Your smartphone serves as a joystick!

You control your TV with your remote control, because it's become a habit. And you can browse the features of Android TV with the latter, since it is perfectly adapted. But to play games, it's not always very practical, especially when you have to be responsive. You can of course go for an Android TV compatible controller. There are many models, and if you have a PS4, the controller is compatible. You can connect up to four controllers for more joint family fun!

But the simplest and most economical solution is to use your smartphone as a touchpad: a possibility offered by Android TV in recent years, and that offers multiple advantages , such as the adaptation of controls according to the video game, or the use of phone sensors, for more immersion. And the installation is very simple: just be guided by the Android TV interface, which explains, step by step, how to associate your smartphone to the TV. And again, you can connect up to four terminals!

The video below may give you only an idea of all ​​the possibilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvPUD6eI_vw

Games for the whole family

Do you think playing on TV is synonymous with just simple little games? You are wrong ! There are, of course, small games on Android TV. But just as you can play beautiful big games on your smartphone, you can also play them on your TV set.

Examples ? just to name a few: Middle-earth: OdlG, Sonic the Hedgehog, Survival Island, Star Wars: KOTOR or : Thimbleweed Park allow you to fill up on adventures at a low price. You will have for plenty hours of games!

Or Do you prefer racing games? Then go for Asphalt 8: Airborne, one of today's best games. And if you want to entertain your whole family, you can go for board game adaptations, like the very good Pandemic cooperative game for example. And the catalog from Google offers many educational activities to play with your children on your TV, and to share a good time with them.

The TV, a tablet like the others?

The range of gaming applications is so vast, and by browsing the catalog directly proposed on your TV, you will undoubtedly discover regular additions and many video game demos, to test before eventually buying them.

The particularity of Android TV is that it draws its strength from the very broad catalog of applications offered on smartphones and tablets that also use Android. The offer is huge, and if an application is available on Android TV, it is because it has been adapted and optimized for this support. So you do not run any risk of finding yourself with a game that does not work properly on your TV.

Android TV is like a huge tablet that will be installed in the heart of your living room! With two exceptions: you control it with your remote control or your smartphone, and you share it with all the members of the family. And icing on the cake: if you have to stop in the course of the game, you can also  resume playing it further on your smartphone, if the Android account is the same on your TV and your handheld.

So many reasons to opt for the video game on your Android TV Television set, right?