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

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.

It may seem odd for a car's in-car entertainment center to fit in with many of the high-end games on Steam. The Media Control Units and the Electronic Control Units used to power the cars have high-end graphics cards.

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At theComputex conference last June, Lisa Su said that the company was working withTesla to provide Ryzen APUs and a RDNA2 based graphics card that kicks in when running games, providing up to 10 Teraflops of compute power.

Su added that "we look forward to giving gaming fans a great platform for games of the highest quality." There is an opportunity for Linux game devs to work on something extremely exciting atTesla, and that could also be a reference to plans for integration with Steam and the Proton-powered Steam.

While the ability to import your Steam library to your car would be a neat feature, Musk has something of a reputation for making promises that don't quite pan out as planned. In any case, don't expect to be able to play any Steam games while your Tesla is in motion; after adding that capability for Tesla Arcade games over a year ago, the company turned it off again following the start of a formal NHTSA safety investigation.