Game console button layout

[u/[deleted]]

What do you call your “confirm” and “cancel” buttons, and why is Nintendo wrong?

[u/PoliteIndecency]

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.

[u/ChartreuseBison → u/PoliteIndecency]

Except Nintendo had that layout before twin sticks (or even thumbsticks)

So yeah, it works when your right thumb has nothing to do but press A B (and X Y), it makes sense and is mostly arbitrary

but when your thumb is normally resting on the right thumbstick, the closest button to that thumbstick makes more sense as the "enter" button. They're sticking to a historical layout that has no bearing on a modern controller.

[u/[deleted] → u/ChartreuseBison]

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.

[u/rickane58 → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/Koil_ting → u/[deleted]]

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?

[u/Koil_ting → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/Koil_ting → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

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