Thrustmaster T500RS - the official peripheral of Gran Turismo?

Thrustmaster secures license for Gran Turismo franchise - builds a wheel of doom.

@anthony256

Published Dec 5, 2010 6:20 PM CST
Updated Nov 3, 2020 12:32 PM CST

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Gran Turismo 5 is finally out, but it has strangely been absent without a high end 'official' steering wheel to go along with it. For a very long time now Logitech has had the pleasure of building wheels that carried the Gran Turismo branding until now?

Thrustmaster T500RS - the official peripheral of Gran Turismo? | TweakTown.com

Thrustmaster seems to have secured the license for the GT franchise now and is building a wheel called the T500RS as pictured above. The T500RS promises unrivaled accuracy and seems to sport some form of magnetic sensor technology which Thrustmaster used in their HOTAS Warthog controller.

Pricing is just a rumor at the moment with that rumor being $500 MSRP without the official H-pattern shifter.

More info is said to be unveiled at CES.

NEWS SOURCE:engadget.com

Anthony Garreffa

Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.