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What is it that drives the prices of these HOTAS sets? Even the TM Cougar is still fairly expensive (from my point of view) despite its age. Is it the fact that these look like the real deal, or is the technology used in them really that good?

 

I've always found my old refurbished X52 to be plenty...

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I suspect a part of the price is due to limited demand. There certainly is nothing expensive about the technology involved.

 

There is also the possibility that the various companies consider us, as a group, to be complete idiots who will pay stupid amounts of money for our toys. :D

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Cougars are expensive because there's nothing else that comes close for F-16/Falcon4+ People

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But the Cougars still have flaws...I guess that's why they're just barely cheaper than the TM Hog.

 

Yes, they still have flaws, but people still buy them and mod them. I just bought one 2 months ago, it has the uber mod, but I may go force sensing.

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Meh, been there done that with modding (and creating my own missions and a bunch of other stuff). Net result is me spending more time modding/creating than actually flying lol.

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I really hope they will make one as I believe there is a big market for it, I'd prefer both!

But if they decide on only one then I'd hope they make a replica of one OR the other and not some awful hybrid mix of the two, they are similar but not identical especially since the throttles are very different.

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