As we continue our development journey to bring the evolutionary ProSteer to market we constantly receive feedback from game developers, testers and investors. One comment we keep hearing is that the inclusion of force feedback (FF) will make the ProSteer an absolute world beater as a complete steering controller. We agree, and first investigated FF in 2020. The main issue is creating the necessary power and torque within a compact handheld unit without compromising the mechanical function while avoiding unreasonable battery drain. Many times we have been told that this would be impossible with our size and power constraints, so FF was pushed back for a later edition ProSteer. 

The lure of this great (and essential) feature did not go away for our development team however, and our R&D has continued. We now believe we are close to a FF mechanism that can generate the necessary torque from a compact motor. Testing is continuing to ensure this can provide significant feedback across the ProSteer’s range of movement and force feedback development has been re-inserted into our final product design roadmap. The Boxdark development team are now confident that the (first edition) ProSteer will have proper force feedback to compliment 80 degrees of analog steering control!

For those of you who registered as test driver’s – we know things have taken longer than expected and we appreciate your patience. Please stay tuned, we’re planning to have first edition samples for testing at events in November. Keep an eye out for your invite.