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X is confirm because that's how you fill out forms. You draw an X through the boxes for the options that are true or what you want, and then you sign your name next to the X. There's no meaning to the circle, so cancel/no can just be whatever.
X is confirm because historically X marks the spot on treasure maps etc. O is used as no since the N is just silent so it’s NO
>O is used as no since the N is just silent so it’s NO
kek
>the N is just silent so it’s NO
Huh?
awfully nipponese of you.
You circle the things you want and x out the things you don't.
I love Xenosaga
death stranding every button is yes
dunno what the hell they were thinking trying to make every face button an action button
It’s a japanese console.
Japanese use a red circle as correct and a blue cross as incorrect, so it was used as yes and no
counterintuitive and overly-specific. circle is universally understood to stand for a positive symbol, and X is universally understood to be a negative symbol
spbp
shut up
How about x is accept and o is cancel because that's how it's been and who gives a fuck about the reason
It's only that way outside of Japan.
>Japanese use a red circle as correct and a blue cross as incorrect
The color scheming is confusing in the West because we view red as a negative color and blue as a positive one. When you're in school, teachers always use a red pen to mark wrong answers and a lot of them do it by circling what you got wrong in red. Stop signs and stop lights are also red in the West. So right off the bat a Westerner would look at the colors and associate the red button with wrong/bad/stop/cancel.
There's also some cultural symbolism of X being a confirmation or a powerful symbol:
X marks the spot
X goes first in tic-tac-toe
X to fill out forms
"X-factor"
Xtreme (PS1 was introduced in the late 90s after all)
so it's like the imperial system, nobody gives a shit outside america
X marks the spot
Circle is red like a stop sign
user?
>so it's like the imperial system, nobody gives a shit outside america
On the contrary, other countries are eternally seething at our use of the imperial system and can't bring themselves to avoid bringing it up at every opportunity. It's America who doesn't give a fuck about the metric system.
Beyond all the autistic "colors and shapes have meanings in the west", the x is where your thumb naturally rests on the controller, so it makes sense that it would be the default yes.
>red = bad
Anyone who mentions that always ignores the fact that blue != good, and in that case Triangle would have to be Confirm.
It's actually
>red = warm = good
>blue = cold = bad
This, anyone saying otherwise is thinking too hard about it.
>the x is where your thumb naturally rests on the controller
How fucking short is your thumb?
It's not about the color or the shape you absolute retards. It doesn't matter if it's a PS, Xbox or Ninintendo controller. The 6 o'clock button is confirm and the 3 o'clock or 12 o'clock button is cancel.
Are you one of those people who presses the button with the tip of your thumb instead of your knuckle?
>1995
>late 90s
The Square is map and the Triangle I forgot what it means
This is the way it was intended to and should have been. Controller designers said it themselves, and several PS1 games used it. Makes sense too, since the confirm button was also on the right on the SNES controller. Which dev fucked it up and made the bottom button the new standard for confirming?
>wrong answers are marked in red
>stop signs are red
>stop lights are red
>buttons to turn off machines are red
>warning signs are red
>emergency vehicles have red lights
People aren't thinking of fucking temperatures when the context is the color of a button on a controller.
???
Triangle was a hint system, it represents the pyramid's natural power to communicate with God.
>Jap devs still doing this
Two nukes weren't enough.
And why the fuck would you not do that? It's more reliable. If you're pressing cross with your knuckle, that also means you have to press square with the soft part of your thumb, which is already 2 retarded things you're doing at once.
>Makes sense too, since the confirm button was also on the right on the SNES controller.
SNES games also frequently used the bottom button (B) for confirm and the left button (Y) for cancel. You always had to test whether a game would use A or B for confirm.
>the other color still completely ignored
Don't reply to me again.
I know games that used B to confirm and X to cancel but what games used Y to cancel?
Point of view. Like the vision cones in MGS.
This is the only way to hold cuntroller