Saw this played out in other places.
The Simforge pedals do look better than Fanatec V3's, but Barry clearly said at the end that other premium pedals feel better.
So at this price point they are likely good bang for the buck but only if you were planning to get V3's.
If you were looking to anti up to HE Sprints than that is still your best option.
That's not the real issue here. Of course more expensive pedals will be better, but not everyone can afford the more premium pedals. The issue is, can we get better than V3 for V3 price,
and meet demand?
The real issue is, will this company handle the massive demand, keep their production levels high and be able to deal with the amount of RMA support/requests that inevitably start to happen?
PT2 pedals were legitimately a better pedal set than V3's, period. And they were a good alternative for people who wanted something HE Pro/Sprint level for a better price. But there's a reason they don't exist anymore lol. Chris(?) was stressed out, working overtime to make them, and the money he made barely broken even his labor hours. And he even limited their production.
Whenever these "way better than V3's, comparable to Sprints but much cheaper" pedals come up, there's always issues with them not being able to keep up supply to meet demand. When you're selling things that cheap, that means you have less employees working on them. It's just economics. Either that or you're a big company that has a fabrication factory and you're just paying to have them manufactured somewhere else (Fanatec, Logitech, TM). That's the
only way to reduce cost but be able to keep up with demand, unless your demand is really low. And for pedals like this, I almost ordered them when I saw SRG's review, but I stopped when I realized, he has 80k subscribers, and thousands of people commented on FB/his video about how surprised they are with the quality. I wouldn't be surprised if they woke up the next day and were happy at first, but then reality sunk in that they now have hundreds (maybe over a thousand?) of orders for pedals they were prepared to sell, at most 50 units of in the first month.
The show gets a bad rep but Big Bang Theory had a good episode about this where the girl was selling hand-made accessories for like $3 and the guys tried to help her scale up by making a website, she got an order for 1000 of them and 6 people had to work all day and night for a few days straight to meet the order. Will these pedals be the next V3's, or the next PT2's (AKA Penny Blossoms)?
I loved my HE Sprints. Best pedal set I ever owned and they were clearly a whole other league over V3's, but they were expensive. So honestly, they
needed to be that much better because if they were even 10-15% less good, they'd be a bad value. It'd be nice to see a more affordable competitor that's not as good, but at least much better than V3's. V3's are honestly not that good (and I say that as a huge Fanatec fan). I actually recommend CSL LC pedals over the V3's.
I just took a look at their website closer. They're based in India, they're using some off the shelf parts (good for some reasons, bad for others) for their build. I have doubts that they will be able to meet a sudden surge of demand. I wouldn't be surprised if they have massive delays and put out dozens of units a month and just have excuses for why production is so slow. Buy if you really want them, but don't expect them to arrive in the middle of May like they're saying. Their order times use static text and doesn't update based on pre-orders received, so it's very possible hundreds of orders have gone in and they haven't updated the estimated ship time to reflect the new production ETA. I'd love to be proven wrong and I will admit I jumped the gun if they go out, but you have been warned.