Steam will be Integrated into Tesla Vehicles
Steam will be Integrated into Tesla Vehicles
Gaming in the back seat on Valve's Steam.
Steam is by far one of the best platforms for gamers. Now with Steam Deck and a Tesla integration it could be even easier.
I had no idea about the Tesla connection until recently.
Tesla’s apparently looking to expand its collection of in-car games... by adding Steam. In a reply to a tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company’s “making progress with Steam integration” and that we can expect a demo “probably next month.”
I honestly don’t care about Netflix in a car, but Steam makes my head turn.
Elon Musk says that Tesla is getting closer to integrating Valve’s Steam, which would take its in-car gaming platform to a whole new level.
We still don’t know if the integration will go so far as to allow users to make purchases on Steam while sitting in their cars, or if there will be any games Teslas can’t support.
While Valve isn’t a public company, I would invest in its stock if it were. Steam and the SteamDeck are incredible digital products in the fastly growing gaming sector.
I don’t see myself using Microsoft’s Game pass, I’m a PC gamer not a console gamer. The only exception might be Starfield in 2023, if I’m forced to do so.
Tesla vehicles are high-end and expensive items, and come packed with gadgets and gizmos both trivial and non-trivial (you can make your car do a 'dance', for example). One of the features is the integration of certain videogames on the car's internal screens, which was shown off by an account dedicated to, well, showing off Teslas(opens in new tab).
Valve is as close to a decentralized gaming virm that’s extremely innovative as there is. While today half of China EV exports are Teslas, that won’t last. Tesla will be in tough vs. established car firms and the new breed of EV startups in China and maybe even one day the likes of Rivian, Lucid and Apple, though as things are going today I wouldn’t bet on it.
At a time when Microsoft could one day acquire Netflix, and car software is changing in the 2020s, it’s a bit exciting to witness the real innovation. MSFT 0.00%↑ TSLA 0.00%↑ NFLX 0.00%↑
So will Tesla itself be getting into gaming? Could even Tesla acquire Netflix instead? It really is food for thought.
Tesla is going into the video game business
As we previously reported, Tesla has a team of software engineers working on video games in Seattle, and they recently started building a similar team in Austin. The automaker has been building a video game platform called Tesla Arcade (Electrek) inside its vehicles, and it has been working with video game studios to port games to it.
Tesla will be in tough to compete with Apple car software, even if Project Titan doesn’t end up going anywhere. AppleCar tech could be another cash cow for Apple, and it’s really evolving now.
New Tesla gaming computer
With the unveiling of the new Model S and Model X, Tesla has announced a new gaming computer inside the vehicles:
Up to 10 teraflops of processing power enables in-car gaming on-par with today’s newest consoles via Tesla Arcade. Wireless controller compatibility allows gaming from any seat.
Tesla getting into gaming is good PR for the gaming industry which is growing very fast in the 2020s already. Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are taking the future of gaming very seriously now and want their own walled gardens within it.
Netflix needs to improve in gaming just to survive a few more years on its own.
Car software could be a way for brands to differentiate themselves in a new more ambient computing ecosystem of software alive everywhere.
As people spend less time actually driving with Robo-taxis what will they want to do on their trips? Gaming will be one of those options.
If Elon Musk is behind it, it will be good for Valve.
Musk promises don’t mean much though historically speaking. Musk still hasn’t followed through on promises to bring Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher to newer Model S and X vehicles, which come outfitted with an AMD Ryzen processor and a discrete AMD RDNA 2 GPU. But a potential Steam integration could be an indication that Tesla’s inching closer to its goal, according to Verge.
Tesla came under fire last year after flip-flopping on its policies, first allowing drivers to play games only while in park, and then letting drivers play games when the vehicle is in motion by bypassing a safety confirmation. It’s very weird, but the future of gaming is gaming everywhere, whether you like it or not.