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[Sesuadra]

I call it batsu
in my youth I called it the ecks button.

 

[SnakeEyes]

Ecks.

Same as Ecks-Bawks or Ecks-Bone.

 

[LordofPwn]

Show me the receipts on it being officially called "cross"

It's ex, the only people I've seen use cross are people in the UK and a few stubborn

Spoiler

wrong

people on here.

 

[jotun?]

It's the multiply button

 

[Matrix XII]

Ecks

 

[Edris]

X as in the letter.

.

 

[KaoteK]

X

 

[Head.spawn]

□ - Square
◯ - Circle
△ - Triangle
╳ - X (Ecks)

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

As the letter.

A cross stands on one leg. That's an X in the OP.

I guess not necessarily in Japan lol

 

[mavo]

Cross, it just makes way more sense since the rest of the buttons are also figures.

 

[Tntnico]

la croix

This

It's mindblowing for me that everyone use "EX" instead of cross. It's just another symbol like the other.

 

[Tunahead]

In keeping with the DualShock's secret nautical theme, the face buttons are of course called the keel, the lateen, the cannonball, and the buried treasure.

 

[Aarglefarg]

Show me the receipts on it being officially called "cross"

It's ex, the only people I've seen use cross are people in the UK and a few stubborn

Spoiler

wrong

people on here.

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[Yoshi]

Papee-eh mâché

A cross stands on one leg. That's an X in the OP.

Meet the crossproduct ×: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product
It's interestingly not called the X-product by anyone I know. It is a bit silly that many games that want to use the cross product in their name actually use the X, which looks similar (it also is a cross afterall), but has a different pronounciation than "cross".

Regarding the button: It is completely obvious that the button is a cross button, considering all the buttons are geometric shapes. I like to use correct words instead of goofing around, so of course I call it the cross button.

Also, the image in the OP is not representative of the cross button and falsely leads to people calling it X, where in actuality, the controller itself has a perfectly fine crossproduct symbol:

 

[Carl7]

Xis.

 

[RSP]

IKS

 

[HardRojo]

Equis (Ecks).
I don't think any self-respecting native Spanish speaker calls it Cruz (Cross).

 

[mrkgoo]

Papee-eh mâché

A cross stands on one leg. That's an X in the OP.

What do you do when you cross something out? That's right, you put an ECKS through it.

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

Ehhhks
Triiiii
Ohhhhh
Squeeee

 

[Pankratous]

Ex

 

[Blade30]

IKS

IKS here as well (Germany). Damn it's been a long time since I played on my ps1.

 

[Zalman]

Bentley from Sly Cooper calls it ecks. Ecks is canon.

 

[vegohead]

Stealth Jontron apprication thread.

So many Ecks to go around.

 

[HorseFD]

I call it Ex.

But I refuse to call Options anything other than Start.

 

[GRaider81]

It's an ex for me however for those saying that it's not a cross, lots of national flags use a diagonal cross including my own the St Andrews Cross.

I also believe there is some BDSM equipment that uses the same name......

 

[Mexen]

Before I found out their official names, I called the buttons as follows

Cross - 'Ecks'
Square - Box
Circle - 'Oh'

I once made a photoshop meme that had the Cross and Square button next to '360' with the 0 replaced by Circle. Good times.

When officially commenting on contextual control schemes, I use their official names. When chilling with my friends, ye olde vernac comes out to play.

 

[televator]

Microsoft CrossBox One Cross

 

[Kremzeek]

How is it not a cross?

A cross would be like this: +

It's an ex.

 

[sense]

I think this thread would be more divisive if we are discussing "O" vs Circle. I hope I am not a monster for calling it circle lol.

 

[Off-Kilter]

A cross would be like this: +

It's an ex.

We've already been over this. X is a type of cross. It's literally two crossing lines.

By the way one of my buddies says BOX for square.

 

[MCN]

I call it the "God damnit why does everyone put X in a different place?" button.

And yet they always use the same colour for it...

 

[bryt]

I call it the ex button. One of my buds calls the triangle the illuminati button though.

 

[Stranya]

both, arbitrarily

also

circle - 1 line
cross - 2 lines
triangle - 3 lines
square - 4 lines

Snap.

 

[Intel_89]

Echh.

 

[Lesmith88]

Ecks or x for short

 

[Kanhir]

Ecks. It's tough to convince a generation of SNES players to pronounce a button differently.

 

[GrimCitizen]

There are two types of people in this world: people who call it ecks and people who are wrong.

 

[Popsickles]

So people in the cross camp, do you say merry cross-mas or merry Xmas.
Also is Scorpio now the Xbox cross

 

[Stilton Disco]

'Ex' button.

Also, I've always wondered, do people who call it the 'cross' button also call the circle button the 'naught' button?

 

[sense]

We've already been over this. X is a type of cross. It's literally two crossing lines.

By the way one of my buddies says BOX for square.

And you are still buddies?

 

[Goldboy]

I have never in my life heard someone call it the cross button.

 

[hanspampel]

The A button

 

[Dinjooh]

Of course I say kryds. I mean, they're all just shapes right?

 

[Ethelwulf]

I call it ecks, but I think officially is called the cross button

 

[Earthpainting]

Let's just agree that everyone was wrong, and adopt this new standard:

△ - Roof
□ - Wall
◯ - Hobbit Door
╳ - Fence

 

[Chinbo37]

There are two types of people in this world: people who call it ecks and people who are wrong.

Yup

 

[Adam_Roman]

90% of the time I say Ecks. Usually if it's in the context of a Japanese game I'll say Cross. I know it's weird but I also call certain carbonated soft drinks Pop and others Soda.

 

[Darkstorne]

A cross would be like this: +

It's an ex.

Ah yes, hence the popular game "naughts and exes" =P

I too say "ex", but there's nothing wrong with saying "cross". It's two lines crossing.

 

[Van Bur3n]

There are two types of people in this world: people who call it ecks and people who are wrong.

Quite. Seriously, if you call it 'cross' you're just wrong. Simple. I confirm this. Through objectivity.

 

[Grampasso]

X button for me. The Xbox has one as well, the SNES had one, and in my mind a cross is the religious symbol, rather than.. well, X.

Though they are all in a different position. SNES is left, PSX is down and XBox is up... so basically nobody's right.

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BTW since I'm Italian and the word for Cross would be longer and inappropriate I'll obviously go with Eeks (going by our pronounce of that letter).