MOZA brings its first officially licensed wheels to PS5

What has MOZA actually announced?

MOZA Racing has brought its direct-drive racing hardware to the PlayStation 5 for the first time, unveiling three officially licensed products on its stand at Tokyo Game Show 2026. The line-up is the R5S Pro Racing Simulator, the R16S Ultra Racing Simulator and the R16S Ultra Direct Drive Wheel Base, and MOZA says all three will work with Sony's console.

It is the first officially licensed PlayStation hardware from a company that built its reputation on PC sim rigs, which makes it a bigger deal than another wheel with a nicer rim. Console racing wheels only exist if Sony says they can, and MOZA has just been let through the door.

Three wheels, three very different buyers

The R5S Pro is the all-in-one option: wheel base, steering wheel and pedals in a single package, aimed at anyone who wants a complete rig rather than a project. The R16S Ultra Racing Simulator pairs the R16S wheel base with a matching steering wheel for racers who want more force feedback and more metal. The R16S Ultra Direct Drive Wheel Base is sold on its own, so existing MOZA owners can build around a wheel they already own.

Direct drive, in plain English, means the motor is bolted straight to the wheel with no belts or gears in between. That is why these wheels kick back hard and fast enough to feel like a car rather than a toy, and it is the technology that turned sim racing from a curiosity into a hobby with a waiting list.

The Gran Turismo 7 part is the interesting bit

MOZA also says it has started working with Polyphony Digital, the Sony-owned studio behind Gran Turismo, on a racing wheel controller with native support for Gran Turismo 7. Native is the word that matters. A wheel that speaks a game's own force-feedback protocol can be tuned to it directly, instead of impersonating another manufacturer's device and hoping the game plays along.

At launch the PS5 line-up will support Gran Turismo 7 and, in MOZA's words, a growing selection of compatible racing titles. That is the sort of phrase that means the launch list is short and everybody involved knows it. Expect the racing games you would name first, and not much else.

No price, no date, and one caveat worth reading

MOZA has not said what any of this costs, when it goes on sale, or in which countries. The company says pricing, availability and an official launch date will be announced at a later stage, which is the standard way of saying the products are nearly ready and the commercial paperwork is not.

There is also a caveat in the small print. The three products are developed under PlayStation's official licensing programme and will work with PS5 subject to Sony Interactive Entertainment's final product approval. Until that approval lands, treat this as an announced line-up rather than a confirmed one.

Who is MOZA, and why does a console matter?

MOZA Racing was founded in 2015 by automotive engineers and sim racing enthusiasts, and has spent the years since selling the hobby's most hardware-obsessed customers on flat-wire motors, an active pedal and an active shifter. The company says it now serves more than 3 million customers in over 100 countries.

Console support was the obvious gap in that story. A PlayStation under the television is a far more common sight in European homes than a dedicated triple-screen PC rig, and it is the machine most people actually own. Selling a 16-newton-metre wheel base to somebody who has never opened a PC case is a much larger market than selling one to the people who argue about motor smoothness on forums.

Our opinion

The headline is the PlayStation badge, but the sentence that should prick up ears is the one about Polyphony Digital. Slinging a PlayStation logo onto a PC wheel is a licensing exercise. Building a wheel with native Gran Turismo support alongside the studio that makes Gran Turismo is a relationship, and relationships are harder to copy than product lines. If that collaboration produces a wheel that talks to Gran Turismo 7 properly, MOZA has bought itself the one thing no amount of spec-sheet flexing can buy: a reason to be the default choice on Sony's console.

The strategy is not subtle. On a PC you can mix a wheel base from one brand, pedals from another and a shifter from a third, which keeps the market competitive and the upgrade path messy. On a console you pick an ecosystem and live in it, because that is what the licensing model encourages. MOZA wants to be that ecosystem for PS5 owners before somebody else claims the space, and it is using the strongest brand in racing games as the door.

What is missing is the only thing a buyer can act on: a price and a date. A Tokyo Game Show stand, three product names and a promise of further details is marketing for something that is plainly months away, and sim racing has a long history of hardware that was announced at a show and arrived a year later at a price nobody expected. There is also the small matter of that pending Sony approval, which is a formality right up until it is not.

Still, this is a real step rather than a render. MOZA has made its name by making expensive-feeling hardware at prices that undercut the establishment, and console sim racing has been quietly waiting for exactly that. If the GT7 wheel turns up at a sensible price, the biggest change will not be on the hardware side at all. It will be in how many people can finally afford to find out what all the fuss about force feedback was about.

Image: MOZA Racing.