Ubisoft has launched its own first-party cloud gaming offering. While they are starting small – with a trial for a single game, this has been something that we’ve been predicting for a long time here at Cloud Dosage.
Ubisoft is calling this current offering a technical preview. It is using AWS servers under the hood with A10 GPUs. Luna itself has started to use these GPUs in some games. There is no “Luna” branding in sight, though, and the offering doesn’t appear to support the Luna controller.
Thank you to friend of the site, @internetofgames, for the discovery and notification. You can watch his demo of the new cloud gaming offering in the YouTube video below. (Be sure to like and subscribe to his channel).
The service is starting small with a free trial of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. You can play for free right from a link in the Ubisoft Connect app on Windows – unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be a way (yet) to play from your Web Browser.
When you click the play now button, you are not taken to Amazon Luna or another existing cloud gaming offering, you are taken right into the game running on Ubisoft’s own servers.
Launching the game first looks for servers:
Then takes a minute to connect to the server:
The games stream at 1080p and look quite good and “feel” extremely responsive. In the video above, @internetofgames praises the low latency. Overall, the fidelity is probably comparable to Xbox Cloud Gaming but not quite as impressive as GeForce NOW’s Ultimate tier.
Ubisoft clearly went to a lot of trouble to develop this functionality. Cloud gaming functionality integrated into a PC game store doesn’t just pop out of thin air.
We expect this capability to grow over the upcoming months. It seems likely Ubisoft+ subscribers will eventually be able to play cloud games via Ubisoft’s own first party cloud gaming offering rather than using Amazon Luna or other third party services.
As always, remember to follow us on our social media (e.g., Threads, X (Twitter), YouTube and Facebook) to keep up with the latest news.
