{"id":9141,"date":"2010-12-24T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"thrustmaster-reveals-us-600-gran-turismo-5-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9141-thrustmaster-reveals-us-600-gran-turismo-5-controller","title":{"rendered":"Thrustmaster reveals US$600 Gran Turismo 5 controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thrustmaster has just yanked the tarp off its official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrustmaster.com\/product.aspx?ProductID=224&amp;PlatformID=12\" target=\"_blank\">T500 RS Gran Turismo 5 controller<\/a> &ndash; and this 11.9kg wheel and pedal bundle will set you back a pretty cool $600. That&rsquo;s about R4500. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>The wheel features 1080&deg; rotation &ndash; that&rsquo;s three full turns &ndash; 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&rsquo;m assuming the metal was mined on Saturn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal that I set for the Thrustmaster team was to design for me the most precise wheel ever developed, without any latency &ndash; to accurately reproduce the sensations of GT5, and let users truly feel the emotions experienced by drivers on real racing circuits,&#8221; says Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi.<\/p>\n<p>The controller is scheduled to ship out around January 2011. In the meantime, you can check out its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrustmaster.com\/product.aspx?ProductID=224&amp;PlatformID=12\" target=\"_blank\">product page<\/a> on Thrustmaster&rsquo;s website, and dream of all the stuff you&rsquo;re never going to have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10191-US-600-Gran-Turismo-5-controller-revealed-Thrustmaster-T500-RS\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Thrustmaster reveals US$600 Gran Turismo 5 controller\"><strong>Thrustmaster reveals US$600 Gran Turismo 5 controller<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um. Yeah. If you love racing sims, US$600 isn&#039;t too much to ask, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}