Car stuff (public number: chedongxi)
Author | The Way
Edited | Mumi
Car east February 23 news, recently Tesla CEO Musk posted that the future will be steam games installed on Tesla, thereby improving the diversity of car game. After that, Tesla may expand its video game business and continuously expand its influence in related fields.
It is understood that this is not the first time Tesla has dabbled in car game, as early as 2018, Tesla began to carry several small games on the car central control, and then also updated several chess and landlord games in Tesla's game platform Tesla Arcade.
As early as last year's new Model S and Model X conference, Musk demonstrated the use of car machines to play the large-scale AAA game "Cyberpunk 2077", proving that the computing power of the car machine and sony PS5 is almost the same.
Tesla's introduction of Steam games also proves Musk's confidence in the car's engine system from the side, and at the same time shows consumers that Tesla's hardware configuration can stand the test.
First, re-form the game development team Car machine game or will pay
According to foreign media reports, Tesla already has a software team in charge of the video game business in Seattle, and they recently plan to build another one in Austin.
Previously, Tesla had built the game platform Tesla Arcade on the vehicle system, while porting the products of several game studios to the platform. But for gaming fan Musk, this only creates a little extra gaming experience for Tesla, so Tesla is likely to have a bigger car game plan.
Just recently, Musk said that when the car starts to drive itself, in-car entertainment becomes crucial, so Tesla will strive to achieve the goal of in-car entertainment later this year. There is already evidence that Tesla's video games released on the car game platform will continue to increase, and it may evolve into the company's industry.
According to foreign media reports, Tesla is planning to offer different video game payment packages in the car, and these games will be ported to Tesla's gaming platform along with the Steam game store.
Tesla Arcade, Tesla's gaming platform
Second, AMD chips provide support for games The computing power is comparable to the PS5
Last year, when Tesla released the new Model S and Model X, in addition to adding a unique square steering wheel, it also updated the relevant configuration of the car machine, and the updated game platform supported playing AAA games such as "The Witcher 3" and "Fallout". At that time, there were whistleblowers who said that it was AMD chips that drove the game platform, which was subsequently confirmed by the AMD CEO.
Tesla relevant person in charge said that the Tesla Arcade game platform up to 10 trillion floating-point operations processing power makes tesla car gaming experience become very good, even compared with the latest game console PS5 now, while equipped with wireless gamepads, users can sit in any seat in the car to play games. Patrick Schur, a blogger who focuses on breaking new chips, has also previously released a picture of the AMD Navi 23 GPU chip on Tesla's new game car.
▲AMD Navi 23 GPU chip diagram
In addition, the car game platform integrates and connects directly to the two touchscreens on the Model S and Model X cars, supporting entertainment functions such as playing games and watching movies. According to Musk, the new car has more memory and supports running multiple games at the same time on the platform.
VideoCardz also compared the configuration of the new car machine with the latest generation of game consoles, and according to the table data, it can be seen that the hardware configuration is indeed possible. Tesla is expected to use this new car machine to improve the in-car gaming experience.
▲ Comparison chart published by VideoCardz network
Conclusion: Tesla has mastered the code of carrying goods for car-machine entertainment
In the eyes of most car companies, Tesla's launch of the function of playing games with car machines may be funny, but this may be in line with the appetite of game fans, indirectly prompting them to buy Tesla, after all, Steam's own aura is still quite large.
In fact, domestic car companies started earlier in the development of car games. For example, as early as 2014, BYD had developed an intelligent networked car machine system called Car Pad, which can download a variety of games based on the Android system, and the selectivity exceeds that of Tesla. However, the public's attention to BYD's motorcycle entertainment is relatively low.
In recent years, Tesla has won the pursuit of many people with excellent products and advanced technical concepts. At the same time, Musk has also continued to market through social media, gaining popularity while also advertising products. This time Musk specifically responded to netizens on Tesla's car game, which is actually a marketing strategy, not only aware of the needs of customers, but also for the upcoming car game to save enough heat.