Thrustmaster has just yanked the tarp off its official T500 RS Gran Turismo 5 controller – and this 11.9kg wheel and pedal bundle will set you back a pretty cool $600. That’s about R4500. Yikes.
The wheel features 1080° rotation – that’s three full turns – as well as 65W of industrial motorised force feedback, 16-bit resolution and 65536 values on its steering axis. The gear shift levers, wheel spokes, and pedal set are made entirely of metal. At that price, I’m assuming the metal was mined on Saturn.
“The goal that I set for the Thrustmaster team was to design for me the most precise wheel ever developed, without any latency – to accurately reproduce the sensations of GT5, and let users truly feel the emotions experienced by drivers on real racing circuits,” says Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi.
The controller is scheduled to ship out around January 2011. In the meantime, you can check out its product page on Thrustmaster’s website, and dream of all the stuff you’re never going to have.
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