![]() ![]() At $3,500, the Ark is at the highest end of Samsung’s display pricing. At a premium SamsungĮven with all of the issues Ark has compared to the Odyssey G9 Neo, there’s one universal factor that limits its ability to catch on: price. This setup, with a console and a PC, is one of the main selling points of the Odyssey G9 Neo. Even without considering that Windows and MacOS don’t have tools for vertical displays, the fact that you can’t have a console on one screen and a PC on another defeats the whole purpose of having a display like the Ark in the first place. The rest of the screen is either dead space or room for Samsung apps. As it stands now, you can only have one HDMI source active on the Ark at a time. More importantly, the Odyssey G9 Neo properly supports multiple sources. The Odyssey G9 Neo is more practical because you can snap windows to either side of the screen (something you’ll have to manually do with the Ark in cockpit mode). Seeing double Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Going vertical doesn’t provide any advantages, at least on a screen as massive as the Ark. The Ark’s cockpit mode works with some games like Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it could work for productivity, but the tried-and-true setup of two 16:9 monitors is more familiar and more comfortable. ![]() That’s true of the Odyssey G9 Neo, as well, but you can see much more of your screen in your peripheral vision. Tilting your neck back to see the screen over and over looks like a quick recipe for neck pain, and you need to be a good distance away from the monitor to see everything (Samsung says at least two and a half feet). But that experience wouldn’t hold up over time. ![]() Seeing a massive 55-inch screen rotated vertically seems super practical and useful. The Ark looks really impressive when you look at it. In the peripheral Jacob Roach / Digital Trends The Ark may be recognizing a trend, but Samsung went with the all-out, curved screen gaming monitor approach like it did with the Odyssey G9, despite the fact that the groundwork wasn’t there to properly support that type of screen. But it’s still a relatively new category. There is a trend toward vertical monitors, as evidenced by displays like the LG DualUp. Windows and MacOS don’t have any features for stacking several windows vertically, and Samsung’s Multi-View, for all the functionality it enables, isn’t a substitute for people for want to use the Ark as a monitor, not as a weird pseudo-TV. Samsung is just recognizing that trend earlier, which is to the Ark’s detriment. TVs like the LG C2 OLED have become a more common option for high-end PC gamers as TV technology has leapfrogged monitors (especially in terms of HDR). ![]() Samsung recognized the issue with two monitors side-by-side and just made one big screen. More importantly, there was a demand for more horizontal screen real estate. Tools like Flawless Widescreen fixed aspect ratios in games, Windows evolved with better desktop snapping tools, and multi-monitor setups became more common (especially as people started working from home). Ultrawides had been on the market for around eight years at the time the Odyssey G9 went on sale, and for nearly 10 years when the updated Odyssey G9 Neo was released. Get ready: the first 8K ultrawide monitors are coming out in 2023īut there was a ground swell that made super ultrawide possible: regular 21:9 ultrawide. Samsung’s new Odyssey Neo G9 gaming monitor is beautiful, but it has a fatal flaw Samsung wants you to reserve the Odyssey OLED G9 - without knowing the price ![]()
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