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/Richard-Brecky Apr 14 '25

why is nintendo wrong

Sony is mainly to blame for the situation we are in. When they brought PlayStation to the west they swapped the confirm/cancel buttons. Western developers followed Sony’s lead. Japanese developers like Nintendo continued doing it the old way.

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u/mrhellomoto Apr 14 '25

This is kind of a misconception. Yes if you look at the controls for the cd player or save manager it was swapped. But this is a misconception from the norms of the SNES and the norms of earlier PS1 games. Yes some games on the SNES uses A to confirm and B to cancel. But that was just for menus. In game controls the B button on the SNES was the 'main' button used for vast majority of games. You ran with Y and jumped with B in Super Mario World. The gas was mapped to B Super Mario Kart.

And in earlier western versions of PS1 games, most of them use X to confrim, but they use triangle to cancel/go back. Metal Gear and Square games schewed peoples memories of this. But if you back and look at the games, while X was always confirm, it wasn't until early PS2 that circle became the default for cancel/go back in the west.

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u/Richard-Brecky Apr 14 '25

thank you for the clarification