If we talk about quality flight simulation and joystick, we must speak without a doubt about this brand, Virpil, one of the best, if not the best manufacturer, which comes from Belarus and after long waits has finally opened a website in Europe. That said, does it outperform others like VKB? What makes it so special?
Virpil, the company that came, saw and won
The rise of the company was meteoric compared to its rivals, which took much longer. They launched high-end starter products and that directly catapulted them to fame which might have been better or worse at the time, but there they were in the innovation segment.
They were the first brand to release left-handed HOTAS, which gave them a resurgence in flight simulator popularity. Especially Flight simulator of Microsoft and of course the jewel in the crown, star citizenmuch more played than the first, although less precise, everything must be said.
The bottom line here is that as a Virpil brand they have a fairly clear strategy on how to approach the market and that is that the sections are only divided into two types of products on which everything is laid out day, then apart they have specific products and additions to them.
everything is divided into collectives and flightsticks as the main diagram, where in each of these sections are their specific handles and bases. What does Virpil achieve with this business strategy? Compatibility and update, where for more information, the parts we buy to assemble our configuration are pin-to-pin compatible with those of the Thrustmaster Warthog, with what this represents.
Success is in the choice
And it is that depending on the base that we choose, we can implement the stick bearing in mind that they must be adapted to a table or an external set that they also sell. There is the difference between t he bases and logically the user chooses the one he wants to choose and then updates it.
Once chosen, we will only have to choose the handle that we like the most, whether for left-handed or right-handed people, and complete the configuration with one of the products available on their website, such as the accelerators VPCthe different rudder pedals (and all its forms) or named media.
Likewise, there is something that makes this Virpil company different from others and that users like very much is that beyond the updates that we can do with full compatibility, we can repair our devices in a large extent.
They have for sale connectors, supports and cables that we can buy in order to repair our configuration ourselves, at least in the most worn parts. For all these reasons, Virpil, despite its small size, is considered perhaps the best brand of Space Sims peripherals on the market.
