There is no rechargeable battery-you have to use AA batteries, at least for now. I’m hoping they’ll work themselves looser with time, but it’s almost an effort to press them in right now. It feels like an Xbox One controller, which is great, but it has overly stiff buttons. In fact, I don’t see how it wouldn’t work, because the controller never connects to your device, but knows when you’re playing a game, ready to accept inputs for that game within seconds.
You can use your Amazon Luna controller on any device you have that can play Luna-at least, as far as I’ve tested. Once the controller is recognized on your device, the magic happens. To set up the Amazon Luna controller, you’ll first need to set it up in the app in a syncing process that feels a bit like Stadia, and a bit like syncing a controller wirelessly to a console. The Amazon Luna controller, however, is seamless. It’s not a seamless process, and it fails often enough that’s it’s annoying.
#Contra returns controller code
After the device sees your controller, you have to enter in a code by pushing buttons on the controller-then, after a few seconds of thinking (and syncing?) you are able to use the controller. You can sync it to the app, or to a Chromecast set up to play Stadia games. When you want to set up a controller to work with Google Stadia, your choices are limited. I’m not sure the technical specifications behind this, I just know that it works a lot better than I could ever expect. It doesn’t connect to the device you’re playing the game on, so it removes a point of lag, and claims to directly connect to the game you’re playing. The controller for Amazon Luna sounded gimmicky: it directly connected to wi-fi, and directly to the games you want to play. Its visuals seemed a little crisper than Stadia’s upon testing, and titles loaded a little quicker, but it wasn’t a night and day difference-that is, until I used Amazon’s wireless enabled controller. No one single cloud gaming service feels like a huge improvement over the other. That’s why Amazon’s Luna was just another curiosity to me-I didn’t think it could possibly compete, or at least outdo Stadia or its other cloud based competition-I was wrong.Īs cloud based gaming platforms go, Luna stands about shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest.
While Stadia’s performance was certainly impressive around the time of its debut, in action, it just hasn’t manifested as a service that is on par with playing games on actual hardware. Google’s cloud gaming service just hasn’t attracted my attention. I requested early access to Amazon’s Luna cloud based video game platform and I got it, thinking that Luna would be, at best, on par with Google Stadia-but the results were a little surprising.įirst of all, I haven’t spent much time on Stadia over the last year since my review. That’s why, perhaps, I’m not seeing a ton of coverage on Amazon Luna and its accompanying controller. With the new console generation quickly approaching, cloud gaming isn’t the biggest attention-getter.
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