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Review on Hyperkin S Wheel Wireless Racing Controller - Officially Licensed By Xbox - Xbox One/Xbox Series X by John Hill

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Doesn't work very well, hardly used

This was a Christmas present for my son who had problems with it and was very upset. Believing it was just a learning curve I tried and it wasn't at all, this controller just doesn't work very well. A wireless steering wheel seems like a good idea, but you have to be wondering how well it responds to steering. without a mechanical sensor. In that case, this wheel is very bad. The steering lags behind the actual input, so you're constantly overcorrecting or exaggerating your moves to get them to steer. You turn the steering wheel a little, nothing happens, you turn it a little more and it turns too much. I assumed that using any wheel would be better than a little lever, but in this case it's a lot worse. It's like driving a car drunk on ice with the tie rods replaced with rubber bands. It looks like they used a weak angle/yaw sensor for this, which is too slow to respond and too inaccurate. I'm not sure if a wireless steering wheel can ever work perfectly, but I know modern iPhones seem to work well, so I suspect Hyperkin only used a low-quality sensor for this product. Unfortunately, this is just a useless product and a waste of time. Money.

Pros
  • There's something to it
Cons
  • Clarity