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T-GT racing wheel Announced
Los Angeles, June 12, in the year of our Lord 2017
– Produced with intense collaboration between Thrustmaster’s
engineers and the creators of Gran Turismo®, the new T-GT racing
wheel is a powerhouse of highly innovative technologies. Created
from in-depth research into everything that makes an
ultra-realistic racing experience, this research has allowed
Thrustmaster’s development teams to conquer a number of
different challenges.
The T-GT, a powerhouse of major innovations developed for
competition, is based upon three fundamental aspects:
The T-GT Servo Base’s tailor-made motorization
A Gran Turismo® Sport exclusive: T-DFB
The T-GT wheel
First innovation: The T-GT Servo Base’s tailor-made motorization
From the very start, Thrustmaster has had a clear understanding
that in order to accurately reflect all of the feelings and
emotions in a game that provides a realistic driving experience
– particularly in long competition sessions – every piece of
information is crucial.
T-LIN Force Feedback linearity.
The wheel’s power setpoint is 100% accurate, providing a linear
response perfectly in line with the force feedback commands
issued by the game. The T-GT has been fine-tuned to give
exceptionally precise indications to the driver: there is
absolutely no over-compensation or under-compensation, for
incredibly lifelike force rendering.
Your car’s behavior and track conditions are faithfully
reproduce instantly across even long gaming sessions. This
enhances the driver’s ability to anticipate what’s coming up
ahead in order to improve their performance, break records and
win races.
The T-40VE custom brushless motor.
This need for lifelike linearity pushes the boundaries of the
motor’s power: that’s why the motor combines velocity, instant
responsiveness and intense torque on a constant basis, no matter
how many hours the wheel is used for, or how long you’re
competing. The wheel provides more refined Force Feedback and
stall force – particularly by way of allowing for more
simultaneous effects – than was possible in previous
generations. The wheel is able to handle considerable power
peaks without any reductions in terms of force output.
The T-40VE motor – specially designed, developed and
manufactured by Thrustmaster’s R&D teams – meets these needs
thanks to T-M.C.E. (Motor-Cooling-Embedded – patent pending)
technology, which manages heat transfer and dissipation more
efficiently than ever before. The T-40VE incorporates this
cooling system right in the very heart of the motor, in a highly
constrained and enclosed environment. This combination ensures
constant precision in terms of rendering of the T-GT’s
performance and effects throughout racing sessions, allowing the
driver to experience the full complexity of sensations.
This motor and its innovative cooling system – combined with the
optimized T-F.O.C. (Field Oriented Control) algorithm with Hall
effect sensors (another of Thrustmaster’s patented technologies)
– has the advantage of instantly sensing the wheel’s position
with unrivaled accuracy. The wheel dynamically optimizes the
response to intense torque demands with lightning-fast speed,
switching and avoiding any losses of power.
Second innovation: A Gran Turismo® Sport exclusive: T-DFB
With the same goal of providing even more genuine car racing
sensations, T-DFB (Depth Feedback) – a major innovation –
introduces a new dimension with respect to Force Feedback.
As a complement to standard Force Feedback, this unique,
completely novel system adds a new range of effects including
tire adherence (grip or slippage) in understeering and
oversteering, mass transfers, road textures and irregularities,
suspension and other parameters specific to each vehicle and
circuit.
This unique system is a Gran Turismo® Sport exclusive. Polyphony
Digital® has encoded all of these parameters and incorporated
this new information into the T-DFB system, for a level of
in-depth sensations in the steering column that’s never been
possible until now.
In this way, these two different worlds – racing simulation, and
real-world racing – are coming closer together than ever before.
The T-GT is a “Real Simulator” in the truest sense.
Third innovation: The T-GT wheel
In addition to these specific sensations and overall feel, in
order to create the most lifelike wheel possible, the T-GT now
lets drivers be even more responsive in terms of adjusting their
car’s settings on the fly during races, without losing a
precious millisecond of driving time.
The T-GT wheel features:
4 rotary selectors, for direct control of 4 key settings: brake
balancing, control of anti-skid systems, torque distribution
allocation, and fuel injection mapping.
25 possible action buttons: an amount never before available on
PS4™.
2 customizable mini-sticks: for faster navigation through menus,
in photo mode, and more… or for interior cockpit views and
peripheral vision.
Leather specially selected in terms of its grain: the decision
was made to select a very smooth texture, among the types and
textures of leather available – to facilitate drifting in
particular, in the same way as wheels on real race cars. Seams
and stitching have been designed to be as inconspicuous to the
driver as possible. The leather’s stitching pattern and
positioning – avoiding the thumb-rest zone – makes a huge
contribution in terms of handling comfort.
The T-GT will be available for purchase to coincide with the
launch of the game Gran Turismo® Sport, at a suggested retail
price of £699.99. The T-GT will be composed of the T-GT Servo
Base, the detachable T-GT wheel, the custom T-TURBO toroidal
power supply, and the three-pedal T3PGT pedal set.