Amazon Shares Specified Luna Controller For Its Upcoming Streaming Platform

If you have been paying attention to the news circulating around Amazon today, you should be familiar with the announcement of Amazon’s video game streaming service, Luna. After being poked at in prior reports for the past year, the retailer giant finally unveiled the platform and spared some details regarding how this new ecosystem will operate on a selection of devices.

In that, Amazon presses that the service will be launching uniquely on Apple-owned iOS and Amazon’s line of Fire TV products. This is due to the game being processed in-browser rather than directly funneled through The App Store – also refraining Apple from collecting its 30 percent cut which is directly the reason Epic Games is currently in court with the firm.

But while users can enjoy Luna with any wireless, Bluetooth-compatible controller or even keyboard & mouse, Amazon is also offering a separate proprietary controller for users to purchase as well. As you could guess, the Luna Controller as it’s called will be launching the same day and offers unique features only associated with Amazon products.

“A high-performance controller designed to provide an ideal playing experience on Luna, Amazon’s new cloud gaming service. Luna Controller is the best connection between Luna gamers and their games,” the preview for the gamepad reads on its Amazon page.

One notable attribute that makes Luna especially unique is how the cloud technology works when bouncing from devices. When using the Luna controller, players who take the gamepad to another Luna-supported product can pick up right where they left off. However, this feature only looks to be unique to the controller and is suspected not to be available for other controllers available for use.

In addition to seamless device transitioning, the Luna Controller also includes Alexa voice commands as well. Alike with the Fire Stick Remote, users in possession of the controller can use the A.I. to command what games to play available for the service. As for the arrangement for the Luna Controller, it takes some inspiration from other peripherals.

The controller itself is structured similarly to the Xbox Series X controller with the sticks, buttons, and D-Pad all in the same positions. Even more, the share button is also sitting directly under the branded icon on the top portion of the controller. The grip and physique of the controller looks to take form from the Nintendo Switch Pro controller to some degree.

You can pre-order the Luna Controller on Amazon now for $49.99 by heading here. What are you most intrigued by the Luna Controller?

Luna is arriving in early access sometime next month for PC, Fire TV, iOS, and iPadOS.