New Teslas might lose Steam
New Teslas might lose Steam
Why is a car capable of playing games in the first place. I understand it’s not going to allow people to play while they drive but still. That just seems like an odd/bad idea.
It's just a computer... Why not? As long as it cannot be running while the car is driving I don't particularly see an issue.
Would be great if I could fire up a game while waiting in cell parking at the airport for my family that comes into town for example. Gotta remember that this isn't new. We had minivans with built in n64s and shit before.
As long as it cannot be running while the car is driving
This is Tesla... So only as long as the state enforces it...
That’s a fair point. I honestly had not thought about the “waiting for” aspect.
Why a bad idea? Why an odd idea? It's a powerful computer with a decent size monitor in a place where sometimes people have to sit and wait. What am I missing because seems like a logical / good idea to me?
Electric cars have a very legit use case for this… extended charge times. The video games and streaming apps are so you can kill time.
Telsa’s have pretty fast charge times, but even those are slower than a gasoline fill up. Moreover, if you get cursed with charging at a non-Telsa station, you could be there for quite a bit.
A lot of people camp in them too.
People are so used to megacorporations controlling what specific software they can run on their general-purpose computers that they are now... in favor of it? Every day it seems more and more the case that Apple's anti-sideloading propaganda is successful.
As someone without an electric car, i always assumed it was for something to do while charging.
The cars already have decent GPUs to process the camera data for driving assistance features, so someone at the company probably just thought it would be neat to do something with that computing power when it's not being used for driving.
I never wait around while the car is charging (generally only charge at home), but this has been useful for waiting to board a ferry, actually being in the car on a ferry, and waiting for road closures to clear.
I also do have a steam deck, and this is basically the same thing but with a bigger screen.
So you can play a racing game in your car, while letting the autopilot kill you.
And so that the manufacturer can sell you a new car, so that you can play newer games.
Nothing wrong with a little Cuphead while I'm speeding intoxicated through a school zone at 2:35 PM.
Edit: looks at her downvotes
Did... Did no one understand this was sarcasm?
Geewiz I bought my my car to play Steam game!! /s
Perhaps not exclusively so, but it could've convinced some to choose a Tesla over other EV's.
I guess Musk hadn't yet fired enough people after closing their entire charging station division.
"lose steam"
In which way?
(For those that didn't get it, the joke is a double entendre.)
I found an article about it that has some details, you might find it interesting.
They're probably not interested in reading the article, but in case they care to read the title of the article you shared: New Teslas might lose Steam
It's literally the fist sentence of the article:
Tesla might be dropping Steam support
Oh no... anyway.
Whether my car can play games has no bearing on whether I'd buy that car. So, this is a nothingburger.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tesla’s message alerts the customer that the company is “updating the gaming computer” in the Model X and says it’s “no longer capable of playing Steam games.” The message ends with a button for the customer to confirm they will proceed with the delivery.
And we’re not seeing any signs that the automaker plans to remove Steam from current owners’ vehicles through a software update.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had hyped Steam as a selling point, advertising the new GPU as powerful with the ability to play top-tier games like Cyberpunk 2077.
Initial 2021 models were not installed with sufficient RAM to support the advertised games, so Steam was not included.
There’s speculation that Tesla might be backtracking on powerful gaming hardware in new Model S and X vehicles.
Musk has been busy squeezing the company through hot-headed layoffs in an effort to make the company “absolutely hard core.” Tesla scaled back on what a new low-cost vehicle will look like and is going all in on building a robotaxi, which means games like The Witcher are no longer a priority.
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