Turtle Beach Launches New Xbox-Compatible Direct Drive Wheel Bundle, Available February

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Turtle Beach Launches New Xbox-Compatible Direct Drive Wheel Bundle, Available February​

Xbox and PC gamers have a new direct drive wheel option available soon, and from a rather unexpected source as peripheral manufacturer Turtle Beach has revealed its first ever racing wheel...

 

[Sinyster]

Well now this is quite a surprise. I don't think I'm personally going to be getting this but it'd be nice to be able to possibly test out one day if I could ever get my hands on one at a friend's place or something. Wishing TurtleBeach the best of luck with this!

 

[i386]

For a second I thought that's a logitech wheelbase with thrustmaster wheel and pedals...

 

[shoemaker]

And here we are still waiting for the Thrustmaster DD on Xbox and Turtle Beach come out of nowhere with a contender.TM really have been caught sleeping on this. More the better, maybe manufactures will take note and price more competitively, unfortunately iam knee deep in the TM eco system. Shame they atill haven’t announced the DD for xbox.

 

[BlackHGT]

Looks interesting. Especially
The integrated display and the button panel. The brake pedal also sounds interesting.

What surprises me is that there is no information about the strength of the force feedback.

What makes it a little less lucrative is the lack of an ecosystem like Fanatec, trustmaster or Moza.
And for me as a playstation and xbox player, the playstation support is missing.

 

[Reeneman]

More competition is always good. Price seem to be a bit high on the very first view.
Curious to see reviews.

 

[Force-Feedback]

Wowzers, it's not even April 1st yet!

The button box and small dash screen is an interesting inclusion and raises eyebrows for us who do other pc games like truck simulators and whatnot.

Already spent a small fortune on my setup so will probably miss this but as people have said, more competition is good for us consumers!

 

[Wilko82Gaming]

Looks interesting. Especially
The integrated display and the button panel. The brake pedal also sounds interesting.

What surprises me is that there is no information about the strength of the force feedback.

What makes it a little less lucrative is the lack of an ecosystem like Fanatec, trustmaster or Moza.
And for me as a playstation and xbox player, the playstation support is missing.

I would imagine it's gonna be on par with the 5nm dd from fanatec

 

[Zero7159]

Very cool, good to see another company getting into DD wheels and load cell pedals.

 

[Mr Grumpy]

7.2nm apparently

 

[Famine]

7.2nm apparently

Hmm. I asked TB at the time about this and I got this as a response:

We have not announced the torque spec for the VelocityOne Race. Core attributes of an effective force feedback wheel design is not solely about theoretical output torque of a motor, other attributes include, physical geometry, friction, power management, safety, electro-mechanical design, force feedback algorithm design, customization options, and experienced engineering.

 

[Mr Grumpy]

Hmm. I asked TB at the time about this and I got this as a response:

It's specified in stores & online now, not sure if it's peak or constant though.

Still looks like a toy regardless.

 

[lancia delta hf]

Hmm. I asked TB at the time about this and I got this as a response:

I saw TB reply 7.2 in comments on their FB page.

 

[lancia delta hf]

 

[Watzlaw]

7nm is a deathbirth.