Samsung / Microsoft Can a TV replace your video game console? That’s a question Samsung has flirted with for over the past two years. It started with the reveal of Samsung Gaming Hub , a handy smart TV widget that brought several cloud streaming apps together. With it, anyone with a recent Samsung TV could instantly cloud stream games from Amazon Luna, GeForce Now, and, crucially, Xbox Game Pass .
Samsung is even doubling down this year with the introduction of exclusive games that can be played with nothing more than a TV and phone. There’s a very real world in which someone could not own a single console and still have access to an enormous library of games. Recommended Videos But how viable is that? Can you really lead a full gaming life entirely through your TV? After years of curiosity, I finally gave that a try for myself.
I bought a Samsung TV for my new home office and quickly immersed myself in the Gaming Hub ecosystem. Though there’s no chance it’ll change my gaming setup long term, I’m starting to see where the extra flexibility could weave into my routines — even if it’s not always the ideal way to play. Gaming on a TV My experiment would begin when I moved into a new railroad-style apartment and converted a narrow middle room into a home office.
I decided that I’d want to move all of my gaming consoles into that room so it would be easier to jump over to them during the workday, leaving an Xbox Series S on my living room TV as a streaming app box..
