g27 PS4 support rumors/news?

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I've googled and have been googling this abotu once a month since the PS4 release. I haven't found anything, but was wondering if anyone else has come across any news on this. Will PS4 even support a G27? I'm just hoping against hope, since I really don't have it in the budget to get a TS300 or anything like that.

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Not happening, get over it. Logitech wheels use a FFB system called Immersion that due to past legal issues SONY won't let near their consoles anymore.
 
Yeah I don't know why the T100 works but not Logi wheels, just knew it wasn't because of the Immersion FFB that Logi wheels aren't supported. Sony said ages ago that it was up to the peripheral makers to come up with drivers. Since TM are now Sony's official partner, I guess they pay enough to get support out of the box so to speak, whereas everyone else will have to make their own drivers. Fanatec has only recently been added to the PS4 Project CARS support list, so maybe there's still hope for Logitech in the future. I dunno.
 
Whatever else, Logitech would have to write FFB drivers for their wheels for the PS4. Until that is done there won't even be in game support for their wheels. Full console support requires the correct button layout and naming plus licensing, something which currently only exists on the T80 and T300.

State of play right now:
- full guaranteed support in menus and in all race games during PS4 lifespan: T300 http://ts.thrustmaster.com/eng/index.php?pg=view_files&gid=3&fid=15&pid=375&cid=12
- support in all announced racers so far, in game only: T500 http://ts.thrustmaster.com/eng/index.php?pg=view_files&gid=3&fid=15&pid=317&cid=12
- drivers embedded into pCARS: T100, all Fanatec wheels

Potentially the drivers available for the T500, T100 and Fanatec wheels can be embedded into all future PS4 racers. Thrustmaster seems to be busy ensuring the T500 is supported in everything, if you look at the game support link I posted above: I suspect that the T500 drivers are actually in the PS4 OS, since it uses identical drivers to the T300, and that's why game devs get T500 support effectively "for free" when they implement the T300.
Fanatec is no doubt trying to get as many game devs as possible to embed their drivers. Time will tell how that goes, especially with first party Sony devs in games like GT7 and any future Driveclub successor.

Logitech? They exited the console peripherals market at the end of 2013. No sign of any new products since then, just selling the DFGT and G27 with PS3 and PC support.
 
You don't have to write common OS drivers for a device to work. Games can support them without that, just by reading the device's raw input and doing stuff based on that. It's a lot more work for the game developers, of course.

For example dualshock 3 controllers can be made to work in RAW mode with PS2 emulators, enabling features that no windows DS3 drivers allow, such as analogue input for all buttons. This is only possible when the emulator interfaces directly with the controller, without going through any OS drivers and directinput/xinput stuff.
 
@select20 - There's already a thread for that here. People have been going round & round in circles with various opinions. See if you can cut through the speculation & find the handful of facts that exist over there.


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Thanks all. I hate it since I've been a fan of logitech stuff for a long time, especially PC stuff. I'm a bit OCD when it comes to things like that like if I have a Logitech mouse, and a Razer keyboard for example, it bugs the **** out of me. Has to all be the same. Wierd, I know, but I've learned to live with it my whole life. That OCD'ness isn't limited to PC stuff either.
 
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Thanks all. I hate it since I've been a fan of logitech stuff for a long time, especially PC stuff. I'm a bit OCD when it comes to things like that like if I have a Logitech mouse, and a Razer keyboard for example, it bugs the **** out of me. Has to all be the same. Wierd, I know, but I've learned to live with it my whole life. That OCD'ness isn't limited to PC stuff either.
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That isn't unusual, I know a few people like this. I even felt a little harmony in my lounge room when I upgraded my sound system to a Sony Muteki system, thus matching my Sony bravia TV and Sony ps3 lol.
 

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