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

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After some travels, I’m back at home and absorbing some of the things I’ve seen. And one of the things that I found to be truly impressive was the Samsung Gaming Hub, which will debut on Samsung TVs this fall with cloud gaming services such as Microsoft’s xCloud.

I think this is going to be a pretty amazing service for gamers. It lets you play cloud-based games on the TV — without the need for a game console. The Samsung Gaming Hub is going to be embedded in Samsung’s 2022 TVs this fall, and it will feature cloud gaming services such as xCloud, GeForce Gaming, Google Stadia and Utomik. You will be able to play Xbox Game Pass games on the TV without a console.

I played games from xCloud and Utomik at the Play Days demo event for the Summer Games Fest in Los Angeles. Halo Infinite multiplayer was as smooth as butter. It played at 60 frames per second at 1080p, and you can upscale it to 4K if the TV can do it. I also got a good look at Minecraft and Microsoft Flight Simulator. I flew over the Italian city of Naples, and the textures came in just fine.

I played a match, and I did pretty well, even when trying to shoot other players while I was playing on the cloud. Cloud games use the computing power of datacenters, so you don’t need a powerful home computer to play them. Even the computing power of a TV, combined with the connected datacenter, is enough to run a wide range of high-end Xbox games.

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