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In a face button diamond, which button should be "Accept"?
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Remember the Gamecube controller where the accept button was just this huge green A button, so big you could headbutt it to signify your confirmation?
bottom obviously. But for some reason I intuitively have learned to hit right in Nintendo games.
I see. But look at the bright side: both confirmation buttons on Xbox and Nintendo are A!
Unless you're playing Dark Souls Remastered on Switch. Then it's B.
I literally don't care which, but man do I wish both this and button naming / colors (especially for ABXY controllers) were standarized across consoles and regions. Who does it serve to have them all be completely different on each main console? In the end the only controller I instinctively know which button is which is PS because they're shapes instead of letters.
I absolutely CANNOT do QTE's on switch for this reason. As a right->left reader it confuses me to no end that B and Y are to the LEFT of A and X
It really isn't a diamond to your thumb. It's a square.
If you're going to be pedantic about it, it's a rhombus. A square has right angles and sides that are equal in length, and that button disposition has neither.
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And if you're going to be pedantic, the sides of that shape are equal in length (which is one of the requirements for a rhombus)
Parallelogram -- pairs of sides are parallel
Rectangle -- parallelogram with all right angles
Rhombus -- parallelogram with sides equal length
Square -- rectangle + rhombus
The point is to your thumb it's not top, bottom, left, right; it's top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right.
A - Accept
B - Back
◯ - Affirmation, correct, OK (Circles are commonly viewed as being a symbol for positivity, perfection, connection, and divinity across many cultures world wide.)
✕ - Refutation, wrong, NG (Similarly this symbol shares similar meanings across many cultures. It's used to portray death, poison, evil, in math it's the symbol of ambiguity or uncertainty. Wires are crossed, they are not connected.)
Especially in terms of why Sony chose those symbols they should conform to that placement as there is a greater chance that the symbolism would be understood world wide. Plus that placement feels better because when I hold a controller B, ✕ is on the bottom which when held flat is toward my back. If I am backing out of something I would go the opposite way I am facing.
Prior to a 4 button format it made sense for the Left button (B) to be Refutation and the right (A) to be Affirmation because most languages are read left to right. This means it is generally ingrained for most people that going left means going backwards and going right means going forwards. If you're in a menu and you wish to go forward with your decision, press A, (The right side button). Would you like to return to where you were? Press B to go back (The left side button). This means the Left side button for affirmation is still functionally sound and likely to be understood easier as the button that should progress you through a menu or confirm a decision. The bottom button takes back because of what I previously stated - but also because it is in the placement where historically the left side button resided. It is also easier to press as it's halfway between the opposite side button so takes less effort for something you do so often.
Besides, Xbox has more ✕'s than ◯'s in it's name and therefore is more wrong than right so what ever it uses should not be considered as the standard.
Right side confirm, bottom deny is the metric of controllers. Bottom confirm, right deny is the imperial of controllers because it only makes sense to Americans.
B - Back
◯ - Affirmation, correct, OK (Circles are commonly viewed as being a symbol for positivity, perfection, connection, and divinity across many cultures world wide.)
✕ - Refutation, wrong, NG (Similarly this symbol shares similar meanings across many cultures. It's used to portray death, poison, evil, in math it's the symbol of ambiguity or uncertainty. Wires are crossed, they are not connected.)
Especially in terms of why Sony chose those symbols they should conform to that placement as there is a greater chance that the symbolism would be understood world wide. Plus that placement feels better because when I hold a controller B, ✕ is on the bottom which when held flat is toward my back. If I am backing out of something I would go the opposite way I am facing.
Prior to a 4 button format it made sense for the Left button (B) to be Refutation and the right (A) to be Affirmation because most languages are read left to right. This means it is generally ingrained for most people that going left means going backwards and going right means going forwards. If you're in a menu and you wish to go forward with your decision, press A, (The right side button). Would you like to return to where you were? Press B to go back (The left side button). This means the Left side button for affirmation is still functionally sound and likely to be understood easier as the button that should progress you through a menu or confirm a decision. The bottom button takes back because of what I previously stated - but also because it is in the placement where historically the left side button resided. It is also easier to press as it's halfway between the opposite side button so takes less effort for something you do so often.
Besides, Xbox has more ✕'s than ◯'s in it's name and therefore is more wrong than right so what ever it uses should not be considered as the standard.
Right side confirm, bottom deny is the metric of controllers. Bottom confirm, right deny is the imperial of controllers because it only makes sense to Americans.
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Absolutely correct, I don't know how I recognized it as a rhombus while stating its sides aren't equal. :D
Edit: OK, glancing back at it, I realize how: it was the unequal diagonals that were screaming "irregular polygon" to me.
People are coming into this poll with bias based on current conventions as did I. My preference is the Sony/MS convention vs Nintendo's convention. But taking a step back, it should be neither of those.
It really should be the left button for confirm and the bottom button for cancel.
If you pick up the controller and lay your thumb on the buttons, the tip of your thumb would rest on confirm, and the base of your thumb would rest on cancel. It really makes the most sense in terms of eliminating the need for lateral movement.
In action/platformers I usually map action to left and jump to bottom for the same reason.
It really should be the left button for confirm and the bottom button for cancel.
If you pick up the controller and lay your thumb on the buttons, the tip of your thumb would rest on confirm, and the base of your thumb would rest on cancel. It really makes the most sense in terms of eliminating the need for lateral movement.
In action/platformers I usually map action to left and jump to bottom for the same reason.
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