Because dates are all we have, and that’s because Thrustmaster claims to have had a very busy year and has rewarded its employees with quite a few days off this Christmas. So once we know that there will be nothing more this year on this new basis we can write with what we have.
Yesterday this information was shown on the company’s official Twitter account which takes us to 2022, well into January, to find out more about the competition they are developing for Fanatec.
At the moment the only thing they have said is that the current ecosystem is compatible with the new base, so it is understood that they want to stay in their contained price ranges, trying to fight against CSL DD and GT DD PRO, real sales monsters that now seem impossible to knock down. We will see how all this evolves.
We expand, with explicit information that is implied in this image due to the confusion it is causing:
- More information will be available on 20 January 2022.
- All current Thrustmaster add-ons are compatible, so the connection system is the same.
The hexagonal shaped light is because of the shape of the base (if you turn up the brightness it looks complete), which is also hexagonal and maintains grooves on 3 sides to increase cooling to the shape the CSL DD has. The hexagonal shape means that it can only be anchored to the underside of current trays. - The hexagonal shaped light is almost certainly an aesthetic embellishment that forms part of the base at the rear.
- The base is announced for PC, as a PlayStation product is more time consuming due to Sony’s involvement and licensing.
- The hashtag #STARTINGLIGHTS could refer to the lights on the right, so we could be left with 18 teasers of details until we have an actual announcement.
At the moment it looks like that’s all.
See you on the track!
