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Xbox 360 Joytech Nitro Racing Wheel | 
 enlarge | From: Joytech
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $89.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 16020
Platform: Xbox 360
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10
Dimensions (in): 13.6 x 13.2 x 11.1
UPC: 778399881011
EAN: 0778399881011
ASIN: B000EOJ6DY
Release Date: May 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Backlit Xbox Guide button | | • | Xbox Live enabled | | • | Four wheel-mounted paddle shifters | | • | Stick shift | | • | LED display |
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Product Description
The Nitro Racing Wheel for Xbox 360 makes it possible to control your car like a racing pro. All your favorite racing games just became more realistic, with full shifting and pedal action. It's also got force feedback, letting you feel every scrape and crash. Full rubber grips Dual vibration feedback motors Foot pedals included
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| Customer Reviews:
Mad Catz More user friendly; But Still a Great Buy May 12, 2006
50 out of 54 found this review helpful
The steering wheel is described on Joytech's website as having 'precise' control. They weren't kidding. It is a little too precise, and there seems to be no way of adjusting the sensitivity.
This is not a huge issue when using the steering wheel with a racing simulator like Forza Motorsport(which is playable on the 360), since the quick response comes in handy especially when driving over 125mph. The steering wheel however requires very careful and gentle hands when taking PG3 for a test drive. Since Project Gotham's physics are a bit more arcade-like, the sensitivity tends to make the car oversteer at even the slightest turns, sending you headlong into a wall, when all you wanted to do was cut off the car in front of you. This is even more exagerrated when using any rear wheel driven vehicles (which is just about all of them).
The Mad Catz Model has onboard sensitivity controls which allow you to adjust the long and the short end steering response. This in itself makes it a more comfortable choice. Its larger size also makes it more comfortable if you chose to play from your lap. However, if you prefer using a table, I feel the Joytech is better suited for this.
The Joytech is however an excellent choice if you plan on pluging it in to your PC. Since you can then make sensitivity adjustments, using your Windows controller profile settings. I have used it in a real Rally simulator and it excels.
It really is a good wheel, but comes up short in some features (and gives you others that you don't need, like a chronograph built into the wheel). Add this to the fact that Joytech's website is lacking greatly in the way of support for their products, and you have a product that is really only useful if you have the time to learn how to drive differently on each game you own.
I hope that Joytech will update this model and address some of these concerns in the future.
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