Samsung has revealed two new gaming monitors at Gamescom this week, the Odyssey G70B and Odyssey G65B, both of which have access to cloud gaming services. This all works thanks to Samsung Gaming Hub – an app that has access to services like GeForce NOW, Stadia, and Xbox Game Pass.
Much like the massive Odyssey Ark that Samsung is launching next month, both the Odyssey G70B and G65B will have gaming hub out of the box. Samsung Gaming Hub is also available on a number of Samsung smart TVs, and is likely to come to even more gaming monitors and TVs in the future. In fact it’s almost a certainty.
Samsung said earlier this year that gaming hub would be coming to both current and future smart TVs and gaming monitors. And these are the first new monitors (save for the Odyssey Ark) to come with the feature.
The Samsung Odyssey G70B & G65B come with Gaming Hub and Samsung Smart Platform
In addition to Gaming Hub, both monitors will come with the Samsung Smart Platform embedded in them. Making these the first Odyssey monitors on the market to have both of those features. Which means you can use them without a PC. The Odyssey G70B will come in two sizes – 28-inch and 32-inch, offering a 144Hz refresh rate. As well as the ever-familiar 1ms response time that can be found on many of Samsung’s gaming monitors.
The G65B meanwhile will come in 27-inch and 32-inch sizes and come with a noticeably faster 240Hz refresh rate. The G70B also features a 4K UHD resolution while the G65B is QHD.
Control your monitor with your voice
If it wasn’t enough that Samsung’s new monitors come with Gaming Hub and Samsung Smart Platform, they also come with voice control. Users can access certain functions to control their monitors with Bixby and Amazon Alexa. Each monitor is equipped with a high-sensitivity far field voice microphone. Users can even enable an always-on voice feature that allows voice control when the monitors are turned off.
Although this will no doubt be a privacy issue for some. Both the G70B and G65B will be globally available from Q4 of this year. Samsung has not announced pricing or release dates yet though.