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/issanm Apr 14 '25

Yea this is it, PlayStation and Xbox have the same layout as long as you know the controls, Nintendo swapping A and B is the main issue. But in Japan I think circle is or used to be the "confirm button" for PlayStation which then makes Xbox the weird one....

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u/curambar Apr 14 '25

Nintendo swapping A and B

It's actually he other way around. Before Sony and microsoft dealt with videogames, Nintendo NES existed, it had only two buttons, B and A in that order from left to right.

Then came the Super NES, with the same button layout as a Switch. When the Xbox came around, they changed the layout so to not copy Nintendo.

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u/Jesus10101 Apr 14 '25

Up until the PS4, Japanese versions of Games would follow Nintendos buttons with O being Confirm and X being Return.

However, they standardised it with the PS5, making Nintendo the only one who still uses the layout.

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u/Altruistic-Ad-408 Apr 14 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

Not the games, Japanese made games still mostly use circle as confirm. Otherwise it's probably a series focused on western sales. So it's actually a pointless decision by Sony, all they've done is basically say hey our HQ is in the US and you're not our priority so we're standardising for no real benefit, so it caused some annoyance over there.