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Why are X & O buttons reversed on Japanese controllers? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago by SilentStriker@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I know in the Japanese version of the PS4 by default that its:

X: キャンセル / 戻る [Cancel / Back]
O: 選択 / 確認 [Select / Confirm]

While in most consoles globally: the X button is used to select or confirm something while the O button is for cancel, basically the sequences are inverted. I know this because I've played games on a Japanese PS, even in GTA V (the imputs for either button have been adjusted on that version).

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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As others have already mentioned:

Japanese convention is that O means yes (like circling an answer on a test) and X means no (like crossing something out).
It’s a Japanese console so actually it’s the rest of the world that flipped it.

Another point to consider is that Japanese is typically read from right-to-left, so the ‘first’ button is O. See also: Nintendo controllers, which still use ABXY in a ‘backwards’ arrangement, with A on the right.

As for why western developers decided to flip the controls? No idea who started it or why, but it’s become the global convention. That said, I remember a lot of PS1 games using triangle as the back button.