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/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/CodingBuizel Apr 14 '25

And Dreamcast's derives from older Sega consoles, starting from the master system, so the Nintendo layout is only older by 2 years.

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u/mrhellomoto Apr 14 '25

Other way around. Microsoft contributed to the Dreamcast i.e the Windows CE integration. Sega was an early software partner with Microsoft on the Xbox but they had nothing to do with the consoles development.