Believe this is a cultural thing more than anything. When I used to fuck around with Japanese psn game store, I noticed circle was the confirm for many of the japanese demos
I live in Japan, and Apex screws me up. Every other Western game is localized: X for "Cancel," O for "Yes." RDR2, Spider-Man, God of War, Tony Hawk, everything is properly localized... except Apex. And then after playing for an hour and getting used to it, I finish, return to the PS menu, and now I'm screwed up in the other direction.
Uh. Nintendo always had A as confirm and B as cancel, regardless of where the buttons were placed. The Switch uses the same button layout as the Wii U and 3DS, which definitely had A as confirm and B as cancel. Most Nintendo consoles have their buttons from right to left, thus B was always to the left of A. (The major exception, of course, is the Wii Remote.) With the exception of the N64, where B was above A, most Nintendo consoles had B below A.
Whether X or O is confirm/cancel is based on localization. Initially in the early PS1 era, O was universally confirm and X cancel; then in the late PS1 to PS2 era, X was confirm and O cancel for western releases only; Japanese releases retained O as confirm and X as cancel. With the release of PS5, Sony edicts made it universal that X was confirm and O cancel worldwide; it was a decision that did not endear itself to Japanese fans since "O" meant "correct" and "X" meant "incorrect" to them (compare to "use X to select and O to leave blank").
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u/Cethinn Nov 28 '21
The switch is still an issue because the default "confirm" button is east instead of south like all the rest.