Innovation

There are a lot of perks that come with an Amazon Prime subscription – free same-day and next-day delivery, a video streaming service, and Luna, Amazon’s cloud gaming service. In South Africa, we can't access Amazon Music or Prime Reading or cloud storage Photos or the Fresh grocery service, so it’s important to work out if the launch benefits are worth the R59-a-month membership. If you’re a gamer, Luna is an interesting addition because the cloud streaming option is not available in the country. What you’re getting instead is access to free

PC games, which refresh monthly, and a Twitch channel subscription. It’s downloadable digital content, similar to what Netflix offers for mobile. There’s a rotating list of games that you can access (some premium, like Red Dead Redemption, others weird show tie-ins) and they play without ads or microtransactions.