Foresight Sports QUADMAX Released

[wzjy47]

I bough a broken unit a couple years ago and I believe it had I have 2 cameras replaced plus calibration which cost around $1,300 if I remember correctly.

[nicu2001]

Has anyone had to get their Quad repaired out of warranty and can share general costs? My Quad was one of the first ones at launch and so I am thinking of “justifying” the upgrade by getting a new unit under warranty with the very incremental benefits, though the swing speed stuff and customized tiles are certainly nice to haves.

[jasonreg]

Listen I'm not interested in trading in my Quad at that price either. But before we get all outraged at Foresight (who have a pretty price-insensitive clientele), how much should they be charging me to trade in my 5 year old, $17,000 machine for a brand-new, upgraded one?

Like, there is no way on earth it's going to be $500 or $1000. These things have held their value well, but the depreciation on your unit was more than that the day you took it home. It would be more than that just to trade it for a new identical GC Quad. Unless they were planning to cut the price point of the MAX to below the Quad -- which would make Quad owners even more unhappy -- there is no way the upgrade trade could be less than 5 grand at the bare minimum.

IMO for a trade of this nature - a few minor upgrades, but admittedly a new unit, I don't know what that was but at $2500 or less I likely would have been thinking about it. Any more does not make sense given my Quad is fully functional and doing everything I need it to do. Just saying that $8K makes no sense to me at all. Anyway, I am over it - time to hit some golf balls.

- must have been grumpy last night......

[sinkingputts]

You can buy a swing speed monitor for $100 on Amazon

[delaloi]

Listen I'm not interested in trading in my Quad at that price either. But before we get all outraged at Foresight (who have a pretty price-insensitive clientele), how much should they be charging me to trade in my 5 year old, $17,000 machine for a brand-new, upgraded one?

Like, there is no way on earth it's going to be $500 or $1000. These things have held their value well, but the depreciation on your unit was more than that the day you took it home. It would be more than that just to trade it for a new identical GC Quad. Unless they were planning to cut the price point of the MAX to below the Quad -- which would make Quad owners even more unhappy -- there is no way the upgrade trade could be less than 5 grand at the bare minimum.

[StalefishFS3]

Ridiculous. A blatant money grab if there ever was one. Every other manufacturer is building better for less, this does not bode well for Foresight IMO. Don't get me wrong, I love my quad, and there was a price where I may have jumped but it was measured in $100s not almost $10K.

I'm with you all the way. However, the upside IMO is this: if the QuadMax sells for $20,000 (and I assume it will not include the putting module) with software, it is going to fail at that price and Foresight will have to lower it. It simply will not be worth a 5-8K upgrade from the GCQuad. And used GCQuads can be had from anywhere from 10-12K, depending on age and what comes with it.

I too love the Quad. But Foresight is really dropping the ball here. The QuadMax should be rolling in at 15K with software. They should sunset the GCQuad. But now they will have one cannibalizing the other. The only benefit to the QuadMax is really if one uses it outdoors a lot. Indoors, none of the upgrades do anything for me, and a 200 swing radar monitor solves the swing speed training issue.

And don't get me started on the Falcon. What a disappointment, from the stupid dead zone to no impact camera. Sheesh Foresight, just pull the head out of the butt and see what every other overhead monitor competitor is doing.

[jasonreg]

So according to my buddy who has a quad they are offering a trade in upgrade for $8500.....for firmware upgrades, a touch screen, and new skins. All this while still running a beta sim program that can't secure licensing to courses....am I missing something here?

Ridiculous. A blatant money grab if there ever was one. Every other manufacturer is building better for less, this does not bode well for Foresight IMO. Don't get me wrong, I love my quad, and there was a price where I may have jumped but it was measured in $100s not almost $10K.

[flogball00]

So according to my buddy who has a quad they are offering a trade in upgrade for $8500.....for firmware upgrades, a touch screen, and new skins. All this while still running a beta sim program that can't secure licensing to courses....am I missing something here?

probably the same thing im missing. no way these trivial upgrades are worth 8500 to me. Imagine some people paying 20k fully loaded, just to pay 8500 more to upgrade.

[benzopyrene]

So according to my buddy who has a quad they are offering a trade in upgrade for $8500.....for firmware upgrades, a touch screen, and new skins. All this while still running a beta sim program that can't secure licensing to courses....am I missing something here?

[KidDoc]

Which app are you referring to?

[fortysixandtwo]

You can get those 3 added tiles on your phone with the app..

[PittsburghRed]

I suppose the swing speed training aspect is good, I use the cheap separate unit which works just fine as for the other three "new" measurements are just math and what's really weird is that they are available in the analysis features for FSX 2020 and FESX Pro?

Ball Apex
Ball Descent Angle
Ball Offline

How could they differ from what's already in the software? Or is that they are now shown on the unit, which I don't think displays these parameters right? Which means I guess the pros wanted this info on the range on their untis?

[delaloi]

Looks like a pretty modest update on the GC Quad. Nothing I would consider upgrading for.

[hamviper]

I don't get it? I guess it may be better for someone using it outside more often than inside? I would have at least expected the ball impact video you get from other units (the only feature I believe would improve the GC Quad).

I said the same thing. They did a refresh and most of what I see here is probably software/firmware. Showing impact on video like the uneekor seems like something actually called an upgrade. Realistically this should be cheaper then the last one as tech has gotten less expensive and far advanced from when this came out years ago. Here's hoping for a 3K cheaper price.

[Tom Howarth]

I don't get it? I guess it may be better for someone using it outside more often than inside? I would have at least expected the ball impact video you get from other units (the only feature I believe would improve the GC Quad).