Logitech announces Speed Force Wireless for Wii

Maybe I didn't watch enough Reading Rainbow as a kid, but whenever I pick up Nintendo's Mario Kart racing wheel, I only see a circular hunk of plastic with a big hole in the middle. It looks like Logitech has a new wireless racing wheel for players cursed with limited imaginative capabilities such as myself.

Now, that's what a real wheel looks like.

The Logitech Speed Force Wireless wheel sits in your lap and behaves as a wheel should by providing gravitational and rotational resistance. Logitech partnered up with EA to support force-feedback in the publisher's upcoming Need for Speed Undercover racing game for the Wii. The wheel doesn't come with a set of foot pedals or a shift stick, but it does have a set of paddle shifters.

That's a paddling.

The wheel comes with a 2.4GHz wireless USB transmitter that plugs into the Wii. The console interface may be wireless, but you will still need to plug the wheel into an AC electrical outlet for power.

The wheel has a wireless transmitter compartment for easy transport.

Expect to see the Logitech Speed Force Wireless in stores for $100 this November, just in time for Need for Speed Undercover.

17 Comments

  • Gorthin

    Posted Sep 4, 2008 5:46 am PT

    wth

  • rachkovsky

    Posted Sep 3, 2008 5:35 pm PT

    You never know it sounds better to me

  • PlayTogether

    Posted Aug 31, 2008 7:56 am PT

    What the hell? What is the point in bothering with all the 'wireless' stuff if you have to plug it in with wires?

    Expect to pay an extra £20/$30 for a battery pack/charger combo which Logitech will probably release months later when they realise nobody wants a wireless wheel with wires.

    I can just see the packaging now - 'Logitech wireless(sort of) wheel'

  • paladin125

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 8:42 pm PT

    $100 dollars for that? and you have to have a power cord for the wheel? that doesn't sound very good....

  • Rect_Pola

    Posted Aug 28, 2008 7:21 am PT

    Don't pick on the Wii wheel. It was simple because it wasn't about control, it was about immersion. It doesn't change anything in how you handle the game, it just makes it pretty. In contrast, the Zapper is supposed to tackle both.

    I doubt this will do much for Mario Kart, but it should be a godsend for grittier racers where physics is not your friend if you don't know how to use it.

  • princesstemo

    Posted Aug 27, 2008 4:28 pm PT

    Not for a $100..maybe $50

  • -Nintendude-

    Posted Aug 27, 2008 3:35 pm PT

    Pedals could have made it worth the price, barely.

  • ysef95

    Posted Aug 27, 2008 11:20 am PT

    so thats about £50 well not worth it it doesn't even have any accelarator or brake

  • harrisi17

    Posted Aug 26, 2008 8:31 pm PT

    $100, wtf, I would pay 40-50 dollars.

  • ak47pi

    Posted Aug 23, 2008 6:53 am PT

    Looks nice, but how does it preform?

  • jin_man

    Posted Aug 22, 2008 8:13 pm PT

    its worth $100 if it had gas and brake peddles

  • Megas_132

    Posted Aug 22, 2008 6:53 pm PT

    this gadget is great and all but wheres the gas and brake paddles.

  • Tjeremiah1988

    Posted Aug 21, 2008 8:05 pm PT

    to much but at least someone is caring about the Wii.

  • Dublex-Zero

    Posted Aug 21, 2008 7:57 pm PT

    I think it looks pretty.

  • yas710yaf

    Posted Aug 21, 2008 6:41 pm PT

    i remember getting that one logitec wheel for the gamecube for 20 dollars from toysrus, right when nfs underground came out

  • yas710yaf

    Posted Aug 21, 2008 6:36 pm PT

    whoa cool 2nd comment
    this looks cool i might get nfs undercover for the 360 though

  • bmaick

    Posted Aug 21, 2008 3:15 pm PT

    very good, but too expensive

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