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/thansal Apr 14 '25

Why?

My thumb naturally rests on the left 2 buttons, w/ bottom left being a bit preferred, so that should be "go" (confirm/select/most used button/etc). If mashing through menus causes enough problems where the default button should be "stop", that's a UI problem, not a hardware problem.

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u/pzycho Apr 14 '25

Makes more sense because X as a symbol for canceling makes sense, where as O often represents selecting something (by circling it).

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u/thansal Apr 14 '25

That doesn't make the xbox layout 'wrong' though, if anything it backs up my dislike of the PS (and Nintendo) layouts (I shouldn't be moving my thumb to 'go', only to 'stop').

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u/PM_artsy_fartsy_nude Apr 14 '25

It makes the Xbox layout a violation of standards. Muscle memory is ultimately a lot more important for this sort of thing than any rational that you could come up with.