MOZA Reveals Three PlayStation Wheels: R5S Pro, R16S Ultra and a Standalone Base

MOZA Racing has revealed its first PlayStation hardware, and it is a fuller lineup than most of us expected. Three officially licensed direct drive products are coming to PS5: the R5S Pro Racing Simulator, the R16S Ultra Racing Simulator, and a standalone R16S Ultra wheel base. All three will be on the show floor when Tokyo Game Show opens today.

Every one of them supports Gran Turismo 7 natively from launch, which is the part that matters most. That comes out of the collaboration with Polyphony Digital first hinted at when MOZA was named an official Gran Turismo World Series partner in July.

Worth noting for anyone who read our piece on last week's teaser: the R5S Pro and R16S Ultra names that turned up in FCC regulatory filings back in July were exactly right. Those filings were the best clue anyone had, and they held up.

Three Ways In

Rather than launching with one product and seeing how it goes, MOZA is arriving with a range, and the names will be familiar to anyone who follows its PC hardware.

The R5S Pro Racing Simulator is the entry point, a complete bundle with base, wheel and pedals in the box for anyone who wants a full direct drive setup without assembling one piece by piece. The R16S Ultra Racing Simulator is the premium package, pairing the higher-torque R16S Ultra base with a steering wheel. And the R16S Ultra Direct Drive Wheel Base is the base on its own, aimed at people who already own MOZA rims and pedals or who would rather choose their own.

The "S" suffix is new and presumably marks these out as the Sony-licensed versions of existing hardware.

Here is the important caveat. On PC, the R5 bundle runs a 5.5Nm base and the R16 Ultra delivers 16Nm, but MOZA has not published torque figures for the PlayStation versions. It would be easy to assume the numbers carry across, and they may well do, but console licensing has forced compromises before. Wait for the spec sheets.

If those figures do hold, the R5S Pro lands squarely on top of the Fanatec GT DD Pro, which has been the default complete PlayStation direct drive recommendation for years. The R16S Ultra would sit at the top end alongside the GT DD Extreme and Logitech's G Pro.

The standalone base is the one existing MOZA owners should watch. The press release describes it as working with "the compatible MOZA steering wheel of your choice", which is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Whether that means every current rim or only a subset that has been through Sony's certification is unanswered, and it is the difference between a straightforward upgrade path and an expensive one.

Why Native Support Is the Real Story

The Polyphony connection is what separates this from an ordinary licensing deal, and it is worth explaining why that matters rather than just noting it.

Kazunori Yamauchi has said he wants the series to natively support more wheels, and when the partnership was announced he explained that MOZA had been on his radar for years because of its camera gimbals, which rely on the same precise motor control as a direct drive base.

The practical difference shows up in situations like the one we covered earlier this year, when FullForce arrived on the Gran Turismo DD Pro hardware but was not actually active inside GT7, a gap that took until update 1.71 in August to close. Hardware being compatible and hardware being properly integrated are two different things, and a wheel developed alongside the game rather than certified after the fact should avoid that entirely.

There is one thing neither MOZA nor Polyphony has clarified. Both describe a controller developed "in collaboration with Gran Turismo", but it is not clear whether that is one of the three products revealed today or a separate Gran Turismo-branded product still to come. Fanatec's GT DD Pro and GT DD Extreme both carry official Gran Turismo branding, and nothing in today's announcement mentions a GT logo on any of the new MOZA hardware. That absence feels deliberate.

What Is Still Missing

Quite a lot, and the gaps are the commercially important ones. No pricing, no availability, no launch date, all of which MOZA says will come "at a later stage". No confirmed torque figures for either base. No clarity on which existing rims work with the standalone base. And no name for the pedals in the R5S Pro bundle, though the set pictured looks to be based on the SR-P Lite2 two-pedal set.

Price is the one that will decide how this lands. A complete direct drive bundle undercutting the GT DD Pro would shift the console market properly. Priced level with it, MOZA is asking people to switch ecosystems on trust alone, which is a harder sell.

Final Thoughts

This is good news for anyone racing on PS5. Force feedback on Sony's console has been a three-company club for far too long, and that lack of competition has kept prices high and progress slow. A fourth manufacturer turning up with an entry bundle, a high-torque base and a direct line to Polyphony makes the next year genuinely interesting, whichever brand you end up buying.

What we cannot tell you yet is whether it is actually better. A press release and a show floor are not a review, and until we know torque figures, prices and how the force feedback actually feels through a GT7 lap, any comparison with the GT DD Pro is guesswork. We will put that right when hardware is available, because comparing it back to back with the Fanatec gear we already run is the only way to answer the question properly.

Tokyo Game Show runs from 17 to 21 September at Makuhari Messe, with public days from the 19th. We will update this as MOZA shares more.

Let us know whether a MOZA wheel would tempt you away from your current setup, and what price it would take.