DeanBeat: Samsung’s cloud gaming TV could be a big deal this fall

After some trips, I go home and absorb some of what I’ve seen. And what really impressed me was the Samsung Gaming Hub. Samsung GamingHub will debut on Samsung TV on June 30th with cloud gaming services such as Microsoft’s xCloud (now Xbox Cloud Gaming).

I think this will be a pretty great service for gamers. You can play cloud-based games on your TV without the need for a game console. Samsung Gaming Hub will be integrated into Samsung’s 2022 TV this fall, featuring cloud gaming services such as xCloud, GeForce Gaming, Google Stadia and Utomik. You will be able to play Xbox Game Pass games on your TV without a console.

I played xCloud and Utomik games at the Summer Games Fest PlayDays demo event in Los Angeles. Halo Infinite multiplayer was as smooth as butter. It plays at 1080p at 60 frames per second and can be upscaled to 4K if possible on your TV. I also did a lot of research on Minecraft and Microsoft Flight Simulator. When I jumped over the city of Naples in Italy, the texture went well.

I played a match, and even when I tried to shoot other players while playing in the cloud, I worked pretty well. Cloud gaming uses the computing power of the data center, so you don’t need a powerful home computer to play them. Even the computing power of the TV combined with the connected data center is enough to run a wide range of high-end Xbox games.

Don’t just believe my words. HipHopGamer was there to give it a try in front of me, he said. it’s over. They did. Xbox without a box. Xbox without a box. Samsung Gaming Hub. This is unbelievable. “

“I won on the clouds, baby,” he added.

Requires a 20 megabit connection per second. This can be used if most people in the United States have broadband services. Mike Lucero, Samsung’s game product management director, said this wasn’t the final build, but the technology was certified.

Samsung has added a low latency response time to the TV to allow the game to be displayed without delay. We’ve also added an Xbox section to the hub screen and added the Xbox app within the Samsung Gaming Hub for Neo QLED 8K / 4K, QLED TV, and smart monitor series. In game mode, the TV reduces waiting time by 30%.

“The overall idea was to make games a top-notch citizen on TV and bring all the games together in one experience,” Lucero said. “The problem we’re solving is that when you turn on your TV today, you’ll see all these video apps. If you have a game, it might end somewhere, but for gamers only. There is no place for .. So the point of the game hub was to create a place where everything in the game would come together, and that was our perception that games are the greatest form of entertainment. Gamers need to have their own special place on the TV. “

You can play Fortnite for free via the Xbox app. You can also stream over 100 high quality games such as Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon 5. You can also play new games on the first day of release from Xbox Game Studios and enjoy iconic franchises such as Bethesda Softworks.

You can pair either an Xbox controller or a PlayStation controller (and the latest controller) with your app. Press the home screen to see the games you recently played. If you’re an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriber ($ 15 / month), you’ll get a catalog of hundreds of games. The TV can connect to the best gaming data center and resume where it left off. When Xbox titles like Starfield are released in 2023, they will appear in Samsung Gaming Hub’s Xbox app on the first day.

Utomik CEO Doki Tops showed us some of the indie games available on his company’s cloud gaming service. It will also be available in the hub. If you’re looking for an indie game off the beaten road, you can find it here for $ 9 per month, early access to a library of over 1,000 games on your PC and over 100 games on Samsung TV. You can move from mobile games to TVs and PCs, but Tops has shown us how it works seamlessly. You can pick it up in the same place on your mobile app, TV or PC. I played a platform game, and it was pretty fluid.

Lucero talks about Samsung’s backstory and how its content strategy is expanding from mobile to TV and from entertainment to games. The company has added people who are familiar with games and has begun to establish relationships with companies like Microsoft.

“By not taking the game seriously, we realized that we were missing out on the biggest pie in the entertainment world,” says Lucero.

That’s why the team has focused on building game hubs for the past two years. In the meantime, game streaming has grown bigger and bigger. And Samsung focused on being a kind of Switzerland for games. After all, it should have a thousand games available.

“Now we are in a really good position,” Lucero said. “We saw many consumer issues, and they liked our idea. Not visible to our customers. We are just convenient. We choose the side. No. We love consoles. We love cloud streaming services. We aim to give consumers as many choices as possible. “

If I were Nintendo and Sony, I’m worried about how Xbox and Samsung can team up and serve games to those who don’t have a console. When you can’t easily get a next-generation console due to a lack of components, it may make a lot of sense to get a TV instead.

It reminds me of the old horror Microsoft had for the PlayStation 2. It will enter the house as a game box and take over all the computing in the house. Now we have the opposite. Samsung brings a TV to your home, which gives you the equivalent of a console in your living room.

So what I feel with the launch of Samsung Gaming Hubs and these cloud gaming-enabled TVs is some sort of turmoil on the market, and you can probably play games on so many devices that we may not be able to. It’s an awakening of the old concept that you actually need a console. Ask Hip Hop Gamer about it. He backs me up