A thing I've discovered while trying to figure out what yoke to buy *when* they're on the market again is that only four flight yokes have ever been manufactured
it looks to me that the only options even before FS2020 dropped were the saitek/logitech, the CH products, and something called 'honeycomb'
in turn, these appear to be:
- bad (reviews say the deadzone is atrocious and uneven)
- ancient (looks unaltered from 1994's model)
- extremely chinese-ODM (pianoblack plastic and weird, tonally inconsistent trim and lighting)
this is one of those things where you can easily just walk around believing that it was a whole market with dozens and dozens of products but in fact it's a niche no manufacturer really cares much about and people have been buying the same dismal product for 25 years
This happens way more than capitalism bootlickers would care to acknowledge. if something sells less than a million units a year, there is no market, there's just one company that dipped their toe in in 1993 and is still using the same molds
This is probably why the FS2020 release emptied the shelves at every store instantly - yokes are simply not a market anyone cares about and stocks were never high.
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