Samsung is revealing a brand new lineup of good TVs at CES 2022 at present, together with options as unique as radio-wave powered distant controls and help for NFTs — they usually additionally occur to be the primary Samsung units shortly to allow you to play triple-A video video games from the cloud as a substitute of simply your Xbox, PlayStation or PC. After an obscure tease in October, Samsung is now confirming that “select” 2022 fashions will explicitly include Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Google Stadia, and the Utomik cloud gaming service as a part of a brand new “Samsung Gaming Hub,” a consumer interface which Samsung’s desiring to increase to extra providers as properly.

The Samsung Gaming Hub isn’t only for cloud gaming, both. Intriguingly, the corporate says that your HDMI-connected online game consoles will likely be a part of it as properly — full with passthrough controller inputs. That means you would possibly have the ability to play cloud video games and console video games with the identical controller, as a substitute of getting to take care of separate controllers or pair backwards and forwards. It’s additionally promising “AI Gaming Hub technology” that can create curated sport suggestions in your TV’s dwelling display, which… okay, positive.

It’s attention-grabbing to see TV producers embrace cloud gaming once more, after a little bit of a lapse. While LG and Samsung each competed for the rights to stream video games from Gaikai and OnLive again in 2012, and a few Samsung TVs supplied Sony’s PlayStation Now between 2015 and 2017, it’s solely this winter that LG and Samsung are again within the sport with Nvidia and Google’s providers.

It’s not clear whether or not Samsung’s TVs will provide one of the best image and audio high quality for cloud gaming fairly but, as the corporate was unable to say whether or not both GeForce Now or Google Stadia would provide 4K streaming. “We are working with partners to bring their best levels of service to our platform,” reads a part of a press release through spokesperson Alice Martinez. “We will be announcing details as we get closer to launch.”

If you’ve obtained an earlier Samsung Smart TV, there’s additionally no telling whether or not you’ll get entry to any of those options. “We are starting with our 2022 models and are working to make the Gaming Hub available to even more Samsung customers,” writes Samsung’s rep.

It’s attention-grabbing to me that Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming, aka xCloud, isn’t a part of this launch. Microsoft and Samsung prominently partnered on cloud gaming in February 2020, and we obtained xCloud on a sensible fridge and a few Samsung Android telephones, however the Xbox app for good TVs that Phil Spencer advised us about in November 2020 hasn’t materialized but, and solely obtained a quick point out final June forward of — as a substitute of throughout — the E3 2021 online game expo.

Samsung Smart TVs have supplied a Steam Link app for some time, however Samsung’s rep tells The Verge it gained’t be a part of this Gaming Hub.