A Serious Cockpit for Serious Sim Racers... Playseat Trophy Logitech Edition Review

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When you’re looking to delve deeper into the hobby of sim racing, there will come a point where sitting in your office chair, with your g29 bolted to your desk just doesn’t cut it anymore. If you’re getting serious about sim racing, the Playseat Trophy Logitech Edition is the perfect demonstration of that. It’s a serious cockpit, with some serious strength & comfortability.

It’s relatively easy to build too, and I was able to piece it all together in about an hour. Despite some small QC issues, such as paint filling a pretty vital screw hole, which I was just able to poke through, And this thingy majig that holds the wheelbase plate just being loose in the box, and being a pretty big pain to put back on, I was surprised at how premium this thing felt.

It’s properly solid, and doesn’t feel like a toy in the slightest. But weight in at 17kg or 37 pounds, it’s refreshingly light too. Now it’s time for the sit test… and yes, it doesn’t look comfortable at all, and that’s because it wasn’t, but that’s by design…

You see, one of the greatest features of the Playseat Trophy Logitech G Edition is it’s adjustability, and there’s almost infinites levels of it. From the pedal plate, which not only has slots enabling you to scoot it around to any desired position or angle, but there’s also a plethora of bolt holes, allowing you to get the perfect fit. These are complete with four, easily adjustable bolts which you won’t need any tools to change.

You can also extent the cockpit entirely with two telescopic tubes, finished with I think laser printed markings, allowing you to make sure both sides are matching exactly. Furthermore, the angle of the wheelbase plate is also adaptable, and as well as the seat. Although, these little things here are a MASSIVE issue, but we’ll get onto that in a moment.

With such an emphasis on adjustability of the pedals, with these bright blue knobs that are begging to be twisted, it’s a mystery to me why I then need to use an allen key four times just to adjust the angle of the wheelbase or length of the entire thing. I would have loved to see these things be as easily adjustable, and for me personally, the pedals were the things I adjusted least. They’re just something you set and forget. Additionally, if I want to change the angle of the backrest, I need to use TWO allen keys twice. Also, if it’s not obvious there’s no height adjustability of the wheelbase, but I didn’t find that to be an issue.

Moving onto the seat itself now, and this is where I find fault with those god damn things. You might turn your nose up at a Velcro chair, but I think these things are the perfect solution. When you first sit in it, as you’ve seen, it’s uncomfortable. But do to the Velcro being almost infinitely adjustable, you can go down one by one, resetting every piece of Velcro until the seat is practically moulded to your body. After some fine tuning, you’ve got a chair that is extremely comfortable.
I’m 6’2, and my shoulders are pretty broad, yet I still manage to fit into the chair snugly, and it feels like an actual bucket seat. However, most of my height is in my legs, and even with the chair extended to LARGE, my feet might be a touch too close to the pedals, and if I raise my knee, it does clatter against the underside of the wheelbase plate which can get quite frustrating. The crown of my head also leans againt the uppermost metal bar on the seat, but this has been an issue in every single cockpit I’ve used to date. Despite this, one plus is that the Playseat Trophy Logitech G Edition does wrap it in foam which makes it slightly more comfortable.


However, with the ActiFit fabric, that lets the air flow through the material, as a guy that runs hot, playing in a hot room, in a hot VR headset, the chair is one of the cooler I’ve played in. It smells like the interior of a holiday rental car too I found really strange, but quite nice.
But now for that massive issue… When getting in and out of the chair, youre going to want to put your hands on the highest point for stability. But it just so happens that the highest point is those seat adjustment struts. Now, putting all of your weight on those WILL cause them to bend, like one of mine did. So, just bare that in mind if youre going to purchase this chair. Anyway

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