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minus-squareneoman4426@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up22·6 days agoInterestingly, the Playstation one officially isn’t the letter X, it’s “Cross” according to Sony. But pretty much no one ever actually uses that name.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-26 days agoSony (via PS5) also finally standardized X Accept and O Back globally. It was backwards in Japan because X meant No and O meant Yes.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 hours agoi mean if you’ve never used a playstation the same would presumably be true all over the world, “cancel” is symbolized by X
minus-squarealk@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 days agoI remember on the ps2 it was just as common to use triangle as the “back” button
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days agoOriginally, O was meant to be accept, and X was meant to be discard/etc., but this Japanese cultural artifact got lost in translation.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 days agoMy brain and muscle memory from childhood are so PlayStation-coded, that I’ll sometimes get tripped up using my XBone controller on PC and hit the wrong button when doing QTEs lol
minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoThat makes a lot of sense. They just decided “screw it. Westerns read backwards so like yeah probably everything else is backwards too?”
Interestingly, the Playstation one officially isn’t the letter X, it’s “Cross” according to Sony. But pretty much no one ever actually uses that name.
Sony (via PS5) also finally standardized X Accept and O Back globally. It was backwards in Japan because X meant No and O meant Yes.
i mean if you’ve never used a playstation the same would presumably be true all over the world, “cancel” is symbolized by X
I remember on the ps2 it was just as common to use triangle as the “back” button
Originally, O was meant to be accept, and X was meant to be discard/etc., but this Japanese cultural artifact got lost in translation.
My brain and muscle memory from childhood are so PlayStation-coded, that I’ll sometimes get tripped up using my XBone controller on PC and hit the wrong button when doing QTEs lol
That makes a lot of sense. They just decided “screw it. Westerns read backwards so like yeah probably everything else is backwards too?”