Microsoft and LG combine efforts to turn your car into Xbox

Playing your favorite video games directly from car screens is no longer utopian. This trend has been gaining strength for several years and has just added two giants in the technological sector: Microsoft and LGThe field was both allied turn your car into xbox And how can it be otherwise, they will support Cloud games To get it.

From now on, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Addccliers will be able to access their catalog cloud names directly from compatible automobile screens. This will be possible in cars that use an entertainment platform LGwhich is based on Webos and is officially known as Automobile platform or ACP.

Access to cloud games in cars compatible with LG software will be provided through the Xbox application, as is already happening on other platforms on which you can play without a console. Although the Microsoft blog does not mention what will be the first vehicle that will add this characteristic, everything indicates that the models Kia They will be among the first.

In the middle of this year, the Korean automaker announced that his new models for European markets would accept the LG platform as automobile content as an entertainment system on board. The plan that will begin with Kia EV3 And this will subsequently spread to EV4, EV5 and New Sportage. Thus, if not mediation, they should be part of the initial litter of cars that can run XBOX games from the cloud.

Xbox Cloud Gaming reaches LG cars

The expansion of Cloud Gaming Xbox into the automobile segment is part of the strategy that Microsoft has adopted to convert any device in the console. Campaign “This is xbox” This continued for some time and allowed Redmond to double the adherence to cloud games and subscriptions to the game pass. Something, which was noticed not only in the field of portable consoles, but also for Smart TV and multimedia players.

As soon as the Microsoft platform is integrated with the LG platform, the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can gain access to the Xbox cloud games in compatible cars. In addition to cloud names, They can broadcast for some games that they already have in their personal libraryField

Of course, to play with the car, you will need an Internet connection and Compatible teamThe field in the small font of the question mentions that it is possible that the data plan in the vehicle is required to enjoy the experience GamesField

As we indicated at the beginning, the game directly from the car is a trend that gains strength for several years. Just like Microsoft causes access to Game Pass and Xbox Cloud Gaming from LG, Nvidia Now he did the same during GeForce. TeslaIn the meantime, he turned on Steam support at the end of 2022, with the difference that cars in this brand have enough powerful equipment to perform headings locally, regardless of the cloud.