Microsoft Wireless Racing on Sale @ Amazon...

 

You and me, fella, you and me.  Saying that, last time it was you and me in the same boat, I left the boat and bought my PS3 with a haste that would have given less secure men quite a complex.  This time, though, I'll not be jumping ship.

 

The last console game I played with a wheel was Gran Turismo 3, and though it was certainly more immersive and fun I wasn't any faster with it.  I do own a wheel, a Logitech G25, that I use for my PC sim racing and swear by, but that's for NR2003, rFactor, GPL...games where it's just impossible to be competitive without a wheel.  Your observation that wheels don't help your performance all that much, Web, is one I would tend to agree with; there's no scope for making a console racer that would only allow players to be truly competitive if they used a wheel, because how many of us would buy it?  That being so, I've always believed the limiting factor that governs your speed on console is more likely to be your skill level, not your peripheral.

 

Not that I'm wanting to piss in anyone's punch bowl, you understand.  There's no doubt that racing with a wheel is more fun and more convincing than tilting a stick left and right, and from my very brief go with the Microsoft wheel it seems a very, very good piece of kit, but at the price I couldn't justify it to myself.  If someone bought me one, though...well, that's a wholly different thing.