Amazon Introduces its Prime Gaming Services in India

Amazon has entered surprisingly in the gaming industry with the launch of prime gaming services in India. It came quietly and has debuted with subscription service in the country. 

A variety of mobile, PC, and Mac games will be available to subscribers of the gaming service, which will be included with Amazon Prime. In addition, users will have access to in-game items like weapons, characters, skins, boosts, and upgrades.

According to the website's information, the service currently offers games like Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0, FIFA 23, League of Legends, and DeathLoop are just a few examples.

It's interesting to note that the service's launch comes just a few weeks after it was first reported that the company wanted to launch it in the country. It was reported at the time that the service's webpage was live in the country; however, as users logged in to check, the platform went offline.

 Although it was inevitable, the gaming service has finally arrived in India. In addition, the launch comes two years after Amazon launched its Indian mobile gaming service, which primarily offered free in-game content like collectible characters and upgrades.

The e-commerce giant's decision to launch its gaming platform in the country comes at a turbulent time. In the past few weeks, Amazon has already shut down as many as three verticals. The country's wholesale e-commerce, pilot food delivery service, and edtech platform have all been shut down by the startup.

Eye on Gaming Space The tech giant is consolidating its operations and trying to get a piece of the expanding Indian gaming market with the India launch. With enormous assets and titles as of now available to its, the move could empower Amazon to increase rapidly in the Indian market and get a lump of the space.

The announcement by Amazon comes just a few weeks after the JioGames app's beta version of the company's new cloud gaming platform, JioGamesCloud, was made available by the oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Jio.

Prime subscribers can use the gaming service, which costs approximately Rs 1,499 per year for a package.