Start with the package you will keep
The PlayStation/PC T248 gives a concrete set of controls to consider: a built-in dashboard, three force-feedback presets and the named T3PM magnetic pedals. If those are the features you want to use with the supplied wheel, it has a clear role without imagining a future collection of rims. Dashboard telemetry is a separate game-support question, however; a screen on the wheel does not make every title send it the same information.
T300RS GT makes rim changing explicit
Thrustmaster gives the T300RS series a documented wheel-changing system. For a player who already knows that changing the steering-wheel form is part of the plan, that is a more useful selection reason than a vague desire to “upgrade later”. Check the exact intended rim in the supported ecosystem rather than treating the brand name as universal compatibility.
The GT package lists T3PA-GT pedals, while the T248 body names T3PM. T300RS GT also documents a brushless, dual-belt mechanism; T248 describes a hybrid system. Those are real design differences, but they do not by themselves establish how either will feel to a particular driver.
Choose the future you actually intend to use
T248 makes sense to investigate for its particular supplied controls and pedal package. T300RS GT has the clearer documented route when a different compatible rim is already a meaningful part of the plan. Keep the exact package name attached to the decision: another T300RS bundle can have different contents, and an Xbox-labelled T248 is not the PlayStation model compared here. Optional expansion is useful when it serves a racing preference, not merely because another accessory can be bought.
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