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It’s not clear when Luna will launch widely, but it will initially be available on PC, Mac, Fire TV, and iPhone and iPad (via web apps), with an Android version planned for after launch. Amazon says that interested users in the US can request early access to the service starting today. There’s no word on international availability.
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Players who subscribe to this channel will have access to their favorite Ubisoft titles in up to 4K resolution, mobile gameplay, and access to new titles when the channel launches like Assassins Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6, and Immortals Fenyx Rising the same day they release. This is the first of multiple Luna game channels in development, where customers can play games from their favorite publishers and genres.
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And this is why I believe MS moved on Bethseda.
loaded my twitter feed at the most lucky time.
cheapchips
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They've said for some time that they see Amazon and Google as their competitors. At first glance, this looks much more like the Gamepass competitor that Stada isn't.
Twitch is a huge string in Amazon's bow for promoting the thing to.
Doesn't say the Ubisoft games are free with the service subscription though, seems to use marketing speak to phrase that paragraph. It states those who "subscribe" to the Ubisoft game channel.
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Google had a way bigger platform to promote Stadia (!YouTube!) and couldn't do shit about it. People don't want to eat shit even if it smells and looks like peanut butter. Content & price is king. This is Stadia 1.01. But...Amazon& Google won't stop there even it this fails miserably...too much money to be made in the next decade. Microsoft is just the front runner for now (and probably the foreseeable future).
i wonder if Facebook will also make a play in this space.
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100 games seems a little low compared with the competition. PSNow has over 800 https://psnowguide.com/
cheapchips
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Is YouTube game streaming bigger than Twitch? I didn't think it was? The targeted element is important. Amazon having an offering that's not as silly as Google's helps too.
They'll need to allow other controllers/touch when they actually go live. The dedicated controller is too much of a barrier for "I'll give that a punt".
I relentlessly promoted streaming/Stadia until I tried it. The lag simply makes multiplayer unplayable. Dont let anybody tell you different, and whether it's Stadia, Luna, Geforce Now, Xcloud, doesn't matter, they're all shit, and all unplayable for twitch MP. Turns out none of them can get around the laws of physics. With so much of gaming on the ground now being MP (like fortnight), that's probably an intractable barrier.
I now see streaming as at best in the near term a fringe play. Something perhaps additive to what we have currently, not to replace it. Maybe 10% of the market or something.
Take my game Destiny for example. You cant play MP on it (lag). You probably cant even do difficult PVE (raids etc). You can do light PVE though (mindless bounties etc). I was recently thinking of selling my One X a few weeks early in prep for Series X. But I'm going to need one thing in Destiny for a seal thats not going to be available until the last week of the season, near Nov 10. So, I would have no way to do that objective. But then it occurred to me, I could just do it on Xcloud! No hardware (but an Android tablet or phone) even needed!
That's kind of a cool use case, but the fringe I'm talking about.
So I guess Luna is basically repackaged Stadia?
I now see streaming as at best in the near term a fringe play. Something perhaps additive to what we have currently, not to replace it. Maybe 10% of the market or something.
Take my game Destiny for example. You cant play MP on it (lag). You probably cant even do difficult PVE (raids etc). You can do light PVE though (mindless bounties etc). I was recently thinking of selling my One X a few weeks early in prep for Series X. But I'm going to need one thing in Destiny for a seal thats not going to be available until the last week of the season, near Nov 10. So, I would have no way to do that objective. But then it occurred to me, I could just do it on Xcloud! No hardware (but an Android tablet or phone) even needed!
That's kind of a cool use case, but the fringe I'm talking about.
So I guess Luna is basically repackaged Stadia?
now we just have to see what apple does. Almost took a job on their project
Xcloud has a slight bonus of being on mobile so no TV input lag which helps it shave some somewhat. It's still poor for twitch MP, I played Halo 5 and whilst I could play it was very disorientating and not ideal, a 30 fps shooter would be slightly better but I cannot see it ever being fun.
They need to get apps running native on TVs as anything via hdmi is doa I think.
They need to get apps running native on TVs as anything via hdmi is doa I think.
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Because Google Stadia was such a roaring success.