Fortnite's quest for total world domination continues as the game has arrived on yet another platform – the Amazon Luna cloud streaming service.
Amazon Prime subscribers can finally hop on the Battle Bus as Fortnite arrives on the Amazon Luna service today. It's the prefect time given that the Find the Force event has just launched, bringing Star Wars content to the game as a part of Fortnite Update 24.30.
Fortnite Amazon Luna players will be able to learn the ways of the force by finding Jedi and Sith masters, or channelling their inner Clone Trooper by finding the Republic Chests. Not to mention there's still time to complete the Eren Jaeger quests included in the Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 2 Battle Pass.
The Fortnite Amazon Luna launch marks the third cloud streaming service offering Fortnite, with Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce Now offering full crossplay with players on PC, Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation platforms. However, the kicker is while Fortnite on Amazon Luna is free of charge for Amazon Prime subscribers, you'll need to pay for that Amazon Prime subscription in the first place.
Meanwhile streaming the game is free on Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce Now without the need for a paid Xbox Game Pass or a GeForce Now subscription – not to mention the game is free to play on every console and Android phones as is, sadly making this one of the worst deals for Fortnite unless you're already paying for an Amazon Prime subscription.
Up in a cloud
I for one don't really see the appeal in playing a competitive online game through a cloud streaming service. While the technology has gotten better to a point where I'm more than happy to stream a single-player game through Xbox Game Pass without the need to download it, but the idea of dealing with the inherent delay of cloud gaming on top of any connection issues in a game reliant of fast reactions.
Have you seen how fast those infants can build in game?! It just sounds like a bit of a miserable time for anyone.
Then again, not everyone can afford to shell out hundreds on a console and cloud streaming offers a cheap and easy way to play the biggest game in the world. But then why go with the version that costs money to play when Xbox and Nvidia offer better options free of charge?
I don't know who the Fortnite Amazon Luna release is targeting but between last-gen and current-gen consoles being fairly commonplace, as well as Android phones, it'll be interesting to see if the launch gains any traction on the platform.
