Game console delayed by vehicle functions? Elon Musk predicts that the Steam service will work on Tesla models as soon as August - mashdigi

In February of this year, it was revealed that the Steam game service platform would be included in Tesla models. Elon Musk revealed in an earlier Twitter response that the relevant progress will be shown to the public as soon as August this year.

Before that, Tesla has equipped its car models with computer computing power, allowing car owners to play games through the large-size screen in the center console when the car is parked and stationary.More than 20 games including Cuphead and Fallout: Shelterand can even be used to play streaming video content.

In February of this year, he mentioned that the Steam service will be brought to Tesla models. Elon Musk said that he expected to show the relevant progress in August this year, and also expected to demonstrate through the 3A-level games currently released in the market.

Since the new Model S and Model X are equipped with new car computers, the computing power reaches 10 Teraflops, which is almost the same as the computing performance of the current game consoles on the market.AMD Navi 23 Display Architecture GPUwhich can correspond to smoother display operations, and even correspond to real-time light and shadow tracing display effects, and can also correspond to various audio and video content operations, or provide computer vision computing performance.

In a related statement, Elon Musk also revealed that the new computer will be equipped with a larger storage capacity at the same time, so it is expected that it will allow car owners to download and install games that require more storage space.

As for providing the experience of playing 3A-level game works on electric vehicles, Tesla emphasizes that the purpose is not to be sensational, but to plan to allow car owners to have more entertainment options in the car when the vehicle is in a safe enough autonomous driving situation. On the other hand, it is obviously also to emphasize the automatic driving function that will be launched next, which will correspond to a more adequate and safe operation performance.