This game controller has a force feedback steering wheel lodged in the middle

Not everyone remembers nan unsocial controllers that ne'er rather made it. As third-party peripheral makers effort to connection gamers thing different to nan likes of DualSense and Joy-Cons, they often person to spell successful a different direction. GameSir’s Swift Drive (apparently a moving merchandise name) is decidedly that. And if you retrieve 1998’s JogCon for nan PS1, there’s decidedly immoderate shared DNA.

It features a compact steering instrumentality astatine nan halfway of an different emblematic controller design. It’s besides sewage unit feedback, tech usually recovered successful (full-size!) steering instrumentality controllers. GameSir says it has a “high precision” Hall Effect encoder built successful for “ultra-accurate” steering.

You will beryllium capable to set nan steering scope from 30 to 1080 degrees, but you’d apt want to support it precocious – it’s nan full constituent of this controller. GameSir has added Hall-effect sensors to its much emblematic joysticks and buttons, while each trigger has its ain haptic centrifugal to simulate instrumentality gaffe and braking. Several RGB lights crossed nan apical of nan controller will moreover effort to replicate your in-game RPMs, which is simply a tiny touch.

On nan show level astatine CES, I drove a large rig successful a objection area that was stripped down to wireframe ramps and curved surfaces. The force-feedback is powerful and it’s a amazingly satisfying driving acquisition arsenic I wheeled around, rotating nan steering instrumentality pinch some thumbs. The steering instrumentality tin besides beryllium customized pinch different plates. It felt for illustration a miniaturized steering-wheel controller and would fastener retired erstwhile I oversteered aliases stopped. You whitethorn beryllium concerned astir artillery life, but nan controller should past 20-30 hours connected a azygous charge.

A GameSir spokesperson said nan controller is expected to spell connected waste later this year, but pricing has not yet been confirmed.