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.

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

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

MOZA's PS5 debut is bigger than a single wheel, with an entry bundle, a premium package and a standalone base, all with native Gran Turismo 7 support from day one.

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