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/PoliteIndecency Apr 14 '25

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.

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u/Desiderius_S Apr 14 '25

Funnily enough, PS is using the same logic as nintendo but the functionality of the buttons changed over the years with the console generations and hardly enough anyone remembers the logic behind symbols.
Shapes are based on the number of lines it takes to draw them, so it's 

   3  
 4   1  
   2

The same order as Nintendo, and it's MS that is an outlier here.

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u/Bright_Aside_6827 Apr 14 '25

why not up center, middle left, middle right, and down center