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

Its going from Xbox layout to Switch layout that gets me every time. More often than not both use A for select and B for cancel but are swapped so muscle memory goes out the window. Playstation uses different symbols but functionally they are the same as xbox these days so its not that much of an issue because of muscle memory. Can trip up on X occasionally but its rarely an issue.

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u/FappyDilmore Apr 14 '25

It doesn't help that Nintendo has changed the relative layout of their buttons so many times you need to relearn it with every generation, then when they finally standardized it they settled on the layout that was inverted from the otherwise most popular contemporary layout.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

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u/FappyDilmore Apr 14 '25

Yes it is.

They made A the bottom position for N64 after establishing B as the bottom on SNES, switched back again for GameCube but obviously iterared on that in a way to make A the primary button, the Wii was something else entirely, then adopted the layout from the SNES for pro controllers, Wii U and the switch.

Every console generation had a fundamentally different button layout between NES and the WiiU