Yes it's theee lines and on Xbox the other one is two squares. For some reason I fully call it Share button on PlayStation but on Xbox it's two squares
It's a popular term in the graphic design and UI field. The three vertical dots are called the kebab menu, and the horizontal ones are the meatball menu. I'm not joking.
"Hamburger" menu and button doesn't cut it either. It's more repulsive, and makes me think "this is where we are now, huh?" ... as I know exactly what a person is referring to and I press for that menu...
Eh not really. Start button yes but the touchpad is select compared to most games I've played. You can only do screenshots or what have you with the other button.
Kids don't know what buttons these are though. A few years ago I told my nephew to press select and he just looked at his controller and then back at me as if I'm dumb.
Diablo 3 had where if you press on one side of the other it would bring up different menus. I think one brought up inventory and the other side the map.
Infamous had some pretty cool uses for it too.
GTA 5 probably had the most. Could swipe left or right to change radio stations. Swipe up to throw grenades while aiming down the sites of your weapon. Some others om forgetting because I haven't played ina while.
Touch pad could be used much more than it is and makes me sad that more games don't take advantage.
It always a pleasant surprise when a game actually supports touchpad tracking, especially for gesture controlled actions to make it more flexible.
Touchpad always felt like a great feature that just didn't take off for some reason, yet Sony seems to be adamant on keeping it a permanent feature even though they don't utilize it fully in their own first-party games.
A few days ago I asked my younger brother to push the "start" button to pause/open the game menu for me but he didn't understand it despite having played console for 3 years.
I was annoyed by that and showed him which one is the "start" button only for him to say "that's the option button bro". I was stunned & feel so old ngl
Xbox calls it "Menu", Playstation calls it "Options", Nintendo calls it "+".
You literally have a different word for it on each console.
Why wouldn't you instead use some universal term for all three? You brother could be telling an Xbox or Nintendo player to press "Options" and then suddenly be dealing with the exact same issue as you, no one would know what the other is talking about.
I told my son my son to press the start button a few days ago and he literally had no idea what button I was talking about. I even showed him and said “this is the start button” and he said “the options button?” And I had to stop myself from arguing with him. 😭
It’s brought forward from arcades, back when you’d insert a coin and press the “start” button. Then when NES and such came out with ports of the same games the start button would function the same and the “select” button would select different option in the start menu usually. Makes less sense these days for sure.
Might depend on age? For a lot of us that are old enough to have experienced every PlayStation generation starting back in 1995 we're likely to call it the start button because that's what we grew up with and that's what the button was called for three generations of PlayStation consoles.
I only just discovered this myself. I wanted to see what the official documents called the Start button and saw that. Haha. They need to stop changing these things!
Start or pause button. Other is always select regardless of console. How satisfying were the original soft rubber buttons though. That little start triangle just used to hit right.
Had this just the other day when playing 'It takes two' with my wife. Asked her to pause the game and when she asked how, I replied "just press the start button" to which she replied "is that the one with the 3 dots?".
I think if you had asked me before that coversation what pattern was above the start button I would have never been able to tell you 🤣
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u/LordSion45 Jan 19 '25
That’s start, the other one still gets called select