Asetek Invicta Formula Button Box review: $1,249.99, and $1,467.99 before it steers
Researched overview Manufacturer listings and owner reports, with no hands-on testing.
The Asetek Invicta Formula Button Box is $1,249.99 and that is the smallest number on this page. Asetek prints “Note: Handles are sold separately”, and its own FAQ reaches an Asetek wheelbase “using the USB-C Quick Release Adapter”, which is a $129.00 part. So the cheapest version of this product that a person can hold and turn is $1,467.99, before a base and before pedals.
It is also the whole of the Invicta line’s steering-wheel catalog. Asetek sells no Invicta wheel with grips on it and no Invicta GT box, in either its US or its global store, which is the first thing to know if you came here looking for a family.
| Type | Formula button box. Controls, carbon front plate, paddles, and a display; no grips. "Note: Handles are sold separately" |
|---|---|
| Shape and size | Formula. Diameter priced by grip: 300 mm on Regular or LMP handles, 304 mm on suede or XL |
| Controls | 12 push buttons, 3 twelve-position absolute rotary encoders, 6 thumb wheels, 2 seven-way kinky switches, 2 rocker switches, and 6 paddles. 31 physical controls |
| Screen | 4.3-inch LCD touch panel, 800 x 480, 60 Hz. Configurable through RaceHub or SimHub |
| Lights | 15 RevLEDs, 6 FlagLEDs, 10 button LEDs, 4 flip-switch LEDs, 12 rotary LEDs |
| Face and chassis | 4 mm carbon front plate with anodized aluminum components, machined from solid |
| Quick release | 70 x 6 mm mounting pattern, third-party compatible. Reaches an Asetek base "using the USB-C Quick Release Adapter" |
| Platforms | PC. That is the compatibility badge's only item, and the FAQ never raises the question |
| Build | Made to order. "Delivery may take up to 2 weeks due to custom orders being handbuilt and shipped from Denmark." No stock line, no Add to cart, a Configure button instead |
| Price | $1,249.99 excluding sales tax on Asetek's US category pages. The page its US address serves says "From $1,299.00 Excl. VAT" |
| Best for | Someone already on an Asetek base who wants the screen and the paddle count, and has priced the adapter and the grips in |
Who it’s for
Section titled “Who it’s for”Somebody buying the top of one ecosystem, who has read the whole invoice rather than the sticker.
Buy it if:
- You want a screen on a formula wheel and you are in Asetek’s world. The 4.3-inch 800 x 480 60 Hz panel is the reason this costs what it does, and Asetek’s own copy promises touch functionality later rather than now: “In the future, we will enable touchscreen functionality”.
- You want six paddles. The $479.00 Forte Formula Button Box gives two and the $649.00 Pro gives two. This gives six, which is the one specification where the gap to the Forte boxes is a count rather than a finish.
- You change grips by category. The four handle sets are $89.00 to $109.00 and the box is priced for all four rather than shipped with one, so nothing gets bought and immediately replaced.
Not the one if the number that matters is the sticker, because $1,249.99 buys a part you cannot hold. Not the one if you are shopping across brands on price, because at $1,467.99 usable you are past every finished formula wheel this site covers but one: only the ~$1,480 Cube Controls CSX-3 costs more, and it costs $12.01 more. And not the one if you need a rim rather than handles, because every handle set Asetek sells for this shape is a formula grip.
What it costs to steer with
Section titled “What it costs to steer with”Every figure is the regular US price off that product’s own Asetek listing or US category card, read 4 August 2026, exclusive of sales tax.
| Purchase | Regular | Running total |
|---|---|---|
| Invicta™ Formula Button Box | $1,249.99 | $1,249.99 |
| Invicta™ Quick Release Adapter (USB-C) | $129.00 | $1,378.99 |
| Formula Regular Handles, the cheapest of four | $89.00 | $1,467.99 |
| Cheapest Asetek base: Initium Direct Drive Wheelbase | $349.00 | $1,816.99 |
| Or the base it shares a line with: Invicta™ Direct Drive Wheelbase 27Nm | $1,349.00 | $2,816.99 |
Pedals are on top of both. See wheelbases for what goes under it.
The adapter line is the one to check before you trust this table. It rests on a single sentence, the FAQ answer “The wheel is compatible with Asetek Racing™ wheelbases using the USB-C Quick Release Adapter and with other wheelbases using a 3rd party adapter or quick release.” No Forte Formula listing says anything like it; all three of those describe a quick release already fitted. Working the other direction, the Invicta Quick Release Adapter (USB-C) listing never uses the words “Button Box” and describes the opposite job, putting a third-party wheel onto an Asetek base: “In basic terms, the Invicta Quick Release Adapter makes it possible to mount any steering wheel with a standard hole pattern on your Asetek SimSports Wheelbase.” So Asetek’s two pages point at each other without either naming the other’s product, and $129.00 of this total rests on the first sentence alone.
The price is genuinely unsettled
Section titled “The price is genuinely unsettled”This is unusual enough to spell out, because it is not a rounding difference.
| Where | What it says | Tax basis | Shape |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Steering Wheels category | $1,249.99 | Excl. Sales Tax | Flat figure |
| US Invicta category | $1,249.99 | Excl. Sales Tax | Flat figure |
| The page the US address serves | From $1,299.00 | Excl. VAT | Starting price, Configure button |
Requesting /simsports/us/product/invicta-formula-steering-wheel/ returns Asetek’s Global store page. Its title ends “Asetek Racing™ Global”, every price on it is labeled Excl. VAT, and its region picker gives Global the product-specific link while pointing its US entry at the US store root. Fetching the Forte Formula Button Box’s US address through the same tool minutes earlier returned a US page with a US picker, so this is specific to this product rather than a quirk of how the page was read. It reproduced across three fetches, including one with caching disabled.
What that leaves a buyer with: a US price with no US product page behind it, and a product page whose figure is a floor in a different tax basis. This page records $1,249.99 as the US figure because two US surfaces print it, and treats it as a starting price because the only ordering control anywhere is Configure. Nobody exercised the configurator, so what a specified example costs is unknown.
Against the rest of the Asetek formula shelf
Section titled “Against the rest of the Asetek formula shelf”| Product | Sticker | Grips | Paddles | Screen | Usable total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forte® Formula Steering Wheel | $529.00 | Regular fitted | 2 | None | $529.00 |
| Forte® Formula Button Box | $479.00 | Sold separately | 2 | None | $568.00 |
| Forte Formula Pro | $649.00 | Sold separately | 2 | 4.3in | $738.00 |
| Invicta™ Formula Button Box | $1,249.99 | Sold separately | 6 | 4.3in touch | $1,467.99 |
The Pro is the comparison that matters, because it is the other Asetek formula box with a 4.3-inch screen. Made usable it is $738.00 against this box’s $1,467.99, a gap of $729.99, and what the gap buys on Asetek’s published specifications is four more paddles, a touch panel rather than a plain one, and a machined-aluminum chassis with a 4 mm carbon front plate rather than the Pro’s glassfiber-reinforced housing. Asetek nowhere argues that trade on either listing; neither page mentions the other.
Watch-outs
Section titled “Watch-outs”- The sticker price is not the price. Budget $1,467.99, and compare that number rather than $1,249.99.
- $129.00 of that rests on one sentence. Asetek’s FAQ names a USB-C Quick Release Adapter for reaching its own bases, and the adapter’s own page never names this product. If you are ordering, confirm with Asetek which adapter and whether you need one.
- Two prices, two taxes, one product. $1,249.99 Excl. Sales Tax on the US category pages, “From $1,299.00 Excl. VAT” on the page the US address actually serves.
- The URL calls it a steering wheel, and so does some of its own copy.
/product/invicta-formula-steering-wheel/, and a marketing block reading “the Invicta™ Formula Steering Wheel”. It is a button box, and the headline, the spec heading, and both catalog cards say so. - The product photography shows it with grips on. The listing’s gallery runs six images across two build codes, and one from each was opened: both have a handle set fitted, on a page that prints “Note: Handles are sold separately” and lists no handle among its seven box contents. The two also differ in trim, suede grips with red anodized switches against smooth grips with silver ones, which is the configurator showing rather than a second product. Nothing on this page rests on an image, and the $89.00 line in the table above is why: what arrives is the part in the middle of those photographs.
- There is no Invicta wheel and no Invicta GT box. If you want an Asetek wheel that arrives gripped, the Forte Formula at $529.00 is the formula answer and the La Prima GT is the round one.
- The touchscreen is not a touchscreen yet. “In the future, we will enable touchscreen functionality” is Asetek’s own wording on a 4.3-inch panel it calls an LCD Touch Panel in the same specification block.
- Made to order, from Denmark. “Delivery may take up to 2 weeks due to custom orders being handbuilt and shipped from Denmark.” There is no stock line to read and no Add to cart button.
- PC only, as far as Asetek will say. One machine named on a badge, no console mentioned in either direction, and no platform question in the FAQ at all.
- Asetek’s own site is hard to read. www.asetek.com answered a plain fetch with HTTP 403 and a Cloudflare interstitial on 4 August 2026, so every figure here was read through a text proxy. Prices and availability can move behind that wall without this page knowing.
Alternatives to consider
Section titled “Alternatives to consider”- Asetek Forte Formula Pro: $649.00, the same 4.3-inch screen size, 300 mm on Regular grips, and $729.99 cheaper once both are made usable. The default answer unless the paddle count or the aluminum chassis is what you came for.
- Asetek Forte Formula Steering Wheel: $529.00 with Regular grips fitted and no screen. The cheapest way into an Asetek formula shape that works out of the box.
- Moza FSR2: $649.00 for a carbon formula rim with a 4.3-inch telemetry touchscreen and six magnetic paddles, which is the same paddle count and the same screen class for roughly half.
- Moza Porsche Mission R: $1,299.00, the nearest priced wheel in this catalog and a finished wheel rather than a gripless box, so its sticker is closer to its usable total than this one’s is.
- Simagic FX: $359.00 regular for a finished carbon formula wheel, if the reason you are here is a formula shape rather than the Asetek ecosystem.
Steering wheels sorts the whole category by shape and says which cards are parts rather than wheels, and rims and quick-releases covers what bolts to what.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”www.asetek.com answered curl with HTTP 403 and a Cloudflare “Just a moment…” interstitial on 4 August 2026, so every page below was read through the r.jina.ai text proxy on that date, at HTTP 200. Byte counts are the proxy’s rendering. Every quotation above was verified character for character against those bytes. Asetek’s specification rows are rendered by that proxy as a bold label run set directly against its value, so no specification figure above is presented as a quotation; those are described, and the quoted strings are sentences that stand alone in the bytes.
- The box: Invicta™ Formula Button Box, 65,714 bytes, carrying the headline, the compatibility badge, the “From $1,299.00 Excl. VAT” line, the “Note: Handles are sold separately” line, the Tech Specs block, the six-question FAQ, and the seven-line box list. The same content at its global address, 65,799 bytes.
- The two US catalogs that price it: Asetek’s Steering Wheels category at 54,286 bytes and its second page at 54,034 bytes, which print “11 out of 22 products” and “22 out of 22 products”; and the Invicta category at 54,106 bytes, which prints “11 out of 11 products”. Both print $1,249.99 Excl. Sales Tax.
- The negative, checked twice more: Asetek’s US product search for “invicta” at 54,214 bytes, and the global Steering Wheels category across three pages at 55,217, 55,154, and 52,669 bytes, printing “24 out of 24 products”. One Invicta steering-wheel product in every one of them, and it is this box.
- The adapter: Invicta™ Quick Release Adapter (USB-C), $129.00, 55,215 bytes, which carries “In stock and ready to ship” and never uses the words “Button Box”.
- The grips: Formula Regular Handles at $89.00 and 49,837 bytes, whose compatibility note reads “These handles are only compatible with Asetek Racing™ Formula Button Boxes and Formula Wheels.” The suede set at $89.00, the LMP set at $89.00, and the XL set at $109.00 are priced off the category’s second page rather than opened individually for this page.
- The paddles: Paddle Bundle, 51,408 bytes, regular $78.00 and $64.99 on the check date.
Which platforms it works on
- PC
- Yes“PC” Asetek Racing’s own listing, checked August 2026.
- PlayStation
- Listing does not say
- Xbox
- Listing does not say
- Console license
- Not recorded
- How it connects
- Only through a wheelbase or hub“A: The wheel is compatible with Asetek Racing™ wheelbases using the USB-C Quick Release Adapter and with other wheelbases using a 3rd party adapter or quick release.”Asetek Racing’s own listing, checked August 2026.The quoted string is the whole of the FAQ answer to Asetek's own question "What wheelbases are compatible with the Invicta™ Formula Button Box?", verified byte-verbatim with `grep -F` against this listing's 65,714 fetched bytes, where it occurs once. The leading "A: " is on the line and is kept inside the quotation, which is what `asetek-forte-formula-button-box` does with the same page furniture. `mode` is `through-base`: the quick release is the mount and the data path, and this box names no port of its own. Two specification rows say the same thing and are described rather than quoted per the convention under `platforms` above: a Quick Release row giving a "Ø70×6 mm mounting pattern 3rd Party", and a Quick Release compatibility row whose value is "Yes". What separates this record from its three Forte Formula siblings is the first half of the quoted answer. Those three carry a line saying the Asetek quick release is fitted and needs no cable, battery, or wireless signal; this one says an Asetek wheelbase is reached "using the USB-C Quick Release Adapter", which is a purchase, and it is recorded under `requires` below because of it. The second half, about other wheelbases, is the cross-brand route only the $649.00 Forte Formula Pro publishes among the Forte boxes.
The quoted string is the whole of the compatibility badge's single item, on its own line in the fetched bytes, where `^PC$` matches exactly one line. The bare token "PC" occurs four times in the file overall and the other three are not product copy: one is inside the cookie-policy paragraph listing devices, one is inside the cross-sell card name "Initium Racing Bundle APAC (PC)", and one is inside the footer's company description ("changed PC cooling with all-in-one liquid coolers"). Unlike all three Forte Formula listings, this one's FAQ contains no platform question and no platform answer, so there is no sentence to quote and the badge item is the whole of what Asetek states. The page these bytes came from is Asetek's Global store page, served at the product's US address, which is documented in the header comment above; the platform answer is the same on either storefront's rendering of it because it is one badge on one product.
Optional upgrades
“A: Yes. The Invicta™ Formula Button Box supports exchangeable handles, including Regular, XL, LMP, and Suede handle options.” “A: Yes. You can personalize your setup with interchangeable handles, optional paddle upgrades, button kits, and future color customization options.” “The Invicta™ Formula Button Box is part of our ecosystem, allowing you to purchase additional accessories to further customize your wheel. This includes various handles, shifters, and encoder colors, so you can change the look of your wheel in a matter of minutes.” Asetek Racing’s own words, naming 6 parts, checked August 2026.
Six parts, and the three strings under `says` are byte-verbatim against this listing's 65,714 fetched bytes with one occurrence each. The first two are FAQ answers, to "Are the handles interchangeable?" and "Does the Invicta™ Formula Button Box support customization and upgrades?", and both leading "A: " prefixes are on the line and kept. The third is body copy from the listing's FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE block. What Asetek names nowhere on this listing is a path from any cheaper formula box up to this one: no upgrade kit, no trade-in, and no sentence naming the Forte Formula, the Forte Formula Pro, or either La Prima formula box.
- Formula Regular Handles
- $89“These handles are only compatible with” “Asetek Racing™ Formula Button Boxes and Formula Wheels.”$89.00 and the cheapest way to make this box steer, so it is a required purchase before it is an upgrade, recorded under `requires` above as well as here. The compatibility sentence is quoted in the two contiguous runs the bytes hold rather than as one string, because the fetched line reads `**Note:** These handles are only compatible with [Asetek Racing™ Formula Button Boxes and Formula Wheels.](https://www.asetek.com/simsports/product-category/steering-wheels/formula-wheels/)`, with Asetek's own label in bold and the second half of its own sentence linked to the formula-wheels category. Both runs are byte-verbatim against this handle set's own 49,837 fetched bytes and occur once each. The sentence names a class rather than this product: it is what puts an Asetek Formula Button Box in scope, and this box is one by Asetek's own `<h1>`. What no Asetek page read on the check date does is name the Invicta and a handle set in the same sentence, so the pairing rests on the class wording here and on this listing's own four-option FAQ answer quoted above, which are two sources and are not merged into one.
- Formula Regular Handles w. suede
- $89$89.00, read off the US Steering Wheels category's second page, and the option this listing's own diameter rows put at 304 mm.
- Formula LMP Handles
- $89$89.00, and the set this listing's diameter rows put at 300 mm, the same as Regular. Its own listing was not re-read for this record, so its price is the US category card's figure. What `asetek-forte-formula-button-box` records about it still stands and is not restated as though this pass verified it: that set's compatibility sentence ends "Formula Button Boxes and Wheels." where the other three end "Formula Button Boxes and Formula Wheels.", which is a wording difference on one listing rather than a different set of compatible products.
- Formula XL Handles
- $109$109.00, the dearest of the four, and the one this listing's diameter rows put at 304 mm.
- Invicta Quick Release Adapter (USB-C)
- $129$129.00, and a required purchase rather than an upgrade if this listing's FAQ is read literally, which is why it is under `requires` above as well. Its own page prices it "$129.00 Excl. Sales Tax $129.00", carries "In stock and ready to ship", and states "The Invicta™ Quick Release Adapter comes with a 25 mm tube." along with a note that this version ships no extension tubes where the previous version did. Both quoted strings are byte-verbatim against its own 55,215 fetched bytes and occur once each.
- Paddle Bundle
- $78The one part in this listing's cross-sell block that was discounted on the check date. Its own US page printed "~~$78.00~~Original price was: $78.00.$64.99 Current price is: $64.99.Excl. Sales Tax $64.99", so `msrp` carries the regular $78.00 rather than the day's $64.99, because a discount is not a price. It is what the FAQ answer quoted above means by optional paddle upgrades. Worth reading against this box's own specification, which already gives 6 paddles where the $479.00 Forte Formula Button Box gives 2, so what the bundle adds here is less clear than it is there and Asetek does not say.
Frequently asked questions
Is there an Asetek Invicta steering wheel, as opposed to a button box?
No. Asetek's US Invicta category printed "You are viewing 11 out of 11 products" on 4 August 2026 and exactly one of the eleven is a steering-wheel product: this button box. The other ten are a wheelbase, two pedal sets, a clutch system, two quick-release adapters, a long-travel kit, face plates, and two bundles. The Steering Wheels category tells the same story from the other side: of its 22 products, the four Asetek calls a steering wheel are the Initium, the La Prima Formula, the Forte Formula, and the Forte Formula Pro, and none is an Invicta. There is no Invicta GT product either.
What does the Asetek Invicta Formula Button Box actually cost to use?
$1,467.99 at regular US prices excluding sales tax, on Asetek's own words: $1,249.99 for the box, $129.00 for the Invicta Quick Release Adapter (USB-C) its FAQ names as the route to an Asetek wheelbase, and $89.00 for the cheapest of the four formula handle sets, because "Note: Handles are sold separately". A wheelbase and pedals are on top of that.
Why does the price change depending on where you look?
Because the US address serves a different store's page. Asetek's two US category pages print $1,249.99 excluding sales tax against the link /simsports/us/product/invicta-formula-steering-wheel/. Requesting that link returns Asetek's Global store page, titled "Asetek Racing™ Global", which prices the product "From $1,299.00 Excl. VAT" and offers a Configure button rather than Add to cart. The two figures are $49.01 apart, they are labeled with two different taxes, and one of them is a floor rather than a price. Read 4 August 2026.
Why does the URL say steering wheel?
Because Asetek's slugs disagree with its own product names. This box sits at /product/invicta-formula-steering-wheel/ and Asetek does the same thing to the La Prima GT Button Box (/product/la-prima-gt-steering-wheel-black/) and the Forte Formula Button Box (/product/forte-formula-steering-wheel-black-aluminum/). On this listing the prose disagrees too: one block calls it "the Invicta™ Formula Steering Wheel" and another calls it "The Invicta™ Button Box". The headline, the spec heading, the box-contents heading, and both catalog cards say Button Box.
Which handles fit it?
All four of Asetek's formula sets. Its own FAQ answers this outright: "Yes. The Invicta™ Formula Button Box supports exchangeable handles, including Regular, XL, LMP, and Suede handle options." Regular, suede, and LMP are $89.00 and XL is $109.00. Regular and LMP make it 300 mm; suede and XL make it 304 mm.
Does the Asetek Invicta Formula Button Box work on PlayStation or Xbox?
Asetek does not say. The compatibility badge above the price shows one item, PC, and this listing's six-question FAQ asks nothing about platforms at all, unlike all three Forte Formula listings. PlayStation, PS4, PS5, and Xbox return zero hits across the whole page, searched case-insensitively on 4 August 2026. That is silence rather than a no.