The Xbox TV app will be part of the new Samsung Gaming Hub, which will be your one-stop shop for all things gaming when it comes to Samsung’s 2022 Smart TVs on June 30.Īhead of the official launch, I got to spend some hands-on time with the new app as well as speak to Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, and Won-Jin Lee, president and head of Samsung Electronics’ Service Business Team, to learn more about how the two companies are working together to bring gaming to even more people.Īs someone who plays tons of Xbox games on console and PC, I found the Samsung TV version of the Xbox app to feel immediately familiar. That’s why Microsoft is bringing the Xbox app to Samsung TVs, allowing you to enjoy a true console-style gaming experience in your living room without actually having to buy a console. But let’s be real: These games are meant to be played on a TV. Microsoft’s popular gaming subscription service lets you stream games from the cloud to almost any device with a screen, making it easy to get a quick Halo, Forza or Gears of War session going on your phone, tablet or laptop.

We’ve long considered Xbox Game Pass to be the best value in gaming, partially because you don’t actually need an Xbox to enjoy it. I wanted to fly over m y hotel in downtown MN, and it just lagged too much.Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account But there was definite lag while playing that with streaming. I'm throwing it away anyways at the end of the trip. For some reason it wasn't accepting my flight stick input (I bought a cheap joystick at Target over here, just to play for a while,) maybe it was just the type I bought. I did try MSFS 2020 Streaming, and I did not have a good time with that. But I have run into a couple times where the game will get pixilated for a few seconds, and it will move at a couple frames per second, instead of 60. But using the Hotels network, I have been able to play some Forza Horizon 5 streaming. Currently I'm in Minnesota for a business trip. Streaming is good for instance when you're nowhere near your console. So if you have a data cap, the network or IP speeds aren't great, you will get lagging gameplay, and the quality of whatever you're playing will drop automatically. You're constantly connected to a 'Virtual Machine' that you are streaming the data from. But you do still have to be constantly downloading.

Cloud streaming is good, if you don't want to save whatever you're playing, to the internal HDD.

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