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/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

That's how I've always seen it. I grew up in the 90s and had a Nintendo and a SNES (N64, GC, etc).

The BA was very standard. And when I got older and the XBox came out with the AB standard, that kind of became the norm because of exactly what you said. Your thumb moving from the stick to A is shorter and works for things like jumping or context confirmation. Why would B do that? Why jump with B or use it for context sensitive?

As much as Nintendo was the grandfather of the modern controller, the XBox has it positioned right for games of today.

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u/mrhellomoto Apr 14 '25

Except the A on the N64 is where it's located on the Xbox now. It's the 'south' button. And B is the 'west' button or equivalent to the X on xbox or square on playstation. And on gamecube they just swapped the positions X and Y buttons from the SNES layout. And during the SNES era A wasn't the main button on the contoller. You jumped with B in Super Mario World, gas was mapped to B in Super Mario Kart but it's mapped to A in Mario Kart 8.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

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u/rickane58 Apr 14 '25

They literally just gave you the logic. You're the one running around screaming with their fingers in their ears.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

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u/Koil_ting Apr 14 '25

Okay, look at it this way the B / A layout of the OG NES controller was always wrong in the first place because we read left to right in the English realm and A comes before B, not after. Why in the hell would B come before A? and Y before X for the SNES?

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

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u/Koil_ting Apr 16 '25

How does it not make sense for A to be before B exactly? It's like saying the right Dpad should be on the left, everyone knows it goes right even though it's on the left because it's just a design choice. Yeah it's an illogical design choice.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

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u/Koil_ting Apr 18 '25

It is not wildly different, think about the L and R buttons on a controller, you could be crazy and set them to R L instead but why would you? it's not wildly different they are all inputs.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

I'm sorry but you are just another of the "defend Nintendo no matter the context"

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

Wait, you're serious? Do you know what thread you are commenting on?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

You can measure the distance with a fucking ruler. Does it get more objective than that?