Musk says he wants to install Steam games in Tesla infotainment centers

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Since Tesla first introduced in-car gaming with a 2019 port of Cuphead, the list of games available on its "Tesla Arcade" platform has slowly grown to include just under 20 games. Now, though, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has expressed interest in expanding that list of Tesla-compatible games to include the tens of thousands of titles available on the Steam gaming platform.

In true Musk style, the informal announcement of those plans came via a thrown-off tweet in a thread expressing admiration for CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 (a game that has previously been demoed running on the infotainment system for the Model S Plaid). "We're working through the general case of making Steam games work on a Tesla vs specific titles," Musk wrote. "Former is obviously where we should be long-term."

A car's infotainment center may seem like an odd fit for many of the high-end games available on Steam. But Tesla cars have long sported high-end graphics cards at the heart of both its Media Control Unit (for the infotainment console) and the Electronic Control Unit used to power the car's autopilot self-driving systems.

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