Q: About G923 compatibility... have I made a grave mistake?
I'm new to iRacing and due to shipping issues with my G29 wheel & pedals getting lost in transit last week, I saw that the G923 has been announced and will be shipping at earliest in late in August. Since the earliest that it could be replaced is in about another 10 days, I figured I might as well bite the bullet and get A 923 from Logitech directly as I was paying the already inflated ~ $380 after taxes for the one that was a no-show.
However, on closer examination (caveat emptor!) after cancelling my original order and just placing my G923 (PS4) order tonight and find that the new hotness doesn't have iRacing listed as a compatible wheel set while the G29 does. I assume that is due to it being so new and not necessarily being fully tested and supported by iRacing but I think in principal it should work sufficiently, right? Maybe just with not all the bells and whistles at first - and I'm OK with that. I'm still very much an novice and this will be my first wheel purchase. To this point I've only run AI races and skid pad with an xBox controller for the last week due to the wheel delay as I don't want to ruin my pristine 2.5 safety rating until I get a wheel and do it my own damn self under ideal circumstances.
Am I worrying about nothing?
Posted Aug 7, 2020, 7:57 AM UTC
I'm only speculating here, but looking purely at the specs of the wheel, it appears to be a G29 with whatever tweaks are needed to make it compatible with the PS5. The only new feature is this programmable dual clutch thing so that's the only bit I'd think may not work with iRacing, but that's not an issue, just don't use it! For some reason, each new Playstation console requires Logitech to make a "new" wheel in order for it to be fully compatible. I don't know if this is to do with firmware, or some deliberate game being played between Logitech and Sony to convince GT fans to buy a new wheel with each console generation. Possible a mix of both.
I'd be surprised if this affected its compatibility with PC games though. Every Logitech wheel in the G series so far works perfectly with iRacing so I can't see why the G923 would be any different expecially when it appears to be quite literally the G29 with some different colours and this programmable dual clutch thing.
I reckon you'll be fine.
Regarding the "new for each generation" thing - one thing I do know about the PS4 is that it's supposed to be two systems in one - there is a low-level controller that is seperate from the processing / graphics engine for the actual gameplay engine. That's how they worked in things like low power mode downloads, and system updates apparently. I saw an interesting conference video where they were able to reverse-engineer a way to control that module to allow them to boot into Linux on the PS4 (At least until it got patched by Sony). This separation of low and high level functions may explain why each one needs to be refreshed.
Or Sony could be just an evil, giant corporation that wants to get the licensing fees on your hardware a second time... but they wouldn't do anything evil like that, would they? /s
That's really interesting, love learning little tidbits like that!
Sony? Be a money grubbing massive multinational corporation? Surely not!
This is the video if you would like to see it.
Cheers man! Something to distract me from work, just what I wanted hah.