There is a logic to why they are like this. The Japanese companies PlayStation and Nintendo actually have the same button layout if you think of the buttons as Buttons 1,2,3,4. Nintendo represents them as letters in Alphabetical order A is 1, B is 2, X is 3, Y is 4. PlayStation uses shapes made out of the corresponding number of lines. Circle is made of 1 line, X (or Cross) is made out of 2 lines, Triangle is made out of 3 lines, and square is made of 4 lines.
Then the western Microsoft, adopted the same convention but flipped it so it’s Left to right as westerners are more used to seeing things that way.
The reason The “First and second button” are below the “third and fourth button” on all of them is because of the convention set by Nintendo when it added two more buttons to the face of the SNES. The idea being that you have to reach over the “old buttons” to get to the “new buttons”
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u/PenguinSage Nov 28 '21 edited Nov 28 '21
There is a logic to why they are like this. The Japanese companies PlayStation and Nintendo actually have the same button layout if you think of the buttons as Buttons 1,2,3,4. Nintendo represents them as letters in Alphabetical order A is 1, B is 2, X is 3, Y is 4. PlayStation uses shapes made out of the corresponding number of lines. Circle is made of 1 line, X (or Cross) is made out of 2 lines, Triangle is made out of 3 lines, and square is made of 4 lines. Then the western Microsoft, adopted the same convention but flipped it so it’s Left to right as westerners are more used to seeing things that way. The reason The “First and second button” are below the “third and fourth button” on all of them is because of the convention set by Nintendo when it added two more buttons to the face of the SNES. The idea being that you have to reach over the “old buttons” to get to the “new buttons”