Folks
Since we are talking about toys, let me frame my example in the context of toys. Please stay with me past the next sentence. Let’s compare trains to video games that aren’t resident on a handheld device (it works. your trains aren’t on your handheld).
In a video game you stare at the screen. Finger poised over a tactile button. Your eye sees THE GAME. Your finger is just a tool. It’s the same with model trains. You (I assume) want to enjoy what the train is doing. Your thumb is on the thumb wheel or hovered over the horn, or or or. You enjoy the train. Your thumb is a tool. In either situation, if you have to stare at the controller to do the thing, you miss the thing. Plain and simple. This isn’t a change from touching a throttle to being overwhelmed by 30 buttons. It’s the change from enjoying the train to being sucked into the screen.
