Back in February of this year, the head of Tesla, Elon Musk, said on his social networks that the developers were working on integrating the Steam platform into the electric cars of the American brand, but since then there has been no news on this issue. And today, December 14, Tesla officially announced that the new Model S and X cars will receive full Steam integration as part of the upcoming firmware update, which will open the door to the world of thousands of video games. In honor of this, the manufacturer even released a commercial in which he demonstrated the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 on the display of the multimedia system of an electric car.
True, it is worth immediately clarifying that by “new” cars the company does not mean all electric cars released relatively recently, but Plaid versions, the deliveries of which began last year. The fact is that the infotainment systems of both cars are based on AMD RDNA 2 GPUs and AMD Ryzen processors – a similar system-on-a-chip is used by the PlayStation 5, so the performance of the car and the console is about the same. Accordingly, gamers will be able to comfortably run thousands of modern video games with fairly high-quality graphics and a smooth picture.
True, because of its desire to turn the car into a gaming computer on wheels, Tesla has already got into serious trouble. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was not very happy that the driver would be distracted from the road by video games, but after a short scandal it turned out that you can only play if the car is not in motion. And although it is not entirely clear why the vehicle needs this function, because if you want to kill time in a traffic jam, you can also use your smartphone, the manufacturer places special emphasis on this. Perhaps due to the fact that competitors can not afford Steam.
Source: Trash Box
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