Honestly, I don't even really know where they are unless I'm looking at them. The games that show all four face buttons and just highlight the one I need to push are the ones that really work for me.
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Meanwhile, I'm annoyed by the shift from Y/triangle to B/circle for navigating back in menus. Nintendo, as far as I know (console ownership gap between SNES and Switch), kept their button assignments for those consistent.
lol not at all. Your gap of skipping N64 and GameCube misses the inconsistencies perfectly. Have a look at images of the N64 and GameCube controllers. 😄
The Switch is the console that went back to the roots of the SNES.
I vaguely remember playing on GameCubes at the dentist's office back then, could never figure out button mappings for the games 😂
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I remember the PlayStation doing that since the PS2. I had like 30 or so games which had X for accept and O for back. But then I played a remastered Uncharted on my PS4 and was utterly confused to see triangle for back.
this lack of a standard layout is annoying
the xbox style layout, which a lot of pc games such as Hollow Knight expect, is not something im used to, especially with yes and no buttons (a/b) being reversed compared to nintendo switch
and a lot of games dont have good remapping
especially with yes and no buttons (a/b) being reversed compared to nintendo switch
It's also reversed on Playstation. Games use "X" for "yes" and "O" for "cancel". But only in the west, it's reversed in Japan.
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The only layout I hate is Nintendos. At least with Xbox and PlayStation it’s:
A = X.
B = O.
Y = Triangle
X = Square
With Nintendo, they turn it all slightly and I absolutely hate it. It’s the only one that I have to retrain my brain/coordination for. When I play a Nintendo game through emulation (fuck Nintendo), I notice immediately when the controls didn’t properly migrate from my other games because now all of the sudden A is going back a menu. -.-
No they didn’t - it’s the same sequence.
A = circle (1 line )
B = cross (2 lines)
X = triangle (3 lines)
Y = square (4 lines)
Xbox broke with convention.
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In all seriousness I wouldn't be surprised if this is purely a legal precaution.
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Swap them all to:
---- N
W------E
-----S
I'm pretty sure that Nintendo created this problem.
They used a/b/x/y on the SNES. The Genesis, it's direct competitor, had a/b/c.
Then Xbox copied them and Sony copied them... But each had to have a slight variation because Nintendo being Nintendo, they'd get sued into next week....
I definitely blame Nintendo for this one.
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Purple 'Q' button, Orange 'R' button, Magenta 'S' button, and the Black 'Horseshoe' button.
I've got a (non-brand) playstation controller, but for some reason, Steam thinks it's an XBox controller and puts the XBox button prompts in games instead. I had a (non-brand) XBox controller before, so my muscle memory thankfully knows the buttons and I don't actually have to look.