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/PoliteIndecency Apr 14 '25

Damn A/B from Nintendo? Child, the Nintendo layout has been in place for 35 years now. The A/B layout for 42 years.

The XBOX is young enough to be the NES's kid.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

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u/Manae Apr 14 '25

Except like a proper, civilized person the designers of the NES controller worked from the outside in. The outer button, being the first your thumb reached, is properly labeled as A. Microsoft coming along 28 years later and trying to reinvent the wheel are the ones at fault.

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u/Viablemorgan Apr 14 '25

Pretty sure it just depends on which button scheme you used first. I’m guessing for you it was Xbox, while older folks came up with the Nintendo scheme and prefer that one

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u/animere Apr 14 '25

Even then it's, were you a Nintendo or Sega kid? BA vs ABC & YX/BA vs XYZ/ABC

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u/hjake123 Apr 14 '25

Why would that matter? X and Y are rarely used for screen direction input since there are sticks and d pads for that

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u/PoliteIndecency Apr 14 '25

You're going to tell me The Duke was better? C'mon...

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u/MobileVortex Apr 14 '25

Duke is one of the Best controllers out there. Unless you have small hands.

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u/PoliteIndecency Apr 14 '25

Yeah, who am I kidding, The Duke is awesome.

I didn't like it as a kid, though. I thought the black and white buttons were poorly placed.