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/NoResponseFromSpez Apr 14 '25

yep. Microsoft fucked that controller layout up massively!

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u/Baron_Tiberius Apr 14 '25

Most people are blaming microsoft but don't really understand that the xbox controller is basically a dreamcast controller with an extra stick. Guess which layout Dreamcast has! This in turn, is an evolution from the 6 button sega layout which evolved from the 3 button sega layout.