding support for Steam games to the Linux-powered infotainment system found in Tesla cars. The latest hardware version of the Tesla infotainment system features a quad-core AMD Zen+ CPU paired with an Radeon Navi 23 GPU similar to that of the Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and Steam Deck. The GPU includes 28 Compute Units running at 2.8 GHz to drive the 17-inch 2200x1300 center screen for approximately 10 TFLOPS of performance. Tesla has previously worked to bring individual games to the infotainment system such as Beach Buggy Racing 2, The Battle of Polytopia, Cuphead, Stardew Valley, and Fallout Shelter in addition to the Atari 2600 emulator. The timeline for any such implementation is likely to be in the medium to long term.
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@elonmusk
Elon MuskWe're 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.
44 Comments on Elon Musk Teases Steam Game Support for Tesla Infotainment System
bumper cars anyone? :D
www.techpowerup.com/277829/elon-musk-teases-updated-tesla-model-s-design-that-can-play-cyberpunk-and-witcher-3?cp=2
videocardz.com/newz/tesla-car-computer-features-zen-ryzen-embedded-apu-and-discrete-navi-23-gpu
Welcome to the future. Techsavvy men also buy millions of dollars in NFTs thinking they are oil barrons. resources are not unlimited, budgets are not unlimited. Money spent on coming up with infotainment features is money not being spent on improving batteries, fixing engineering or building mistakes, or developing those models that are years late to the market.
I can see this taking off ,they have a captive audience for like 30 minutes while charging.
Not for me though I am wayyyy to skint for a Tesla plus an r7 etrons just better.
I can imagine it now; the whole system crashes and needs to be restarted in transit because gaming caused a BSOD / overheat on the system or something. :laugh:
It makes as much sense as DVD players and similar accessories in minivans for example.
edition.cnn.com/2022/02/03/business/tesla-recall-seat-belt-reminder-alert/index.html
On the other hand, traditional carmakers have neither the finances nor the expertise to design their own hardware and control systems (even if we were to disregard their contractual obligations), leaving them at the mercy of their suppliers - which are themselves massive corporations tied into immensely complex systems of interdependency leading to inherently conservative approaches to hardware design.
Tesla just came in at the right time and right geographic location with the right mountain of cash to not need to engage with this, which has given them a significant competitive advantage.
If anyone is interested check out Sandy Munro youtube channel where he does analysis and reverse engineering of Tesla and many other vehicles, the comparisons between like Model Y Mach 3 id4are pretty astonishing and revealing.
Anyway, as someone who owns a Tesla (a fully functioning one, that hasnt needed panels aligned and stuff), this is a cool idea. The options you could have while your vehicle is charging, or maybe your hanging out in your car having lunch, etc, is really cool. I look forward to this, if it even happens.