PS4 Fanatec

Will Fanatec wheels be supported on PS4? There is a roumor going around that it won't unless Fanatec is licensed by Sony, which they aren't as of yet. Support in the past was up to the developer if they provided the drivers in the game. Sony now will require all wheels to be licensed before they will be supported.

Hope this isn't true. I'm really looking forward to this game.

 

I have used Fanatec V2 base / V3 pedals on PS4 for pCars.
No issues...

 

This is what I'm running with too on PCars. There is a thread on Fanatec's website talking about it not working any longer on future games.

https://www.fanatec.com/forum/discussion/187/playstation-compatibility/p3

Go to the end to see what is being discussed about it.

 

I see... Haven't followed that since I am not longer on console.
My guess is that possible issues will be solved before AC PS4 version hits the shelves.

 

This is really worrying me, ive got a @FANATEC GT2 which works beautifully with most other games on ps4 but all I really want to play is Assetto Corsa on ps4. Please @Kunos make it so @FANATEC wheels will work on ps4. @Sony want to sell new consoles but I will have to move over to PC before updating to the so called Neo as graphic cards are now affordable thanks to @AMD.
Please @Kunos I know you can do it.

 

Don't know why Kunos is not stating clearly that Fanatec wheels will be supported by the console version of the game.... not so "clear" or simply busy to do something else? (3rd option... they already fixed this but we are not able to find where
)

Checking italian racing games websites you can find a report of Vallelunga Showcase (end of May 2016) where guys played with PS4 and both Trustmaster and Fanatec wheels, but without specifing which ones (link).

On the same website there is an interview with M.Massarutto (beginning of June 2016) where he says that Assetto Corsa will support all Thrustmaster, Fanatec and Logitech steering wheels that are (or will be) compatible with PS4 and XB1 at the launch of the game (link).

So, we lack "ONLY" the official confirmation , but seems that there will be no problems with Fanatec

 

I am interested in what models of the upper-league wheels, namely Fanatec gear, are compatible with AC on PS4, too. I am considering to leave Windows platform completely, since Microsoft has pissed me so seriously over he past 18 months, and I am also considering to get a better wheel for the PC AND PS4, but I do not want to buy an expensive kit if I cannot use it on console for AC, in case I indeed migrate to it completely.

Researching the issue, time and again had me ending up in threads on this problem with Project Cars. In PC they released a Fanatec wheel list, but I saw that not all of their wheel rims are compatible with PC on PS4. So you can end up having the wheelbase, but the wrong wheel nevertheless.

For those not knowing the problem, Sony has introduced security chips for PS3 and PS4 that third party manufacturers must build into their hardware to have the console recognising the hardware. Only then this hardware will work with just any game on console, since the console generally recognises the hardware. If that chip is missing, software developers, in this case Kunos, must compensate for that by including dedicated software software support for that given piece of hardware without such a chip, else the hardware will be useless in that given title. Thats why it is important that Kunos gives clear confirmation of what wheels and rims work, and what not, the Fanatec stuff still comes without such security chips at least for PS4, so it needs software support to be given to the game.

Sony got burnt with third party equipment that came in the dress of official PS equipment, but was of bad quality, giving Sony a bad name that way. Also, they want to cash on having their own wheel especially licensed and promoted as the official wheel for Gran Turismo 6. It cannot be ruled out that they will even release a PS4 firmware that bans all hardware that now functions by game's software support, to support their future official GT wheel, and lock out the competition. A worst case scenario, but Microsoft and its GWX campaign - that crossed the red line by a huge jump and more - taught us that nothing can be ruled out anymore.

I would like to buy a better wheel than my G27, but these considerations and my idea of abandoning Windows completely, hold me back since months. Right now I have an isolated Windows 7 that gets no longer updated and is banned form accessing Microsoft servers, as a game launcher only, everything else - EVERYTHING - I do under Linux Mint. There will be no Windows 10 on my system, nor any other Microsoft software. Im done with Microsoft, for life. Thats why I look for alternatives, to get my daily candy via Linux and console. Flight simming is already scrapped for the future.

As it is, AC will be my only driving interest on PS4.

 

If he put it in these words for sure, then that is bad news, because it indicates they base on chip-based compatability of wheels, and Fanatec does nto have these chips. Like I said above, Fanatec, by all I learnt, depends on software support on PS4 by the game developer, it is not generally compatible with PS4.

I assume he said or meant something different, or got misquoted. At least I hope.

 

I do think it should be time by now that kunos announces the compatibility of all wheels on the ps4 and xbox.

 

I agree. AC releases in the US four weeks from today. I'm thinking it won't be compatible with Fanatec at launch. I'll wait a couple more weeks to hear something but I will cancel my preorder if it's not made clear.

 

It looks like Sony won't support Fanatic wheels on all future games for PS4. It doesn't matter what the developer wants to do. F1 2016 just confirmed.

http://blog.codemasters.com/f1/08/f1-2016-supported-wheels/

 

Shocking..... Idiotic Sony....

 

People should be putting pressure on Fanatec and Sony instead of the developers of the games, after all Sony can do no wrong this generation with their "For the players" motto. Perhaps Fanatec don't want to pay the licensing fee to Sony who knows, only them or Sony can answer

 

Yeah, well the biggest problem here is that both their customers are the ones who are f*ck*d now. They should have fixed this a long time ago...... It should not be our problem! Well, now it is......

 

chances are there will be a ps4 hub available in the future once they sort out the license with sony.

 

I knew this was coming, isn't there a new CSL base on the way with PS4 compatibility? Maybe when that's launched the older wheels will become compatible as per what happened with the Thustmaster wheels. As someone who brought a wheel when it was advertised as PS4 compatible I'm pretty disappointed.

 

As I understood, the new CSL base will probably not be ps4 compatible (the base itself). The compatibility will come when there will be a ps4 rim (or maybe a hub). This rim will probably make the V2 and the CSL base officially PS4 compatible. Not certain of it, but sounds plausible.....

 

likely it will just be a ps4 hub similar to the xbox one hub. just gotta wait on sony and fanatec to get it sorted

 

fanatec porsche gt2 cls suported on xbox not on ps4 ((((
so now what???
i shud by thrustmaster long time ago (((

 

Do any of you guys have an idea how to get the fanatec clubsport working on the ps4 with ac. I see people talk about some sort of hub. I can't believe a wheel like this is not supported!