The studio behind JDM: Japanese Drift Master has revealed that it plans to deliver more console steering wheel support, car DLCs and multiplayer in the near future.
- Free Japanese cars coming to JDM: Japanese Drift Master
- Paid-for ‘DLC 2’ coming soon
- Multiplayer coming ‘Q2 2026’
- PlayStation 5 version to receive Logitech and Thrustmaster steering wheel support
The team behind JDM: Japanese Drift Master has revealed a concise roadmap for what it hopes to bring to the game this year, with free car DLC on the table.
Via a Steam community post, developer Gaming Factory first plans to release a follow-up to its Made in USA DLC: a second, as-yet-unnamed paid expansion, which will then lead to the unveiling of a selection of free Japanese cars. Whether any of these will be licensed has yet to be revealed, though.
The Polish studio will then move on to introduce multiplayer across all formats, including the recently released PlayStation 5 version, with the current window set at ‘Q2 2026’. This will likely coincide with the ability to implement custom livery and sticker systems.
More imminently, Gaming Factory plans to add more steering wheel support for consoles, with Logitech and Thrustmaster wheel compatibility coming to the PS5 edition of the game in the next few days. Xbox users may still have to wait longer for this, however, but the studio stresses that it’s ‘actively looking into adding wheel support’ for Microsoft’s console.
Tantalisingly, the prospect of a Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game was raised in the same post, with the statement reading: ‘With JDM now being on almost all major platforms (looking at you Nintendo Switch 2)…’. It’s not quite a confirmation, but it’s a move that would make a lot of business sense.