Kermit 180
No - not the same at all! The 47 body gear IS steerable but ONLY for low speed taxying. The steering function is automatically disabled above 20 kts on the -400 and is manually switched on the 1/200s. The 52 gear is able to be preset to a particular 'crab' angle prior to touchdown to allow for crosswind landings.
The lack of rotation requirement on the 52 takeoff becomes pretty obvious when you look at the wing root attachment angle -the incidence angle. The only other aircraft I can recall with that sort of incidence was the Whitley and that used to fly markedly nose-down in the cruise.