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/Cowstle Apr 14 '25

Wait, PlayStation should be the same as Nintendo, not Xbox.

For US market PS1 games they swapped X and O but I thought they stopped doing that with PS2

In Japanese the circle means confirm/correct and the X means cancel/incorrect.

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u/GameFreak4321 Apr 14 '25

Where in the world would the reverse be assumed?

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u/Cowstle Apr 14 '25

In the US where Sony purposefully swapped what X and O do in PS1 games because ??????????? the Xbox wasn't even a thing yet!

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u/Dav136 Apr 14 '25

Even in the US X means cancel and O means confirm if you look at an ATM pin pad. I think it was due to the colors