Xbox Cloud Gaming offers a cost-efficient alternative to outright console purchases for new players. Microsoft has committed heavily to off-console gaming, providing access to a growing library of indie and AAA titles. Enjoy Xbox Cloud Gaming on various devices, providing a flexible gaming experience on mobile, smart TVs, and VR headsets.

Xbox's Cloud Gaming and remote play services are seeing excessively long load times as holiday demand hits servers.

Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to some LG TVs “later this year,” Microsoft and LG announced at CES 2025. When the feature is available, if you have an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, you’ll be able to stream games from the Xbox Game Pass library and select titles that you already own from the LG Gaming Portal.

Additionally, those with one of LG's newest Smart TVs will have access to the Gaming Portal. LG pitches this as a "versatile, gaming centric hub…designed as an all-in-one solution for seamless navigation and personalized gaming, both for the latest AAA games and casual webOS app games."

LG and Xbox have announced that they're bringing Xbox Cloud Gaming to LG smart TVs via the tech company's new Gaming Portal service.

Some Xbox Cloud Gaming titles support touch controls on smartphones and tablets. However, a wireless Bluetooth controller is a better option for a smart TV when playing console-oriented games. Microsoft's first-party Xbox controller is an obvious solution with widespread compatibility. Pairing these peripherals to LG TVs is usually straightforward.

LG Electronics and Xbox have announced a partnership to enhance the cloud gaming experience on LG Smart TVs. Through this partnership, users of the latest LG Smart TVs will be able to access hundreds of games through a new Xbox app and the Gaming Portal, an all-in-one solution that provides seamless navigation and extensive game customization.

With the tech convention extravaganza that is CES 2025 going on in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft and LG announced a new collaboration. In the coming year, LG will begin integrating Xbox Cloud Gaming into its new LG Smart TVs, allowing Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to access their favorite Xbox games via Microsoft’s cloud-based streaming services.