Today is the official first full day of launch for Starfield on PC and Xbox Series X|S consoles, but you can also play the game directly on your Samsung TV without either of those things. How you may ask? Easy. With that Xbox Game Pass.
As you may already know, Samsung has been leading the charge with cloud gaming services availability on its TVs with Samsung Gaming Hub. Inside of Gaming Hub, you have access multiple cloud gaming services via special Samsung TV versions of their respective applications. Xbox Game Pass is of course one of these. And because Starfield is a day-one title on Game Pass, you can load it up right on your TV by doing nothing more than launching the app and hitting the play button on Starfield’s game page.
Explore Starfield thanks to Samsung and Xbox Game Pass
It’s the quickest way to jump right into the action and begin your adventure with ‘Constellation’ – the faction around which the game’s main story is based. Granted, the experience may vary depending on how strong your internet connection is. Since it is cloud gaming after all. We’ve personally been testing the game on the RTX 4090-powered Predator Triton 17 X that Acer graciously sent out. And it certainly makes the game look beautiful. But that also requires downloading and installing the game. Not to mention having the money to put down on such an expensive piece of hardware.
If you’re not about all that, and you have a compatible Samsung TV or monitor, then you can bypass those long wait times for downloads. And trust me, the sooner you can start playing, the better. Because Starfield is a massive game with lots and lots to do. And you’ll need lots and lots of time to do it all.
This includes but isn’t limited to completing the main quest. Alongside tons of side quest stories, and maybe even romancing a character for a special in-game stat buff (you’re going to want to do this). Beyond all that, you’re still barely scratching the surface. There’s over 1,000 planets to explore across the many systems in the game universe. And while not all of them have enemies (or life for that matter), most if not all will have resources you can gather.
Resources that will be needed for the game’s multiple crafting systems. Which almost feel like games in themselves. And of course, there’s the ship building. Oh, the ship building. Where a large portion of players will undoubtedly spend many waking hours. The point is, the game offers a lot. And you might not want to deal with downloads and get straight to the gameplay.