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Xbox has been discussing bringing the Game Pass Ultimate library to smart TVs for at the very least a year, and now it's coming in 2022. The Xbox app will be available on this year's Samsung smart TVs and monitors as well as smart TVs. Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can play games in the cloud without the need for additional hardware except the Bluetooth-connected gamingpad. gaming Even a PlayStation controller will do the trick. Some 2022 Samsung smart TV models already have game-streaming capabilities, such as Google Stadia and NVIDIA's GeForce Now. Samsung introduced a brand new Gaming Hub for its TVs in January, which puts these cloud services front-and-center and the Xbox app is expected to join them. Xbox is one of the biggest forces in the world of cloud gaming, having more than 25 million Game Pass subscribers - though not all of these are at the Ultimate tier, which unlocks streaming capabilities. The Game Pass Ultimate library has hundreds of games to stream, and Xbox has made it a priority to launch its biggest first-party games from the beginning. On Samsung devices, the Xbox app will be compatible with Bluetooth headsets and gamepads like the Xbox Wireless Controller, and PlayStation's DualShock 4 and DualSense. There's no update at present on the dedicated streaming device that Xbox announced it was working on last year in conjunction with the smart TV app. Xbox has bigger plans for Game Pass in the coming months. In the coming year, the company is planning to offer Ultimate subscribers to stream certain games they purchase outside of the Game Pass library. It's unclear how this will break down and it's likely to apply to games that are not part of the Game Pass catalog but remain within the Xbox ecosystem, but it could also apply to games from third-party distributors. A spokesperson for Xbox confirmed that the company will offer Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play selected games from the cloud. We'll have more to share on the games that will be available through Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) in the coming year." Xbox is bringing cloud gaming to two new nations, Argentina and New Zealand on June 9th. minecraft This includes access to the Xbox streaming library as well as Fortnite. Epic Games partnered with Xbox to bring Fortnite to Xbox Cloud Gaming. It's free to play without a subscription. At the time, Xbox said it was interested in adding other free-to-play games to its cloud gaming network. Xbox will be testing the system that lets multiple profiles play at the same time under one Game Pass subscription over the next year. It will be tested in Colombia and Ireland, and Xbox executives are promoting it as an "potential addition" to Game Pass. Finally games demos are coming to Game Pass. In the next year, Xbox will start rolling out bite-sized, curated pieces of games coming out in Game Pass, allowing subscribers to try these games at no cost and provide feedback to developers. The program will initially concentrate on independent games. Xbox stated that developers will be paid for their participation, so the work involved in making a demo won't go unfunded. The demo program is called Project Moorcroft. There's no confirmation on whether there will be a Minecraft Project Moorcroft demo will ever drop, but it's fun to say that no matter. Free game demos that are time-limited are one of the perks of the new PlayStation Plus subscription service, that will be competing directly with Game Pass. The new PS Plus will go live on June 13th. Premium is the most expensive version of the service provides access to 700 games in the PS Now library and cloud play for a few games from earlier PlayStation eras. Sony's subscription plan doesn't support native streaming on mobile devices, as Xbox's does, and it won't include any new, first-party games at launch. Sony received negative press in April after reports surfaced that the company was making it mandatory for developers of certain games to build and release two-hour demos for PlayStation Plus Premium, with no indication of how it would compensate them for the work. Xbox, of course, was careful to emphasize its plans to compensate developers for building demos. ADDICT GAMING