I remember square bringing up the menu in Breath of Fire III (and maybe 4?). I Feel like there were other RPGs that brought up menus with square, too.Were there any games that utilized the triangle and square button's intended mechanics? .
Red circles at that.Yeah, score perfect on any type of Japanese test it will be riddled with circles. It's kinda weird.
Might just be worth it to keep their controllers distinct. You just look like a cheap copy if you mindlessly copy the competition, as I feel the case kind of is with the iOS/Android controllers and the Fire's.I always thought it was to avoid some patent/copyright infringement with Nintendo's SNES controller, same reason the only controllers with actual d-pads are exclusive to Nintendo. All other manufacturers have variations of it.
Now can they explain why they can't make an ergonomic controller to save their lives?
It's also what aggravates me when I see people complain about the fucking letter placement of all things on Nintendo controllers, as if it's a crime to not homogenize and be the same as everyone else (or more specifically Microsoft really.)
It seems they may flip pages that way, but will read vertically (though the order of those lines may be right-to-left.) And when it's horizontal it's left to right.I always just figured it was because Japanese is read right to left (and then carried on through tradition, natch)
It seems they may flip pages that way, but will read vertically (though the order of those lines may be right-to-left.) And when it's horizontal it's left to right.
I actually made the case that there might be a thumb logic to it: your finger will first reach the A button, then you put it in further and it reaches the B button, and same for X/Y. Maybe there's a different explanation from Nintendo, but at any rate at worst it's a unique quirk.
O = one line shape
X = two lines crossing
Triangle = three lines
Square = four lines
Pretty sure it is color coded correctly for Japan. Pokemon does the same thing with nature stats (red means good/increased, blue means bad/decreased).
X box One× □ ○ = X box 360
Sony predicted the future.
Yes, because we've got common sense here in Europe. It's just normal to say "cross" when you call other buttons "triangle", "square" and "round".First post nails it. I imagine people in Europe calling it cross more than Americans do
Yes, because we've got common sense here in Europe. It's just normal to say "cross" when you call other buttons "triangle", "square" and "round".
This.
The least they could have done was color code them correctly.
Do they not use red for stop signs and traffic lights in Japan?
I don't know why companies don't just use up, down, left, right or north, south, east and west. That way everyone would know which button is which without needing to look at them.
"Round"? It's circle! Triangle, X, Square, and Circle!
Sorry, I'm French and here we say "rond" (round obviously) instead of "cercle" (circle) because it's faster to say this way. Anyway, it doesn't bother you to say "triangle", "square", "circle" and then "aiks" instead of cross. That's just plain logic... to me at least."Round"? It's circle! Triangle, X, Square, and Circle!
If you played metal gear solid on the ps1 you probably remember hitting x on the title screen only to have it go back to the "press start" text.
O was confirm and x was cancel. It may have even been that way I'm mgs2 I don't recall.
Yeah, back then I thought was just a weird Metal Gear quirk. It was only after playing some imported games a few months later that I realized what was really going on.If you played metal gear solid on the ps1 you probably remember hitting x on the title screen only to have it go back to the "press start" text.
O was confirm and x was cancel. It may have even been that way I'm mgs2 I don't recall.
I got my PS4 from Hong Kong, and the O is "select" and the X is "back". If I knew that I would have never bought it. Its just so god damn annoying that if the game is from Europe or the US it gets reversed back. On top of that I use my PS3 quiet regularly and I have quite movies several times because of it.
Only some Western games reverse it. Most of the time, it'll stay as circle = accept and x = cancel. I liked it (Asian PS3 owner), it makes every game remind me of that initial bewilderment of booting MGS for the first time again. Is it switched back for all Western games on PS4? Shame.
Lol isn't this super obvious? I knew this already for a couple of years. It's pretty Japanese with x and o.
My question would be how did they come up with it in the first place? Why not use the same shit as the others. Sega, Nintendo did use letters for buttons, so it was mind boggling to see something different in this regard.
Teiyu Goto said:"Other game companies at the time assigned alphabet letters or colors to the buttons. We wanted something simple to remember, which is why we went with icons or symbols, and I came up with the triangle-circle-X-square combination immediately afterward. I gave each symbol a meaning and a color."
Teiyu Goto said:"The triangle refers to viewpoint; I had it represent one's head or direction and made it green. Square refers to a piece of paper; I had it represent menus or documents and made it pink. The circle and X represent 'yes' or 'no' decision-making and I made them red and blue respectively."
Lol isn't this super obvious? I knew this already for a couple of years. It's pretty Japanese with x and o.
× □ ○ = X box 360
Sony predicted the future.
Yeah cause Gamecube did so well and was so well respected in its time right? I had one since 2003 and loved it but it has so many flaws people want to ignore these days. Weird button sizes, small C-Stick, Crap D-Pad. Far from great.Everything should be GCN style but alas :/