Amazon now enables you to purchase video games on Luna — however solely Ubisoft ones

Amazon now affords the power to purchase video games on its Luna cloud gaming service, however the brand new characteristic comes with a giant catch: no less than for now, you’ll solely have the ability to purchase choose Ubisoft titles.

For me, Amazon was promoting video games you should buy proper on the primary Luna homepage, together with the just-released Murderer’s Creed Mirage. Nevertheless, if you find yourself shopping for an Ubisoft recreation on Luna, you’ll want an Amazon Prime or a Luna Plus subscription to have the ability to stream that bought recreation, based on an Amazon weblog put up concerning the characteristic.

The power to purchase video games is all nicely and good by itself; beforehand, you possibly can solely play video games on Luna by subscribing to particular channels of content material, accessing a rotating set of video games out there to Amazon Prime subscribers, or taking part in Ubisoft video games you already owned for PC on the cloud gaming service. In response to Amazon, you’ll have the ability to play the Ubisoft video games you purchase by Luna offline in your PC, too.

However Amazon’s announcement concerning the new characteristic hints on the risk that you simply would possibly have the ability to play these bought Ubisoft video games on different cloud providers as nicely. Right here’s the road in query from Amazon’s weblog put up and with my emphasis:

When prospects buy by Luna, they personal the sport license, and they’ll have the ability to play on Luna or obtain for offline play by way of the Ubisoft Join PC launcher.

Because you personal the sport license, it looks as if you possibly can have the ability to, say, purchase an Ubisoft recreation on Luna, stream it for a bit on Luna, after which choose up your progress by one other cloud gaming service like Nvidia’s GeForce Now. We’ve requested Nvidia, Ubisoft, and Amazon if that could be a risk, and we’ll replace you with what we hear. (With Ubisoft getting the cloud rights to Activision’s video games if the Microsoft and Activision merger closes, it appears attainable that might be to another attention-grabbing situations down the road.)

We’ve additionally requested Amazon if it plans to let prospects purchase and stream non-Ubisoft video games sooner or later sooner or later. Google provided the power to purchase video games on Stadia, its now-shuttered cloud service.