amazon luna review

Today we're going to be taking a look at a new game streaming service directly from amazon called luna i've always referred to it as project luna but i'm pretty sure they never said anything about project luna.

It's invite only you do have to request to access to it and it's seven bucks a month for the base setup now what i have here is actually the amazon fire stick light which was recently on sale for 18 but luna also works on windows ,mac, android and ios, i've also picked up the luna controller which can only be bought if you're accepted into the beta personally i love the look of this thing it connects over bluetooth wi-fi or usb it's also compatible with alexa does have a microphone built in and the 3.5 millimeter audio jack so you can do sound out through your headphones on the controller itself so let's go ahead and get this thing out of the box now if you're not familiar with streaming services basically just think stadia or xcloud.

This is nothing like geforce now because geforce now allows you to play games that you already own on steam and other platforms this basically has pre-loaded games up on their server and you can stream them to basically any device so straight off the bat i like the way it feels it's got a lot of heft to it takes two double a batteries and i believe they include them in the box uh analog sticks are great i love the coloring here i'm a big fan of purple buttons feel awesome there's not a lot of travel on the triggers but i can definitely get used to it it definitely looks like their older amazon controller and unfortunately that wasn't even bluetooth but this one does connect over bluetooth usb and wi-fi so you can connect this to pretty much any device and it definitely has kind of a switch pro controller feel to it and just as i thought this little home button here has that circle led around it i think it looks great and definitely feels premium.


But right now it's 5.99 for luna plus unlimited hours of play you can stream on two devices up to 1080p 60fps and 4k is coming soon but right now since it's in beta there's only 51 games to choose from but amazon has promised over hundred games with the official launch so we will be seeing more games come to luna but it's also compatible with ubisoft plus and this is 14.99 a month but you can stream games on luna from ubisoft plus i'm not sure if the whole ubisoft library is there but they do have watchdogs legion they have valhalla the new phoenix rising game and a few older ubisoft games are available on luna but you have to pay that extra 14.99 a month and in my opinion i just i don't think it's worth it right now


So i'm just going to go ahead and start this up and it's going to bring us right into the library and by the way these fire sticks do have ac wi-fi built in i am connected to my wi-fi 6 router but when it comes to game streaming i personally prefer using ethernet unfortunately without an adapter on the fire stick we just don't have access to ethernet most people will want to do this wirelessly so that's the first test i'm going to be running so here we are in the luna app like i mentioned right now in beta there's 51 games to choose from and to tell you the truth there's not a lot of stuff that i really want to play here i will leave a link to the initial game list in the description but this will be updated as soon as it comes out of beta they're promising over 100 games .


so i hope to see some really good stuff but we do have metro exodus control sonic mania grid i mean kind of the basic stuff that these game streaming apps do have included with most of them and like i mentioned you can also gain access to ubisoft plus so you'll get some newer games like assassin's creed valhalla phoenix rising watchdogs legion and some of the older stuff like the crew far cry 5 new dawn and games like that but at 15 dollars a month personally I'm probably not gonna be picking up this subscription okay so like i mentioned i connected the luna controller to my fire stick over bluetooth and that's really just to navigate the whole interface itself in order to get the best performance out of luna you will need to connect this to wi-fi.