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Xbox has been talking about bringing Game Pass Ultimate library to smart TVs for at least one year. It's finally happening in 2022. The Xbox app will launch on this year's lineup of Samsung smart TVs and monitors on June 30 and will allow Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to play titles in the cloud without additional hardware other than an Xbox-connected gamepad. The app can be played with any PlayStation controller. Around 2022 Samsung smart TV models currently support game-streaming services including Google Stadia and NVIDIA's GeForce Now. Samsung has launched a new Gaming Hub for its TVs in January, putting these cloud services in the spotlight, and the Xbox app is scheduled to join them. Xbox is one of the most powerful players in the world of cloud gaming, having more than 25 million Game Pass subscribers - though not all of these are at the Ultimate level, which allows streaming capabilities. The Game Pass Ultimate library has hundreds of games that you can stream, and Xbox has made it a point to launch its most popular first-party games on the service on the first day. The Xbox app for Samsung devices will support Bluetooth headsets, gamepads, and the DualShock 4 and DualSense PlayStations. Xbox has not yet provided any updates for the streaming device which it said it was working on last year, in conjunction with the smart TV app. In the coming months, Xbox has even more plans for Game Pass. Later this year, the company is planning to allow Ultimate subscribers to stream certain games that they purchase outside of the Game Pass library. It's unclear exactly how this will work and it's likely to apply to games that have left the Game Pass catalog but remain within the Xbox ecosystem, though it could also apply to games from third-party distributors. In response to a question about clarification A Xbox spokesperson stated, "Later this year, we're planning to launch the capability for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play games from the cloud that you already own or purchase outside the Xbox Game Pass library. In the coming year, we'll be sharing more details about the specific games that will support Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta). On June 9th, Xbox will bring cloud gaming to Argentina and New Zealand. This includes access to the Xbox streaming library and Fortnite. Xbox collaborated with Epic Games to bring Fortnite to Xbox Cloud Gaming in May and is now available to play there for free without the need for a subscription. Xbox said it was open to adding additional free-to-play titles in its cloud gaming network. Over the coming year or at least, Xbox plans to test out the system that allows multiple accounts to play at simultaneously under the same Game Pass subscription. It will be tested in Colombia and Ireland as well as in Ireland, and Xbox executives are positioning it as a "potential enhancement" to Game Pass. Finally, Game Pass will soon have demos of games. Xbox will begin the release of small, curated bits of upcoming games to Game Pass within the next year. This will allow subscribers to play these games free of charge and give feedback to developers. The program will concentrate on independent games first and Xbox said developers will be compensated for participating which means that all the work involved in creating the demo will be paid for. The demo program is dubbed Project Moorcroft. There's no word on when a Minecraft Project Moorcroft demo will ever be released but it's fun say that no matter. EXTREMECRAFT The new PlayStation Plus subscription service will provide time-limited, free demos of all games. It will compete directly with Game Pass. The new PS Plus will go live on June 13th. Premium, the most expensive level of the service, gives access to 700 games in the PS Now library and cloud play for a few games from previous PlayStation eras. Sony's subscription plan does not support native streaming on mobile devices like Xbox's and won't include any first-party games when it launches. After reports surfaced that Sony was making it mandatory for developers of certain games to create and publish two-hour demos, without plans to reward them for their efforts, Sony received negative press. Xbox clarified that it plans to pay developers to create demos.