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Post by tomlory on Sept 20, 2022 3:57:46 GMT
Official "reveal" is scheduled for November 17 07:00 PST on Twitch TV: www.twitch.tv/tmthrustmasterI theorize that Thrustmaster needed to give us something concrete ahead of Fanatec's Black Friday Sale in hopes of avoiding losing sales to Fanatec. I'll be so disappointed if the new gear that I want isn't readily available ahead of Christmas 2022. |
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Post by tomlory on Oct 28, 2022 0:42:15 GMT
Facts and history toward educated speculation about the upcoming Thrustmaster DD wheel:
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Post by tomlory on Nov 17, 2022 8:15:26 GMT
Less than 7 hours to the "reveal".
I see three probable paths: unveiling, in stock and ready to ship, independent reviews already produced, like Logitech did, "available sometime early 2023" because of some customer minded reasons or available now for pre-order (Fanatec style).
I was thinking that the shit quick release and need for backward compatibility would doom whatever TM comes out but Nov 17 was worth waiting for for me (well, sorta, I did order the Logitech G Pro but that won't cost me anything to send back if I can't cancel the order before it ships).
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Post by tomlory on Nov 17, 2022 15:49:01 GMT
Thrustmaster T818
10 Nm
$650
plastic QR and drive hub compatible with existing TM wheels
available for pre-order now
expected to start shipping 2023 March
From what the general public know at this point, if you don't already own a variety of Thrustmaster wheels, there's no compelling reason to buy this.
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Post by tomlory on Nov 17, 2022 19:12:51 GMT
The Twitch show was too much of a dragged out infomercial with paid endorsements for me to watch past the ~15 minute mark but I found it funny that as soon as one of the engineers was telling us how much effort was put into reducing the inertia, for fast response and fidelity, with a graphic for torque / mass = angular velocity I went straight to it being an excuse of a justification for the plastic QR whose ~2" diameter has a negligible impact. The truth I believe is that the motor side QR hub is plastic to get along with the wheel side plastic hub.
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