MOZA Racing Debuts Its First Officially Licensed PS5 Wheels at Tokyo Game Show 2026

MOZA Racing unveiled its first officially licensed PlayStation 5 wheels at Tokyo Game Show 2026 on Thursday: the R5S Pro Racing Simulator bundle, the R16S Ultra Racing Simulator bundle, and the standalone R16S Ultra Direct Drive Wheel Base. All three will natively support Gran Turismo 7 from day one. It's the answer to a question MOZA's community has been asking for years, but the press materials stay quiet on exactly what would decide whether anyone actually buys one: price, release date, and final torque rating.

Three configurations, one certificate

The R5S Pro Racing Simulator is the entry point: a wheel base, wheel, and pedals in one box, built for someone who wants a complete MOZA setup without buying the pieces separately. The R16S Ultra Racing Simulator steps up, pairing the stronger R16S Ultra base with a dedicated wheel for players who want a more pronounced force feedback feel. MOZA also sells the R16S Ultra Direct Drive Wheel Base on its own, aimed at owners who'd rather pick a compatible wheel themselves.

The collaboration with Polyphony Digital is meant to deliver native Gran Turismo 7 integration from launch, with the list of supported titles growing over time. MOZA didn't say how many games the hardware supports at launch beyond GT7 itself. The press kit also doesn't include a high-resolution shot of the R5S Pro's pedals on their own, though what's visible in the product renders looks a lot like the existing two-pedal SR-P Lite2 set from MOZA's PC lineup. MOZA hasn't confirmed that directly.

Picking up where July left off

This debut didn't come out of nowhere. On July 28, Polyphony Digital named MOZA the new official Gran Turismo World Series partner, taking the spot vacated by Fanatec, a brand that had filed for bankruptcy the year before. A month later, at Gamescom 2026, MOZA showed off the biggest single wave of automotive licenses in the company's history: wheels for Mercedes, Porsche, Ford, and its first MotoGP hardware. The PS5 debut closes out that sequence, and it closes a gap that had been hanging over the whole partnership: MOZA has been the official hardware supplier for Gran Turismo World Series since July, but the console qualifiers for those events run on PS5, a platform no MOZA base officially worked on. The company had been advertising itself as the partner for a competition its own hardware couldn't formally plug into.

The reason: an encryption chip older bases don't have

No existing MOZA base works with PS5 today. The company says so outright in its own support documentation, and no adapter for current owners has ever been announced. The reason surfaced before MOZA said a word: on July 1, its manufacturer, Shenzhen Gudsen Technology, filed FCC test documentation for two previously unannounced models, the R5S Pro and R16S Ultra, rated in the 6 Nm and 16 Nm classes respectively.

The more interesting detail sits inside that same filing. The R16S Ultra's board is structurally almost identical to the existing, long-sold PC-only R16 Ultra base, with one addition: an extra encryption chip. Sony requires that chip in every officially licensed PS5 peripheral, and the console simply won't talk to a base that doesn't have it. That means an existing R16 Ultra owner can't get PS5 support through a firmware update, because the missing piece can't be added remotely. It has to be soldered in at the factory, which in practice means an entirely new unit, not an unlocked feature on an old one.

Where that puts MOZA against Fanatec and Logitech

MOZA hasn't published final, official specs for the PS5 versions yet. The 16 Nm class from the FCC filing lines up with what the identically named PC R16 Ultra already delivers, so it's a reasonable reference point, not a confirmed spec. Against that backdrop, it's worth lining up where the already-available, PS5-licensed bases from the competition sit.

If the FCC class carries over one to one into the finished product, the R16S Ultra would land comfortably between Logitech's entry model and Fanatec's top-end base: well ahead of the cheaper options, without pushing into the flagship tier of the brand that's been on PS5 the longest.

What's still unknown

MOZA's press release says pricing, availability, and the official launch date will be announced at a later stage. It also didn't say which of MOZA's existing steering wheels, the rims themselves rather than the bases, will work with the new R16S Ultra base. Sony's certification setup suggests it isn't just a matter of a matching mount either: the rim itself also has to formally pass PlayStation certification, so part of MOZA's catalog could stay PC-only even where it fits mechanically.

The company closed its announcement with a line that reads like a direct answer to years of community requests: "for the millions of racers who have been asking MOZA to bring its products to PlayStation, the wait is now coming to an end." For now, there's still no price, no firm date, and no final spec sheet, so nobody can actually order one yet.