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When we talk about the controller bindings, we always refer to the playstation setup. Like if you tell "you have to push triangle, or R2", everybody seems to know which one it is, without looking or even thinking
I don’t think this is true at all
It isn't, no. Windows PC games almost universally have the Xbox button names by default (because Microsoft), and I'm not sure, but I think that Nintendo systems have the same ones but placed differently?
Either way, the PlayStation ones are not the universal default by any stretch of the imagination.
Yeah I know that. But in my peer group of thirty-something gaming enthusiast we are all used to the PS1 button setup.
Nintendo flips A and B. It is one of the most minor, yet frustrating, swaps. So many times intending to hit "confirm" only to forget which layout I'm on and cancel/repeat dialogue.
The Nintendo layout is the original. Xbox flipped A and B and X and Y.
Maybe it is for console players, but my sole real exposure to controllers was the deck, and the button naming scheme is extremely confusing to me. Especially compared to the name of keyboard buttons (where press G is much more clear even if you're not familiar with keyboards)
I think you havent been anround when I was playing with my friends ?
I guess I wan’t aware you were friends with everybody
Ive never said something like this. I just told you how we (my thirty-something buddies and me) name the buttons ... Jeses
Fair, but in Japanese games circle is the confirm / ok button and X is the back / cancel button.. (I backed out of so many menus to trying to get used to this and then had to go through it again when I completed monster hunter and went back to playing regular PAL releases 😂)
Switched buttons are really annoying, I feel you :|
Which button is triangle on a normal controller?
No I don't. I don't have a PS controller and have never had a PlayStation, so this knowledge is much less universal than you seem to think.
It is universial among our friends ...