Amazon is the newest tech-giant to enter the cloud gaming scene with its Luna. Amazon held its 2020 hardware event recently and the main highlight of it was the cloud gaming platform Luna. The service was in the rumors for over a year now, with previous rumors mentioning a codename Tempo. However, today’s event reveals that the service will officially be named ‘Luna’.
Initially, Amazon has plans to launch it for PC, Mac, Fire TV, and iPhone and iPad. There is an Android version in the works that will come after the launch. Amazon has started an early access program for people in the US. Users can sign up for the program starting today. There is no news about international availability as of yet.
Amazon has also announced that the service will start from $5.99 as an introductory price. The early access plan includes gaming simultaneously on up to two devices with resolution up to 4k running at 60 FPS. Amazon will use AWS servers for this service as well. Since this service will rely on AWS, and Amazon already has a vast network established worldwide and we can expect availability to widen in the near future.
Amazon says that Luna games will target 1080p and 60fps at release, with Amazon aiming for 4K/60fps once the service launches in full. At least a 10mbps Internet connection will be required to play a 1080p and 35mbps to play at 4K. Amazon will also be offering a Luna controller for $50 for direct communication with the cloud service.
Luna subscribers will be playing their games on a Windows-based EC2 G4 server instance, powered by an Intel Cascade Lake CPU and an NVIDIA T4 GPU. The NVIDIA T4 is designed for running on servers, but it’s based on the Turing architecture and should provide 8.1 teraflops of performance, making it roughly as powerful as a GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card with Ray tracing support as well.
Right at launch, the following games will be part of the service with regular titles arriving on the service:
- A Plague Tale: Innocence
- Abzu
- AO Tennis 2
- Aragami
- Blasphemous
- BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
- Blazing Chrome
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- Castlevania Anniversary Collection
- Contra Anniversary Collection
- Control
- CrossCode
- Deponia Doomsday
- DiRT Rally 2.0
- Everspace
- Furi
- Ghost of a Tale
- Goodbye Deponia
- Grid
- Hard Reset Redux
- Iconoclasts
- Indivisible
- Infinite Minigolf
- Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth
- Lumines Remastered
- Metro Exodus
- Mighty Switch Force! Collection
- Obduction
- Overcooked! 2
- Panzer Dragoon Remake
- Paper Beast
- R-Type Dimensions EX
- Redout: Solar Challenge Edition
- Resident Evil 7
- Rez Infinite
- Rime
- River City Girls
- The Sexy Brutale
- Shadow Tactics
- Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse
- Shantae: Half-Genie Hero – Ultimate Edition
- Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut
- Sonic Mania Plus
- Star Wars Pinball
- SteamWorld Dig
- SteamWorld Dig 2
- SteamWorld Heist: Ultimate Edition
- SteamWorld Quest
- Super Mega Baseball 3
- The Surge
- The Surge 2
- Sythentik: Legion Rising
- Tacoma
- Tangledeep
- Tennis World Tour 2
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III
- Thimbleweed Park
- Valfaris
- Victor Vran: Overkill Edition
- Wonder Boy: The Dragon Trap
- XIII
- Yoku’s Island Express
- Yooka-Laylee
- Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
- Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
One of the major trends in content creation right now is twitch streaming. Keeping up with the trends Luna will also feature a twitch integration. Players will be able to see twitch streams inside the platform they will also be able to stream their own Luna gameplay. Amazon Luna launches in early access sometime in early October. Initially, you will be able to play PC, Mac, Amazon’s Fire TV, and iOS devices.
What do you think about Amazon jumping into the cloud gaming genre with its new service Luna? Would you consider opting for Amazon Luna when it launches? Let us know in the comments section below.
