Posts Tagged ‘logitech g25’

Logitech have been the market leader for quite sometime in the Gaming Seat environment, but with products from company’s like Fanatec, this lead is being challenged. If you’ve been in a VisionRacer or a Fanatec Cockpit gaming seat system with good speakers and a G25 – then you probably had a hard time getting out, purely because you were having so much fun! So can it get better? Whats this about the G27? What will competitors do? The G27 appears on many blogs my name, although its all the same base information with little detail. There’s nothing to substantiate the existentence of the G27 right now, other than a single picture that’s been sent all around the Internet. At the same time, Fanatec have a fantastic range of steering wheels too, which really compete with Logitech. What we do know is that the G27 has a thicker wheel, LED’s on the display for the gears (not really the rev counter as you may have read elsewhere). Even after two years, nothing materialised – did it take the iPhone that long…. the myth of the G27 is being challenged? Well, prototypes are around with partners of Logitech, but will the ‘alleged G27′ ever get past this stage? Logitech aren’t the only supplier, lets look other manufacturers such as Fanatec. With Fanatec, you have fantastic brand in ‘Porsche’ – and I’ve never met anyone who would say no Porsche! If we take the GT3 RS Wheel (available now!), it has the same design of the original Porsche 911 wheel and is hand stitched in leather (just like the Porsche). The Fanatec wheels have more focus on PC’s than PlayStations, but hey – we wont hold that against them! To get realistic road vibrations, the GT3 RS3 has feedback actuators built in – fantastic Fanatec. The advantage Fanatec have over the G25 is ABD vibration feedback – a nice touch! The pedals are aluminum with indestructible magnetic sensors (if anyone other than a German company said that, I probably wouldn’t believe them!). Oh – and don’t forget the 360 turn too!