In a surprise joint announcement today, Polyphony Digital and Moza Racing announced a new partnership : Moza becomes an official partner to the Gran Turismo World Series, the official esport series of GT7 with live events around the world, starting on August 15th for round 2 of the 2026 season.
Things have been made pretty clear : Playstation compatible Moza hardware is coming. In the words of Kazunori Yamauchi, creator and producer of Gran Turismo, "the evolution of consumer-level force feedback steering that started from Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec is still ongoing, but with MOZA now joining us as a partner I’m excited to see the expanded possibilities to develop a steering wheel that is optimal in the eyes of ‘Gran Turismo’. Please look forward to the new products that will be released through MOZA". Moza's own website also explicitly mentions they are working "toward introducing [our] first officially licensed PlayStation® racing products".
This is a massive step forward for both companies, as Moza opens itself up to the largest player base in simracing, and Gran Turismo and Playstation open up to a very popular, affordable and well furnished simracing ecosystem. Looking at previous partnerships with Thrustmaster and Fanatec, we can hope for existing Moza wheelbases to receive the Playstation chip, and a Gran Turismo licensed rim to be released through bundles.
The interesting part is Moza also announced and launched 2 new wheelbases today as well : the R16 Ultra, and the R5 Pro. The later features a 6 Nm motor, a new case with a similar design to the R3's, and is now packaged with SRP2 Lite pedals for 420€, but what struck our attention is this extract from the R16 Ultra patent, posted by Reddit user WornTyre5304 :
The patent clearly indicates the existence of a R16S version that benefits from an encryption chip and different software version that allows it to "pair with PS devices". Moza has not yet communicated in an official manner about which products would become Playstation compatible, but this confirms the new 16 Nm base will be part of the lineup.
Question is to know if the R5 Pro will receive the same treatment, and what will happen with the other models in the chinese manufacturer's range. We believe Moza has some great cards to play with a potential R3 bundle if they could keep it under 400€ - which looks possible, based on current prices for the PC only version, and considering the Playstation license markup from other brands is between 50 and 70€ on base alone, so everything would come down to how complex the official Gran Turismo rim will be. If Moza can pull that off, it could very well ring the end of belt driven wheels. In any case, the competition in the simracing hardware will be getting a notch tougher yet again.
Moza also officially launched the HMA150 Haptic Motion System that was already teased not too long ago, with a 4 actuators set being sold for 3000$ / 3200€.