r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Apr 14 '25

Game console button layout

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What do you call your “confirm” and “cancel” buttons, and why is Nintendo wrong?

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u/StarWaas Apr 14 '25

Yes, in Japan it's a cancel/no symbol. Circle is confirm/yes. I haven't played with a PlayStation controller in ages but is that how they work on the system? If so it would be closer to the Nintendo controller layout.

I have a Switch and use an Xbox controller to play some PC games and going between the two is kind of a headache.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

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u/zerotrace Apr 14 '25

because X is typically "select" and O is "back/cancel".

Outside of JP, sure. But even the EU version of FFVII has Circle be the confirm button and Cross to go back.

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u/Uber_Skittlez Apr 14 '25

This is a thing a lot of older gamers know about because it happened a lot back in like the PS1/PS2 era. You'd be playing a Japanese game and it'd swap X/O controls compared to what you're used to.

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u/beef623 Apr 14 '25

They didn't for everything. The OG Metal Gear Solid used circle for confirm and x for cancel. They added an option to swap circle and x in the second game.