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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's only wrong because the Xbox controller is more ubiquitous than Nintendo's controllers and thus became the new standard. As someone who also grew up on Nintendo consoles, I remember it took me a while to adapt to it, but since I shifted towards PC gaming it became my new standard too

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's wrong because A comes before B and X comes before Y and English speakers/readers read from left to right.

I have never owned an X-Box in my life.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

At the end of the day they're just glyphs though. Maybe letters in a clockwise alphabetical order is the most intuitive for someone who has never used a controller before, but I've never seen anyone complain about the PS buttons layout after the initial "where the fuck is triangle" phase... except for that Japanese standard where X is "cancel" and O is "confirm"... because they deviate from what we are used to (and actually mimick the Nintendo layout regarding A and B placement, interestingly enough)

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

People don't complain about the order of the glyphs, because outside of videos games, there is no pre-existing, ubiquitous, order those glyphs will always appear in every single time you see them (which is constantly because they make up your written language).

A comes before B. A 3 year old can tell you that.

Square, x, circle, and triangle have no preset order.