Xbox Cloud Gaming Coming to LG Smart TVs - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 January 2025 / 4,600 Views
Microsoft and LG have announced Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to LG Smart TVs later this year.
Xbox Cloud Gaming is available for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members and will be able to play Xbox games available on the Xbox app via cloud gaming.
Microsoft will share more details Xbox Cloud Gaming coming to LG Smart TVs in the "coming months."
Read details below:
We’re focused on bringing more games to more people around the world, on the devices you choose to play with. Millions of Game Pass Ultimate members are already using Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) to play great games from the Game Pass catalog on various devices.
Today, we’re excited to announce our collaboration with LG Electronics to bring the Xbox app to their new LG Smart TVs later this year. This means Game Pass Ultimate members will be able to play their games directly from the Xbox app on supported LG Smart TVs via Xbox Cloud Gaming. This gives players even more choice in how they enjoy their favorite games.
Soon, players with LG Smart TVs will be able to explore the Gaming Portal for direct access to hundreds of games in the Game Pass Ultimate catalog, including popular titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and upcoming releases like Avowed (launching February 18, 2025).
Stream Your Own Game
We also recently announced that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members can stream select games they own, outside the Game Pass catalog. This feature will also be available on the Xbox app with LG Smart TVs, allowing Game Pass Ultimate members to stream over 50 games they own, including NBA 2K25, Hogwarts Legacy, and more.
We’ll share more details on the Xbox Cloud Gaming experience with LG TV in the coming months. To learn more about Xbox Cloud Gaming and how you can play across TVs and browsers on supported devices like smartphones, PCs, and tablets, visit xbox.com/cloudgaming.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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No, Xbox marketing department. That is not an Xbox. That is a streaming service. There is a difference.
Time and time again gamers have voted with their wallets against game streaming. While the technology matures, it will never be on the same level as movie or music streaming, simply because you constantly need lag-less input comm. That is impossible to achieve.
Yes, there is probably a small market for this, but that one mostly overlaps with the same people who are more than ok with mobile-level time wasters. If that is the market MS is banking on, then good luck to them!
MS believes there is an untapped market of gamers out there that they can reach if they just make gaming as accessible as possible. I think they are going to find out that's not the case but we will see.
I think you guys are a bit to negative, not that I think it will be a big succes. It is just an option you can choose how to play 'your' games and I don't see how more options is bad...
That is true. Having more options is good. But they do seem to focus on this as a core part of their expansion strategy, while the proven segments are crumbling. They don't seem to make huge inroads in the PC space and their console business is collapsing. Every single growth that we have seen in their gaming segment was due to their purchase of ABK.
Now, they might be more successful in some instances, but until they won't be more open about it, we really can only speculate based on the crumbs of informations we are getting.
Big fat pass.
Not only do I find the ARM SoC's in LG's TV's to be extremely terrible resulting in laggy user interfaces anyway... But the input latency of video game streaming is just not for me.
Is mayonnaise an Xbox?
How many of you people have actually tried Xbox cloud streaming? I use it fairly often, to play online games with a friend that doesn't ever want to stick to any one title. I've had no problems with it at all. Indistinguishable from gaming on a local device in 100% of cases for me. He also streams the games, and hasn't reported any problems.
Several years ago, I actually streamed Destiny 2 to my phone, via Xbox streaming. This was just done as a test to see if a shooter would be playable. And it definitely was playable. I didn't try any PvP, but I did not notice any issues playing PvE.
Any games that I'm playing myself, I download or otherwise run locally. I don't even want the risk of streaming issues. But, the reality is that I've done a lot of streaming and haven't had any problems at all. I think a lot of the people commenting here are just talking about what they assume the experience is like, and don't have much actual experience with it.
Can someone please answer this for me.
If someone wanted to play these sorts of core titles, I wouldn't of thought that a £250 Xbox Series S was much of a roadblock.
I mean really is there that many people who want to play Gears of War but are not prepared to lay out for an Xbox Series S?
Or how many of them don't have access to a mid-range PC? Hell you can play Gears 5 on any 5 year old gaming laptop. I think they overestimate the potential reach and appeal of this, but time will tell.
Well lots of people don't want to use a PC for gaming, normally because sitting at a desk is not how most people consume entertainment.
But the thinking behind Microsofts push for "Xbox Everywhere" is that actually lots of people want to play Forza, Gears and Flight simulator but refuse to pay £250 for an Xbox Series S.
I just don't believe this market even exists.
Agreed. Hell, we got deals as low as 200 euros for the 1TB XSS at one point, and that is as impulse-buy territory as one gets. Hell, anything under 300$, in '25 dollars is impulse buy territory.
Also, how many will actually decide to buy a console, the first time network goes down, while friends are over? Maybe that is their plan? Convince people that they should buy a Series console, after experiencing how bad game streaming is?
People still crying over their favorite gamebox. The console is over. the platform war has begun.
No. This is a total misunderstanding of the market.
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