Comment on Why aren't there many controllers with the ability to physically swap out the ABXY layout between Xbox/PC and Nintendo layout?

Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Press the X button.

  Wait am I playing PlayStation or Xbox or Nintendo.

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  • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s weird but they are all different. I’ve never had an issue where I see an Xbox X and hit the PS X. Normally if a game wants X(PS Flavour) the X itself is blue, potentially with a black circle around it. If a game shows you an X(Xbox Flavour) it shows a blue circle with a different blue X inside. Nintendo generally just shows a top button glyph or if they do show the X it’s usually monochrome, except for Americana flavoured SNES which was just top purple and since GC had the vertical kidney bean X… Well, Nintendo only recently became a problem I suppose.

    So, basically, the in-game glyphs do differentiate themselves.

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    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah glyphs ftw. Helps newbies not have to look down, just see position of button, and helps with 3rd party controllers too.

      Also will save the devs a couple of quid with porting

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• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  At least playstation uses a visually distinct set of symbols so you can’t confuse them with the other two. I think it’s really annoying that Xbox and Nintendo both use ABXY, but swapped for some reason. I grew up with Nintendo, so that layout makes “more sense” to me than the unfamiliar Xbox layout, but yeah, I would prefer either a universal layout (maybe neither ABXY or the shapes, perhaps something different that everyone could agree on? Because if you chose the Xbox layout, fans of the Nintendo layout would get mad and vice versa)

  What should that universal layout be though? Maybe the cardinal directions, ESNW? Or perhaps something unique like IJKL? Or maybe the starting letters of colours (RGBA? Transparent button would be cool. CMYK? Printer ink buttons!) Or perhaps not letters, maybe symbols? Like mountain (jagged teeth), sea (wavy line), wind (swirly line), and stone (filled in circle)? Or punch, kick, special move (maybe energy blast), and different special move (maybe healing)?

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  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What should that universal layout be though?

    Just a picture of 3 of the 4 buttons with one highlighted (e.g. left/right with bottom highlighted) would be simple enough.

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    • Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s basically what I had in mind. Steam has this as an option for the big picture mode UI and I like it a lot.

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  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I always assumed Nintendo’s buttons are that way round because Japanese is read right-to-left.

    You’ve got to admit it’s pretty funny that we’ve whittled the field down to three console manufacturers and they all put the ‘X’ button in a different place.

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    • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      well if you make the playstation layout the universal layout both Xbox and Nintendo layout fans will hate you. Interesting the PS symbols had actual meanings rather than being somewhat arbitrary like with ABXY (though you could argue A means accept/action and B means back)

      I think the nintendo layout looks like it makes more sense since it’s AB XY when you read top to bottom, whereas with Xbox layout it’s left-to-right but also bottom-to-top. Idk, I guess it’s all just preference (+ the fact I grew up with nintendo so there is certainly a bias towards that layout)

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      • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s right, circle was accept because drawing a circle in Japanese is their equivalent to a tick, x is cancel like a cross, I think the square was supposed to look like a piece of paper, I can’t remember what the triangle symbolised.

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