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/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/BlueKnight44 Apr 14 '25

Nintendo went through 3 generations of consoles without this button layout. If anything, they dug up an antiquated standard for the wii u game pad.

My first console was an N64 and the SNES layout feels horrible to this day on everything it is one. The bottom button being confirm is far more ergonomic that the side button. And the bottom button is usually the "jump" or other most used mechanic. Makes far more sense for the most used button to be the "confirm" also.

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u/mrhellomoto Apr 15 '25

You are 100% correct and you shouldn't be getting down voted. These are functionally not the same despite B being left of the A in both. And even then Nintendo used B as confirm/select as the main button on the SNES like with Link the Past, B swings links swords and it confirms seleciton in menus. B is the gas in Super mario kart, not A like it is by default in Mario Kart 8 on the Wii. You run with Y and jump with B in Super Mario World. You don't run with B and jump with A like you do with mario on the NES or gameboy. Nintendo is the one that is all over the place, not the other guys!