While many people saw Microsoft’s new wireless racing wheel peripheral and questioned its design (a “double-ended dildo for cyborgs”, as one commenter put it), Microsoft has just announced Australian price and, full kudos to Redmond, Australia isn’t actually getting screwed.
The $US60 peripheral will ship to retailers from September 26, and will have an Australian RRP of… $59.95, or the same figure as the US market. Even factoring in the exchange rate and GST, it seems that for once Australia is on the receiving end of a good deal.
The bigger picture here is that if Microsoft can do it, why the hell can’t everyone else?
Glenn
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 12:32 PMThat is awesome, hopefully it’s like that more often now.
Still not going to buy it, but it’s a good start.
GT
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 12:32 PMAs a hardcore driving/racing sim player, I can’t bring myself to use something like this. What about pedals?
tropolite
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 12:38 PMThe pricing is possibly an apology to Australia for the continual delay in Voice Recognition for Kinect…
Where the hell is it and why aren’t we able to get any information on its release.
Greg
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 12:54 PMWell… @xboxaustralia have just tweeted that we will get voice recognition “before the end of the year”. So sometime in the next seven months we might get a service that finished testing last year and we were promised in the first quarter of this year :/
However some are suggesting that you just change your regional setting to US and it will work now. (don’t have a kinect yet so can’t test myself)
glennc
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 1:20 PMthis has to be a first… same RRP as the US
good times ahead (maybe)
Raardvark
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 1:46 PMWell that’s a nice change.
How the hell does it work though? I thought I read somewhere that it ISN’T motion control, so without something to attach it to I don’t get how it works.
Mik
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 3:31 PMIf it uses gyroscopes, is it still considered motion control?
Ha
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 11:07 PMI just want some analog sticks!
How do I look around my car in Forza with this? :’(
Matt L
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 10:59 AMKinect maybe? I’d say they finally realized that holding your hands up and doing the hand jive may steer the car, but doesn’t move it forward..