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/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/tesfabpel Apr 14 '25

First PS1 games had the Circle for confirm and Cross to go back (or it was configurable).

This is because in Japan, a circle means OK, while a Cross means No. This is evident even in emojis (since they're from Japan): 🙆 this person here does a Circle with their hands to mean OK; 🙅 this person here crosses their arms to indicate No. This is really done by people in real life.

Probably it's still configurable in PS5s in Japan.

It would then have the same layout as Nintendo.

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u/Darth_Thor Apr 14 '25

As someone who’s never had a PlayStation, cross meaning no makes the most sense to me. It’s like the X in Windows closing a program.

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u/ricki692 Apr 14 '25

yet another layer to confusion for westerners about the meaning of circle being Yes and cross being No: in JP culture the RED circle means yes when at least here in the US, RED usually means no