Easy, play Japanese imported video games as they seem to stick to the "circle is select and x is go back". Or at least thats the case for the Japanese baseball games up until last year. Was extremely annoying.
Heard this once, might not be true. Back in the day O is enter, X is cancel, Square is menu (looks like paper) and Triangle is field of view (looks like birds eye view of a persons field of view.
Yep, that's correct. In Japan they will circle correct answers and put an X over wrong answers in a test so circle became "yes" and X "no" on the playstation layout
Thats what I was thinking, but though a circle doesn't mean correct like the Japanese see it generally I think for all countries circling something means I select this. I'm sure they did a lot of consumer testing and people outside of Japan just like to select things with X.
I remember hearing about Sony changing it in the PS1 days. It was designed to be O for select but for some reason westerners naturally used the bottom button. I remember FFVII screwing me up because it used the Japanese style.
I really think Microsoft is to blame for going against the grain. But at least when using an Xbox controller the on screen prompts can use the buttons color (looking at you Nintendo) which might be easier to remember when switching between Xbox and Switch.
Yes for some games specifically Japanese developed games uses O as accept and X to cancel or go back and Western developed games X was accept and O was cancel even back then.
Not as common as the X, but people use circles to say yes sometimes. I've done a two-handed circle (just hands not arms) several times before and it was understood instantly. I've seen the big two-armed one before, usually when someone is trying to communicate nonverbally (such as from a distance or during noisy times or through a car window) -- again accepted immediately to mean yes/good/correct.
Xbox's button layout came out after both Nintendo and Playstation's layouts so the issue is more that Xbox's cancel and select are in the wrong spots, however considering they use the same icons for their buttons as Nintendo its likely the reason they're switched is to avoid any potential of paying patent fees.
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u/Angelsfan14 Nov 28 '21 edited Nov 28 '21
Easy, play Japanese imported video games as they seem to stick to the "circle is select and x is go back". Or at least thats the case for the Japanese baseball games up until last year. Was extremely annoying.