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It's because it is Japanese.

for some reason my brain automatically recognises the A button on a switch controller being on the right, so usually i don't have much of an issue. However, when a game gets ported over and doesn't change the traditional button layout to match, i feel it. looking at you, FF7 remake/intergrade ports.

I've switched between systems do many times, I've gotten muscle memory kicking in on system booths 😂

Same working with Mac and PC :)

They do it on purpose!!!!

X is on the bottom for playstations. I commonly jump between all three systems and it's not that hard. I'm old. The arthritis has slowed me down but I've still beaten every dark souls game ever made and most of the nightreign cracked out bosses.

I question myself all the dang time 😭😂

One thing PS did right was the symbols instead of letters

Ya think that's bad, the game I play the most has the Sprint and Crouch controls reversed from Every Other Game, literally, and sure you can change the buttons around in settings but when the act of crouching is called Shifting by everyone in the community... It feels wrong. The game? Minecraft

You get used to it.

Yeah, I don’t understand why there isn’t an option to remap those keys. I stopped using my Switch because of that

I randomly do that on every system it seems. Pause should always be right where the NES pause was.

nah dude, it's actually sick that it's your super power!

then there's your problem, no dedication

Just use PC😏

But if you're pro you can just memorize the xbox buttons by color.

Same issues when using an Xbox controller to play pc games meant for PlayStation controls

Jeez no wonder I'm always wrong

Damn Nintendo. The thing is they use the A button to proceed in most things also so you end up backing out of menus and cancelling things all the time!

This has never bothered me honestly, is it really that hard to adjust?

I've believed for a while that PC and XBox should follow Nintendo's precedent. If they refuse we should meet them with a flurry of green shells.

That's why they called it "switch" I guess. Maybe. There's other less wholesome options.

Look what I have. It has two different X buttons.

Switching between my Steam Deck and Switch making me feel like I got early onset Alzheimer’s.

All buttons should be re-assignable with mini LED outputs like stream deck. Enough with the proprietary buttons.

Same especially cause I use an Xbox controller for my pc and a Nintendo switch.

The pain of Multiconsole playstation being the only exception to that still sucks tho-

Huh...

Maddening

Getting rid of them different colored buttons was such crap. Also, I prefer the GameCube’s for having different shapes.

I had played the Battle for Bikini Bottom remake on switch Still a good game, but they made A the jump button and there was NO WAY TO CONFIGURE THE CONTROLS!

Very happy First Light lets you just turn off QTE. frequent Switch and Xbox user... My brain just can't switch modes like it used to.

Now imagine this but you often switch from games of the same licence but some on Switch and others on PC with a XBOX controller...

I love that the new 8bitdo lets me swap around the buttons however I want.

I played injustice with a ps4 controller on steam and all the inputs were xbox, but I never needed to look at the buttons in the qte’s, I think I’ve just spent too much of my time playing games lmao

Weird to see Nintendo and Microsoft are selling to the same mutants whose left thumb is bizarrely an inch longer than their right thumb 🤷🏼‍♂️ But Sony aren't selling to anyone anymore 😏

One reason I appreciate Batocera's North-south-east-west nomenclature for the buttons.

So for some reason if I’m playing on Nintendo Switch it “clicks.” If I try and use my Switch controller on my PC my brain crashes out trying to translate it.

The GameCube in hindsight worked perfectly for Nintendo's control scheme

campaign to change all those buttons to the arrow-like style of N-64's "C buttons", solving this issue once and for all

Actually its RPGs. But for some reason, Reload and Aim seem to be the best descriptors. On PS5 it is Square or L1

lol I relate

Best option is to just not play Nintendo

Jay, YES!!!!!! SO MUCH YES!!!!!!!!

I respect games that let you change the button prompts. Any game that gets QTE heavy gets put on PS promts because otherwise I'll completely fumble.

The button positions are not even consistent between different Nintendo controller generations

I wish they'd light up

Can’t relate because I’m only a Switch and PlayStation user lol

You have to think REALLY carefully before pressing X.

Nintendo layout or bust.

Now try mapped controls via steam on a game that doesn't support controllers at all. Better hope that muscle memory kicks in fast!

maybe it’s cross platform games wanting muscle memory to work across ps5 and switch versions?

Games should call them U, D, L, and R. (while directions are ⬆️, ⬇️, ⬅️, and ➡️)

They really should try to standarize that

Nintendo is wrong, Xbox is right. "But the Nintendo controller came first!" "In Japan they read right to left so the buttons make sense actually" I don't want to hear that shit. Nintendo is wrong and you are wrong

This is actually unbelievably consistent for Microsoft. Completely misunderstand the customer, make up your own logic as to how the UX should be, and _never_ seek feedback.

I know this isn't the same, but I've had two Chevys in a row. They switched up the volume and station change controls on the steering wheel. It's been 2 years and I still turn the music down when I want to change channels or switch channels in the middle of a kickass song. Burns me up!!! 🔥

Nintendo patented the layout a looooong time ago. I once worked on a PlayStation controller that had the thumb stick layout of an Xbox controller and lemme tell you… 🫪🔫

Yep, it’s all muscle memory now except for now Nintendo

Light, medium and high punches/kicks in a row!! Like keep making them like that for real

Never had to check button placement😅😅

Shaking my head and smiling. Take me back there!

Yep. The Dreamcast ditched the Saturn 3D controller’s Z & C buttons, and that carried on to XBox since MS helped a lot with the Dreamcast. Not sure *why* Sega dropped the 6-button layout though.

Tryna learn how to play Steam games that recommend controller using a PS4 controller is hell

I messed a trios in Fortnite trying to revive someone. A few seconds cost us the game.

I just remember the places of the button so i never really mix them up. Like blind typing.

Well I think the PS layout (1-2-3-4) makes the most sense out of all of them. I guess they could have started with 1 (⭕️) in the bottom position, so the X (2) would overlap

Yup. I use the 8BitDo controller on my PC, and it pops up with XBox controls in games, but it’s printed with the Switch labeling, and to boot in my brain I think of them as the PlayStation controls (e.g., cancel is “Circle”) 😂

If you're on steam it has an option that allows you to change the button prompts in games for Switch controllers (default is xbox layout)

That would drive me absolutely nuts especially if you can't map out the layout

Oh yeah, using DS4 gave me no end of grief in the past too. I always appreciate when devs let you manually set which controller you're using instead of trying to automatically detect it.

This lost me the original final boss in Sonic Frontiers 🥲 I had an 8BitDo with Nintendo-style face buttons, but my computer recognised it as an Xbox controller, so A = B & X = Y 🙃

The thing that irritates me is that you use the the A button the most on both consoles (in FPS games) but they’re in different positions. Takes me 30 minutes to reorient when I switch between them, lol…

Go home Nintendo you're drunk

I always bind them to the Nintendo layout whenever possible, and even then I still mix it up per game

Xbox did it right.

That’s just wrong

this is why im fond of Switch games that show the four face buttons and indicates which one you should be pressing in order to accommodate for dual joycon vs single joycon play

What i use for Playstation, PC and Switch

Ditch the Xbox - they just fired the devs that made the games what they are. Problem solved :)

I swap between Switch and Xbox and my brain is wired for Xbox way more so I'm always pressing the wrong thing on the Switch. Recently got a Retro Fighters Defender for my PS1 and PC and my brain struggles with the D-pad placement and the shapes instead of letters. Neat controller, though!

Four if you grew up with a Gamecube! It was the far right button on that one.

The order is swapped because of PlayStation devs in the West thinking "cross" meant confirm and circle meant back. Something tells me if cross and circle swapped colours, they wouldn't have made that mistake.

Microsoft copied Sega which is also a Japanese company. The Nintendo layout makes more sense because the button at the right is more accessible, so it should be the "main" one (A button).

when written horizontally, yes, but when written traditionally vertically it's top to bottom right to left

that had never occurred to me.

their thumbs aren't different though!

it’s the most popular generic name for a variable after all

Other than it’s been that was since Super Famicom/NES…

Yeah, that being first part is weird