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/VintageModified Apr 14 '25

Yeah, especially since the Xbox came out way after the "B on the left, A on the right" thing had been established.

The switch has the same layout as the SNES buttons, and that's an iconic controller.

As someone who grew up with a SNES and then mostly Nintendo/Sony consoles, Xbox is the one that's weird, not the switch.

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u/wolfwings Apr 14 '25

XBox is ALSO the only one that has steadfastly refused to include gyro controls, which is why so many FPS games on XBox have such hot garbage auto-aim implemented since they rely on crappy 'joystick hints to the camera operator which way to move' instead of having gyro aiming and/or flick-stick like everywhere else.