Tesla To Integrate Steam Online Gaming Service On Its Vehicles, Says Musk

Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla is close to integrating Valve’s online gaming service Steam in its vehicles. Tesla has been actively looking to develop games for its cars and has also built prodigious hardware in the new Model S and Model X which use AMD’s chips and have capabilities similar to the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox One Series X. Valve’s Steam online gaming storefront is the next frontier something which the automaker has been working towards for a while.

“We’re making progress with Steam integration. Demo probably next month,” said the world’s richest man replying to a tweet by an account called Tesla Owners Silicon Valley.

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Tesla has a team of software engineers who are working on triple-A games in its Seattle facility. It also has a similar office in Austin as it views the car as the third screen. Tesla is working on a video game platform called Tesla Arcade and has been working with many game studios.

Musk believes that gaming which is perhaps the most valuable and engaging form of entertainment will be very valuable when cars are fully autonomous. Tesla has been pitching to users that it is at the forefront of autonomous tech even though its autopilot ADAS suit is most level 2 not level 4 or level 5. Tesla plans on providing different subscription packages for this gaming service.

Tesla’s new dojo computer has enabled a new self-driving beta which is an enhancement on autopilot but it is still a ways off from being truly self-driving. On the new Model S and Model X, its AMD RDNA 2 based GPU stack includes AMD Navi 23 graphics processors which provide 10 teraflops of compute which is very similar to what the current generation gaming consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox One Series X have.