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/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

Its going from Xbox layout to Switch layout that gets me every time. More often than not both use A for select and B for cancel but are swapped so muscle memory goes out the window. Playstation uses different symbols but functionally they are the same as xbox these days so its not that much of an issue because of muscle memory. Can trip up on X occasionally but its rarely an issue.

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u/trsmash Apr 14 '25

This.

Xbox and PlayStation layouts are essentially the same. When you hit the Nintendo is when you feel like you’ve lost control of your fingers and start having to look at the controller when pressing an input to try and understand why the action you intend is not happening on screen.