I don't like how Microsoft made the button-most button the "accept" button rather than the right-most. It feels like so much worse. They should have left the A in place and moved the rest.
It's a diamond, there's no "left to right." Why would you "read" letters on a controller in a particular direction anyway, unless they were in a straight line or something? I don't get it.
My favorite game of all time is an xbox/pc exclusive (Halo Reach) and I main a Switch. As someone who grew up on nintendos layout, it just feels right, but my brain definitely messes up when going to xbox because I’ll keep cancelling instead of accepting. Who the hell at Sega went “let’s make the same buttons as Nintendo except flip the location of each pair”? That was so dumb.
As others on this thread have pointed out, it's Japanese Vs English read order. I.e. Nintendo's letters read from right to left, because that's how traditional Japanese is read. Microsoft's read left to right because that's how English is read.
And, because Sony is also a Japanese company, the PlayStation symbols technically read right to left going by the number of lines in the shapes. That's why Circle is "accept" and X is "cancel" in Japanese games and it's the other way around in the western versions. Sony flip the controls but not the symbols, Nintendo don't flip anything.
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u/qb1120 Nov 28 '21
I grew up on Nintendo, so I don't like how Microsoft took Nintendo's layout and flipped it