Announced ago only 3 weeks, a major innovation has now been made possible on the Samsung branded smart TVs released in 2022the ability to play a large catalog of video games via theapplication Xbox directly on your screen, without going through the purchase of a console. games like Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinitebut also A Plague Tale : Innocence or Microsoft Flight Simulator. A technological breakthrough that might change a lot of things in the future.
Game Pass when you hold us
Indeed, from June 30 and in more than 25 countries, you can now access the games present in the Xbox Cloud Gaming directly from the home screen of your Smart TV. To do this, however, you will need to meet several pre-requisites in addition to having a very good internet connection :
- Equip yourself with a Samsung Smart TV brand TV released this year (regarding ten models are concerned).
- Download and launch l’application Xbox from the Samsung Gaming Hub or the Media Hub.
- Subscribe to a subscription Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (the only one containing access to Xbox Cloud Gaming) at the price of €12.99 per month to have access to several hundred titles directly.
- Plug in a controller via Bluetooth to the TV (Xbox, third-party or even Sony).
Note that only the game Fortnite is available in the app without having to subscribe to the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. It will also soon be possible to play more games, present or not in the Xbox Game Pass, from the moment they are present in your library of purchased games.
Although this is currently only available on certain models, only from the Samsung brand and released this year, we can easily imagine that this represents only one step in the advancement of Microsoft services in our homes in order to give access to as many people as possible to a large catalog of content.
In the first communications regarding this deployment on Samsung TVs, Xbox also announced that it was working actively with other television manufacturers around the world. Xbox has also confirmed via a blog post that they will soon reveal the next steps in their ambition to roll out to as many devices as possible.
