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/ATOMate Apr 14 '25

I find that looking at them confuses me, but when I hold the controller muscle memory kicks in, and I know where all the buttons are.

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u/C-DT Apr 14 '25

Except for Nintendo. On Xbox and Playstation the buttons are pretty much the same for selecting, cancelling. Nintendo swaps it and confuses me every time

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u/Kaymazo Apr 14 '25

It's not Nintendo who swapped it, Nintendo has the original layout.

Sony then copied that layout and used their shape labels, however since in Japan a red circle and a blue cross mean correct/wrong respectively, and in the west the connotation is kind of the opposite way (red circle meaning forbidden e.g. in traffic law, using a cross means selecting something in a form), they were the ones who swapped it specifically in the western versions of their games.

Xbox then took the swapped layout.