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It doesn't matter what symbols are on the buttons.
Until you played a PC port of it then it tell you to press A to say "Hey we should be friend" , but you use a Switch controller which makes your character said "[Sarcasm] Hey you should learn about Ligma".
that sounds a lot like fallout 4, and i don't think the player character ever gets to actually say anything funny in fallout 4
But the assumption with PC games usually would be xbox controller. Switch controllers don't have native USB support, so any PC usage is using the xbox controller protocol. So A is on the bottom, unless the game dev found some special way to check and detect for a swich controller specifically. The overwhelming majority don't.
Same thing with playstation controllers, although slightly more devs have found ways to check for them specifically.
I use a horipad-brand wired switch-style controller on PC. I use it because it fits better in my hands/ergonomics. I have a post-it note on my monitor reminding me of the button layout.
On the Switch, the buttons aren't just relabelled, their function is swapped, too.
Random factoid: Way back in the early PlayStation days, the O button was the default "accept/enter" buton, and the X was the "cancel/back" button, because that aligned with the national consensus of O = correct/confirm, and X = incorrect/cancel in Japan. But when the console was introduced in North America and Europe, they started remapping the X and O to align with other western consoles using X, like the Xbox. That said, I distinctly remember early PS1 games being a sort of wild west of which button would be confirm, so I suspect it was also done in response to western gamers struggling to adapt.
other way around. the xbox was five years after the playstation, and used A for confirm, like nintendo's consoles. the snes has A on the right, so the PS has O on the right. but when they released in europe, they chose to use X for confirm, which is on the bottom. so the xbox has A on the bottom.
This. And as far as I know, PS still has that split between Japan and international release. It's probably been about a decade, but the last time I played an import JP PS game, O was still confirm, X was still cancel.
Yep! The PS5 was the first console to standardise X as confirm in all regions. Can't say whether the game devs followed suit, though I'd imagine Sony has some licensing clause to force compliance on that.
Thanks! Guess the stuff I read 20+ years ago got a little jumbled in long-term storage.
it happens. it's not one of those things that's important to keep around.