By Mike Lucero, Head of Product Administration for Gaming at Samsung Electronics
Final June we got down to carry video video games and providers collectively in an easy-to-use platform, straight accessible by way of Samsung Sensible TVs. No downloads, no ready, no console required. Suitable with recreation controllers and Samsung units that gamers already personal.
Right now, we’re excited to replicate on the primary steps that Samsung Gaming Hub has taken to ship on that promise, and share a primary have a look at the brand new model identification rolling out worldwide within the coming months.
Samsung Gaming Hub brings the perfect of gaming collectively, invitations gamers to return as they’re, and empowers these gamers with extra choices in how they wish to play: whether or not it’s utilizing their Samsung Sensible TV distant to play arcade classics like Pac-Man and Area Invaders, or digging in for a full Halo marketing campaign with a PlayStation DualSense controller.
Our first 12 months has given our staff a lot to be pleased with; now we have broadened entry to recreation streaming all over the world – gamers throughout 9 territories can entry high-quality recreation streaming on over 21 million Samsung units – giving new and established gamers extra decisions to ‘simply play’ on their very own phrases. Month-to-month Energetic Customers have grown on Samsung Gaming Hub, with a thirteenfold enhance from July 2022 to Might 2023. And that is just the start.
In a single 12 months, Samsung Gaming Hub has added:
Extra Video games: Uncover and play over 3,000 video games via associate providers on Samsung Gaming Hub – from the most well-liked AAA and brand-new recreation launches like Starfield coming in September to beloved indie titles, arcade classics and extra. There’s one thing for everybody on Samsung Gaming Hub.
Uncover and play over 3,000 video games via associate providers on Samsung Gaming Hub – from the most well-liked AAA and brand-new recreation launches like Starfield coming in September to beloved indie titles, arcade classics and extra. There’s one thing for everybody on Samsung Gaming Hub. Extra Companions: Along with Xbox, NVIDIA GeForce NOW and Utomik – Samsung Gaming Hub added Amazon Luna, Antstream Arcade and Blacknut as streaming companions.
Along with Xbox, NVIDIA GeForce NOW and Utomik – Samsung Gaming Hub added Amazon Luna, Antstream Arcade and Blacknut as streaming companions. Extra Screens : After launching on 2022 Samsung Sensible TVs and screens, we launched backwards compatibility for associate apps with 2021 Sensible TVs giving tens of tens of millions of gamers entry to their favourite video games and providers on Samsung units – no console or PC required. Samsung Gaming Hub can also be out there throughout our 2023 TV lineup, and the latest Odyssey OLED G9, the world’s first 49” OLED monitor.
: After launching on 2022 Samsung Sensible TVs and screens, we launched backwards compatibility for associate apps with 2021 Sensible TVs giving tens of tens of millions of gamers entry to their favourite video games and providers on Samsung units – no console or PC required. Samsung Gaming Hub can also be out there throughout our 2023 TV lineup, and the latest Odyssey OLED G9, the world’s first 49” OLED monitor. Extra Areas: Samsung Gaming Hub is offered in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Spain, the U.S. and the U.Okay., with availability in additional areas coming quickly. In European nations that don’t at present assist the Gaming Hub, cloud gaming apps could be downloaded from the TV App Retailer and accessed via the Samsung Sensible Hub.
Samsung Gaming Hub is offered in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Spain, the U.S. and the U.Okay., with availability in additional areas coming quickly. In European nations that don’t at present assist the Gaming Hub, cloud gaming apps could be downloaded from the TV App Retailer and accessed via the Samsung Sensible Hub. Extra Methods to Decide Up and Play: Samsung Gaming Hub and associate apps via the Sensible Hub are suitable with 90% of Bluetooth controllers in the marketplace. We’ve even labored with companions to make some video games playable with cellular digital controllers from Amazon Luna, or by utilizing your Samsung TV distant to play video games from Antstream and Blacknut. This removes one other barrier of entry for potential gamers and unlocks gaming for a lot of new customers.
We took the Samsung Gaming Hub all over the world, that includes it at occasions together with Summer time Sport Fest, The Sport Awards, San Diego Comedian-Con, Gamescom, Day of the Devs, and the Brazil Sport Present. “Enjoying is believing” shortly grew to become our takeaway from these occasions and it continues to be an amazingly rewarding expertise for our staff to witness folks discovering the magic of recreation streaming firsthand via the Samsung Gaming Hub.
Gamers would innocently ask: “The place’s the console?” and their faces would gentle up once we would clarify that they don’t have to attend for downloads or fear about releasing up storage on their units. They may ‘simply play’ the video games that they wish to play. Creators and journalists who had been skeptical about recreation streaming stated that in the event that they didn’t know they had been streaming video games via theGaming Hub, then they might have believed they had been enjoying on a console. In a single 12 months we went from proving the expertise works to gamers asking us about “what’s subsequent” for Samsung Gaming Hub. Enjoying really is believing.
One rapid component of “what’s subsequent” is a refreshed model identification for the service. On this particular milestone birthday, we’re excited to unveil a brand new Samsung Gaming Hub brand to honor the developments over the previous 12 months, however extra importantly to sign the limitless potential for the platform to develop and evolve sooner or later. This revamped branding establishes Samsung Gaming Hub as an modern chief in gaming and reinforces Samsung’s steadfast dedication to recreation streaming throughout Samsung units. The brand new brand illustrates our promise to democratize gaming for everybody by unlocking entry to hundreds of video games with nearly any controller, so you’ll be able to simply play.
From the very starting our aim has been to construct one thing that gamers truly wish to use and addresses a number of the greatest ache factors we’ve heard from gamers like siloed recreation experiences that require a clunky leap from one platform to a different, or downloads that take ages and storage limitations that power gamers to decide on between experiences they wish to preserve or replace. As we glance to the longer term, Samsung stays dedicated to bringing top quality recreation streaming experiences to seasoned gamers and new avid gamers alike on their Samsung units.
We invite you to find new video games and previous favorites via the Samsung Gaming Hub.
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