ok but lrt is true though and it's complete bullshit and nonsensical that it was changed internationally. it's a massive pet peeve of mine regarding playstation it like legit upsets me every time i think about it LOL
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how the hell does X. CROSS. the thing you get on answers on tests to signify you got them wrong. the thing you click on to close a browser window. equate to YES. CONFIRM. GOOD JOB. PROCEED. why would you do that. what the fuck is wrong with you. don't piss me off
i feel so seen. most of my childhood PSP games were in JP so i was very accustomed to 〇 being the confirm button. imagine my confusion when i found out it was Ｘ in other regions...
I'm trying to come up with an idea of why they'd do that and I'm getting nothing. I was gonna say it's because it's the bottom-most button but the SNES, the thing the ps1 is modeled after, had the B button, which is typically "back", on the bottom. So I have no clue
In fact, the SNES's "confirm" button is exactly where the playstation's "confirm" button is. so what the hell. I'm used to it now because I grew up with it but now that I'm thinking about it it makes no sense
I Always wondered why the switch even happened. It's not like Xbox was a thing which did have the A button at the bottom. Nintendo had A on the right and Playstation had confirm on the right.
- the 360 ver. was often developed first for western multiplats, so the intended purposes of ps face buttons were discarded during 7th gen to keep controls standard
- we tend to associate the color red with “no”, so western releases of jp games swapped x and o’s functions in menus
it genuinely bothers me so much because it messes with my nintendo muscle memory AND IT WOULDN'T IF THEY JUST KEPT IT THE SAME AS IT IS IN JAPAN and now we're so deep into it that we can never change it
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- the 360 ver. was often developed first for western multiplats, so the intended purposes of ps face buttons were discarded during 7th gen to keep controls standard
- we tend to associate the color red with “no”, so western releases of jp games swapped x and o’s functions in menus