joysticks

You add auto-aim to compensate for the inaccuracy inherent in gamepad joysticks, but the vehicle sections become easier.

For other people the joysticks and the whole portable game machine look might be the selling point.

Near a harbor, ships with azipods or other similar rotating propulsion units are steered by joysticks instead of wheels.

As only a very casual amateur at KSP, what's the use case for multiple joysticks?

We can't use two joysticks like a tank because it would sheer the rubber from your tires, and maintaining independent throttle control for two sides of a car is silly and unneeded.

They also sold adapted Atari joysticks which could be used with their games.

Isometric joysticks are often cited as more difficult to use due to the lack of tactile feedback provided by an actual moving joystick.

For windows, there's no issue adding support for Logitech G25, G27, F710, Microsoft gamepads and Joysticks (the best joysticks ever made), and several other wheels like Fanatec.

Buttons, keys, joysticks, sliders…anything but the screen was the focus of phones There where popular touch screen which had only a few buttons.

Also I don't get why they switched to joysticks instead of the traditional yoke.

Because two joysticks is overkill for two degrees of freedom.

There were joysticks with buttons way before the NES.

Of course, you know what else often doesn't use "two joysticks like a tank" -- actual tanks.

Have an "averaging error" sound, light up, whatever if the two joysticks have inputs which are too far from one another to make sense.

Joysticks were really funky back in the old blacklit arcades, now imagine putting that on your face/head.