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Thrustmaster is an American designer, developer and manufacturer of joysticks, game controllers, and steering wheels for PCs and video gaming consoles. It has licensing agreements with third party brands as Airbus, Boeing, Ferrari, Gran Turismo and U.S. Air Force as well as licensing some products under Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox licenses.
The Logitech G27 is a racing wheel made by Logitech.It supports PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 Xbox 360 and PC.It replaced the Logitech G25 in 2010, with some new features including the use of helical gearing instead of the previous straight gears used on the G25. [1]
The wheel was released on December 13, 2007. Developed in conjunction with Polyphony Digital , first introduced at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show , and intended for use with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue , Gran Turismo 5 , and all PlayStation 3 auto racing games, the Driving Force GT is the fifth entry in the company's Driving Force series of game ...
The Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel was released by Microsoft on September 26, 2011. It is a successor to the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel and features a directional pad, the four colored action buttons and two triggers also found on the standard Xbox 360 controller .
Its much smaller wheel (diameter roughly similar to a soda can's) resembles the jog-and-shuttle control wheel used on some VCRs. The Wii game Mario Kart Wii is bundled with the Wii Wheel: a steering wheel-shaped shell that the Wii Remote is placed inside thus using the Wii Remote's motion sensing capabilities to control the kart during
The Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel was discontinued in 2007 when the price of the wheel was dropped to $99. It no longer seemed to be supplied to stores, and Microsoft had removed mention of it from the official Xbox web site. The successor, the Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel was released on September 26, 2011. [5]
It was a simple two button, three axis joystick. It featured a trigger button, a thumb button and a throttle wheel on left side of the base. In addition it had two additional dials on the base for adjustment of the stick itself, one above stick and the other to the right of the stick. It used a gameport connector to interface with the computer.
In a direct drive simracing steering wheel system, the wheelbase and the wheel rim are typically separate, so that is possible to switch between rims according to the use case, for instance formula wheelrims, GT wheelrims, oval racing or truck wheel rims. The base and the rim are typically connected through a quick release system.