The symbols on the PlayStation controller

[George Lucas]

You would actually press Start to start the game.
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It's a mode toggle into and out of game, between game and menu. Pause is just another form of menu/non-game, but it's weird to have the button called that when "pause" isn't applicable in all games. However all games do have a Start.

The modern equivalent of toggling between content and menu is the 3 lines. That's fine as design language for an app, but applying that to a game that already has a better concept is lame and gay.



But Japanese is read from right to left. If you have some symbols (letters) in a list, and you tell a Japanese designer to write out that list, the first on the right is A, and the next one to its left is B. Who cares how those gaijin do it, why do they want Jap games anyway?

Nintendo did rename the Start button to Start/Pause for the Gamecube, and then it became the ‘+’ button.

 

[The Masked Sneed]

You can blame the Dreamcast for putting A where B was on the SNES controller. The Xbox is the same because it started as a Dreamcast follow-up.

Really, it goes all the way back to the Genesis. A B C. The six button controller added a new row, X Y Z. So,  X Y Z
                                                A B C
This way kept on the Saturn, but with the decision for the Dreamcast to only have 4 face buttons, they simply chopped off Z and C.
Now, If you want to be really pedantic, you can blame the Master System* for labeling it's buttons as 1 2, as opposed to the NES's B A.

*(but not the Mark III, since its buttons were unmarked. Yet another genius SoA decision)

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Triangle
Circle
Square
X

Only faggots call it cross.

Calling it cross or calling PS1 the PSX is pretentious.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

calling PS1 the PSX is pretentious.

It was called the PSX. Sorry for remembering a time before the jews started putting black women in video games.

 

[Asian tech support]

These strange symbols are indicative of devil worship and gay sex. Turn in your playstation for a praystation, young man.

 

[skykiii]

Really, it goes all the way back to the Genesis. A B C.

I always thought it was genius that the Genesis got a Michael Jackson game.

Cuz ya see...

A-B-C! It's easy as 1-2-3! I'd settle for Do-Re-Me....

Calling it cross or calling PS1 the PSX is pretentious.

It was called the PSX. Sorry for remembering a time before the jews started putting black women in video games.

Exactly. Sorry Ness but this is like saying its pretentious to call Mega Man... Mega Man, when its literally his fucking name.

Also, the Sega Saturn had media labels for its buttons,

What are you talking about? Those look like ABC to me. Easy as 123.

Shame that both Sony and Microsoft put their buttons in the wrong orientation. Nintendo got it right.

This fucks me up so often when I either play an X-Box or else play a PC game that has X-Box button display but no option for Playstation or Switch. I can't count how many times a game has said "press the Y button" and I think I am pressing it, until I realize it means the Y button on the X-Box.

I wish there was some universal fix for this, but I'm not sure how you'd do it.

You never have to stretch your thumb to the right, which is the most unnatural direction to stretch your right thumb in that direction. Don't believe me? Try pretending Square is the primary button and sensing how weird it feels to stretch to the other three.

Like, you kinda make sense but I have to agree with the other guy... I guess because I grew up with stuff like the SNES but I just don't see this "its hard/uncomfortable to stretch to" thing you're talking about.

These strange symbols are indicative of devil worship and gay sex. Turn in your playstation for a praystation, young man.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Exactly. Sorry Ness but this is like saying its pretentious to call Mega Man... Mega Man, when its literally his fucking name.

That's not the same. According to Wikipedia, "Early advertising prior to the console's launch in North America referenced PSX, but the term was scrapped before launch."

Clinging to some brief early advertising is your prerogative, but the actual released console was never called PSX, and was retroactively called PS1, which makes the most sense.

 

[George Lucas]

That's not the same. According to Wikipedia, "Early advertising prior to the console's launch in North America referenced PSX, but the term was scrapped before launch."

Clinging to some brief early advertising is your prerogative, but the actual released console was never called PSX, and was retroactively called PS1, which makes the most sense.

Wikipedia is fucking gay. PSX is the proper abbreviation for it. PS1 refers to the PSOne, the slim variant released after the PS2 for a discount.

 

[George Lucas]

What are you talking about? Those look like ABC to me. Easy as 123.

Look closely. They are above the buttons. The first gen US controllers (which everyone hated) don’t have them.

 

[Slav Power]

IIRC the convention was like this:
Circle and X, the nip way of doing Yes and No
Box, meant to represent a container like the inventory
Triangle, meant to represent up, was often used as the back button in menus

All of which of course was to not get sued by Nintendo for their totally-not-a-SNES controller.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

That's not the same. According to Wikipedia, "Early advertising prior to the console's launch in North America referenced PSX, but the term was scrapped before launch."

Clinging to some brief early advertising is your prerogative, but the actual released console was never called PSX, and was retroactively called PS1, which makes the most sense.

Listen to your niggerpedia all you want, you had playstation magazines called PSX[whatever] that covered PSX games. Go back to (((shucking and jiving))) our vidya.

 

[The Cheese Aisle]

Square is square because it looked like a menu iirc

 

[Mad_Dog]

Triangle = Trinity
Circle = Eucharist
Cross = Cross
Square =Tabernacle

 

[Lone MacReady II]

That's not the same. According to Wikipedia, "Early advertising prior to the console's launch in North America referenced PSX, but the term was scrapped before launch."

Clinging to some brief early advertising is your prerogative, but the actual released console was never called PSX, and was retroactively called PS1, which makes the most sense.

According to wikipedia niggers fought in sengoku era Japan as samurai, just because a limey jew self-sourced and edited his own fanfiction page.

 

[skykiii]

Clinging to some brief early advertising is your prerogative, but the actual released console was never called PSX, and was retroactively called PS1, which makes the most sense.

Dude I lived thru the era. Magazines, fans, websites etc. always called it the PSX in abbreviation. Yes it came basically from an early name for the console but whatever. Some jonny-come-lately does not get to come in and rewrite history.