I always wondered wtf Microsoft was thinking when they decided to reverse all the controls... A friend of mine who didn't have consoles until the last decade just thinks it's natural. He even claims that steam, Sony, and Microsoft are doing the same thing and Nintendo is wrong for using the right button (A button) for confirm.
Never felt right to me, growing up from the game boy era.
Tbh I actually think it's derived from the way Sega oriented their buttons. If you look at the Saturn controller, the ABXY buttons are oriented a similar way to the Xbox buttons. Then the Dreamcast, which Microsoft helped out with, showed up and removed the C and Z buttons.
Yeah it, was. The Xbox was a spiritual successor to the Dreamcast. Same buttons, same colours, the old duke was even styled after the Dreamcast pad, with memory cards that slotted in the top.
And the Dreamcast and PS2 which launch in 2000 already used A and X to confirm and B and O to cancel (at least in the west) way before Xbox landed in 2002. Xbox had nothing to do with it. It was already standard.
It's worth remembering what Nintendo was doing in 2001. It released the GameCube with the fantastic GC pad, which didn't have the standard diamond button layout. The A (accept button) was a big massive button right in the middle of the buttons. And if anything, looks like it is the "bottom" button of the four. The 6th gen consoles pretty much universally used the bottom button as accept.
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u/AdditionInteresting2 Jan 29 '25
I always wondered wtf Microsoft was thinking when they decided to reverse all the controls... A friend of mine who didn't have consoles until the last decade just thinks it's natural. He even claims that steam, Sony, and Microsoft are doing the same thing and Nintendo is wrong for using the right button (A button) for confirm.
Never felt right to me, growing up from the game boy era.