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[Shifty]

Cross and Square. X is a letter, not a symbol.

(It also causes needless confusion with the Xbox and Nintendo layouts.)

 

[TacosNSalsa]

I don't care what it's called once it is used to confirm an action I'm good

 

[Sander Cohen]

Because +50% of people would call it *plus* and we would have the exact same discussion, just different.

Sure but that’s not really cross then. This is cross , or even more accurately this . Only if you’re alluding to House of Bolton can you call X a cross.

 

[yet_another_alt]

Same thing, m80s.

 

[xion4360]

a cross is simply two intersecting lines..you guys are equating a jesus style cross with one line longer than the other as the true meaning of a cross but its not..just two lines crossing, either vertical and horizontal, or at an angle like an X..either way its a cross.

cross/krôs/
noun
a mark, object, or figure formed by two short intersecting lines or pieces (+ or ×).
"cut a cross in the bark with a sharp knife"

 

[Diddy X]

Not sure in english, but in spanish that's absolutely not a 'cruz' but an 'equis' let us call it whatever we want lol

 

[Shifty]

a cross is simply two intersecting lines..you guys are equating a jesus style cross with one line longer than the other as the true meaning of a cross but its not..just two lines crossing, either vertical and horizontal, or at an angle like an X..either way its a cross.

cross/krôs/
noun
a mark, object, or figure formed by two short intersecting lines or pieces (+ or ×).
"cut a cross in the bark with a sharp knife"

I mean, it's not entirely surprising that the dumb American majority would prioritize a religious definition based in fiction over a geometrical definition based in hard math

We are after all talking about the country that got the 'Genesis' instead of the much superior 'Mega Drive' name because SEGA marketing wanted to optimize sales for puritanism.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

I'm geeting CROSSbox next gen!

I mean, it's not entirely surprising that the dumb American majority would prioritize a religious definition based in fiction over a geometrical definition based in hard math

You sound so knowledgeable, you must know that different words means different things across time and population?

I do generally prefer the UK version of English.

 

[mortal]

This isn't really news. It's been referred to as 'cross' in some regions since PS1. Which makes more sense when considering the other geometrically themed face buttons.
I just call it X though.

 

[prag16]

No.

 

[Clear]

Noughts and crosses? Its not an X just as circle is not an O.

Yeah, first thing I thought of too!

 

[Shifty]

You sound so knowledgeable, you must know that different words means different things across time and population?

Sure, and I also know that colloquialisms don't trump the original definition given to something by the people that created it.

There's nothing to stop folks saying X for the sake of using a single syllable, but that doesn't mean their take is definitive.

 

[Helios]

This is a cross:

Do you call the Red Cross the Red X?

 

[Birdo]

Do you call the Red Cross the Red X?

Yep.

 

[ExpandKong]

Anyone who says it’s cross probably eats candy bars with silverware. Fuckin weirdos.

 

[ConnorDuffy1977]

My buddy once told me to 'hit the box button' for PGA Tour on the PS. I truly thought he was the only one.

 

[Birdo]

It's strange that the Master System is the only console to have numbered buttons, when it probably makes the most sense.

 

[Three]

But is it Merry-oh? Or Mar-eeo?

It's merry xmas eoo. Eksmass not crossmas.

 

[Verdanth]

Better call it transgender button, when in doubt.

 

[SonGoku]

Ucucks cant be trusted with such important matters
Its exxxxx

ALPHA AF

 

[MeatSafeMurderer]

I prefer to call them:
Saltire
Equiangular equilateral quadrilateral
Tri-corner 2-dimensional polytope
NGC 4486

 

[mejin]

Press X to surrender

 

[Dee Dah Dave]

ex, window, football, pyramid

everyone knows this

 

[Diddy X]

It's strange that the Master System is the only console to have numbered buttons, when it probably makes the most sense.

Doesn't make much sense when consoles are suposed to be fun and numbers are not fun at all.

 

[Geki-D]

This is a cross:

"Saint Andrew's Cross", not "Saint Andrew's Ex".

Also the origin of the PS buttons is:

"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. People thought those colors were mixed up, and I had to reinforce to management that that’s what I wanted."

In Japan Circle was confirm, X was cancel. In the west they were reversed. Not idea why some people think square was the back button.

 

[Deleted member 740922]

I'm getting CROSSbox next gen!

CROSSboCROSS ?

 

[Birdo]

numbers are not fun at all.

Looks like someone didn't watch Sesame Street!

 

[Gamernyc78]

Cross sounds so stupid foh.

 

[Teslerum]

Sure but that’s not really cross then. This is cross ✝, or even more accurately this ☦. Only if you’re alluding to House of Bolton can you call X a cross.

It is a cross as mentioned multiple times. A cross is a shape in which two lines intersect. Game of Thrones allergories have really nothing to do with a loooooong established definition of a word.....

Unless you're not actually serious.

 

[Saber]

I don't give a crap what they call the button.

I play my PS4 and I call it X.

 

[Stimpak]

There’s only one cross, and it’s used for profligates calling an X a cross.

 

[Esppiral]

I call it equis.

 

[rəddəM]

Cross my balls.
I call it the Intersecting Lines button.

 

[Sleepwalker]

X, circle, triangle, square.

Pretty simple. cross lmao

 

[Nymphae]

Sometimes people are just wrong about the things they name. This and GIF are two examples. Popular usage determines the name imo. It is an X. The thing that I never understood about this is that it's observably not "a cross", yes two lines are crossing, but generally you don't call that "a cross".

 

[ThatGamingDude]

Wait? Do people not know that the symbols on the button correspond to mechanics in game??? And why it's called cross??

Square = Menu (Represents paper)
Triangle = Viewpoint (Represents head)
X = Back/cancel/wrong, etc
Circle = Affirmation/correct/select, etc

Cross and Circle being the way that Japanese use to denote right and wrong, because they don't use the Latin alphabet, so there is no "X" for them

I'll admit I just call it X on a playstation controller just because of the vernacular calling it "X"
IIRC even old PS1 manuals call it Cross

In a recent interview with 1up, Sony designer Teiyu Goto spills the beans as to what he had in mind with each button:


Goto:

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. 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. People thought those colors were mixed up, and I had to reinforce to management that that’s what I wanted.

The Meaning of the PlayStation Controller Buttons | The Mary Sue

For all of the ways that Sony's PlayStation shook up gaming when it entered the fray in 1994 -- as an entrant into the gaming world that wasn't made by Sega or Nintendo, as a 32-bit system that didn't suck -- one quiet change came in the form of its controller buttons. Previous systems from the...

www.themarysue.com

 

[Ban Puncher]

Ucucks cant be trusted with such important matters
Its exxxxx

ALPHA AF

 

[Hudo]

Weird. I always called it Chi.

 

[Tesseract]

shame, that's not what it is

this is a mistake and unless they change the orientation of the x on the face, i'm done with sony and their kingdom of shadowy colossi until jesus returns to power slide like an apex predator

fucking retards, x is not +

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

It's been the letter X to me since the SNES/Genesis days, same with my friends, so that's what it will always be in so far as I'm concerned. Too late to change now. It's just a badass letter hanging out with a bunch of symbols. Lol

 

[Stefan.North]

Sony should learn what the god-damn buttons are called. X is eks!

 

[Teslerum]

Sometimes people are just wrong about the things they name. This and GIF are two examples. Popular usage determines the name imo. It is an X. The thing that I never understood about this is that it's observably not "a cross", yes two lines are crossing, but generally you don't call that "a cross".

You do

By definition its the name of that particular shape

And not just in englisch.

I don't care whatever you people call or interpret that damn button. But for fucks sake. The shape of two intersecting lines IS called a cross regardless of how it looks. I'm a christian myself and the cross of christ is something completly different than *cross* as a shape. Words have multiple meanings. This isn't something unique or new.

 

[Nymphae]

You do

No, you don't, which is why calling it X is more common.

 

[Teslerum]

No, you don't, which is why calling it X is more common.

And still it is a cross. And depending on your profession you ARE actually going to use cross in that sense a lot.
And again, I don't care how you call it. I don't care how Sony calls it.

YOU SHOULDN'T EITHER.

But, cross is a completly valid definition for the shape displayed on the button. Nothing more, nothing less.
I don't have a problem with posts saying *And I don't care and call it X*. Thats fine. I do have a problem with people calling Sony's definition of shapes *wrong*.

 

[discait]

It's 'eks.' Not 'cross.' Europeans are fucking weird. And wrong a lot.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

I call X 'ecks', like the English letter that the Japanese appropriated. And I pronounce Monster Hunter Generations XX and Tekken X Street Fighter and Guilty Gear XX and Hunter X Hunter and all those other glorious 'cross' inclusions 'ecks' too.

Am I gonna start calling it 'Mega Man Cross' now? Which one is the better RPG, Final Fantasy Cross, Final Fantasy Cross Hypen Two, or Final Fantasy Cross Line Line?

 

[lock2k]

Always knew it was cross. Why the fuck would you put a letter among symbols? Just for the hell of it? Cross and square.

 

[Esppiral]

It's 'eks.' Not 'cross.' Europeans are fucking weird. And wrong a lot.

I am European I call it equis that's the equivalent of "eks" in English.

 

[Whitesnake]

Only japanese people refer to "X" (usually looks like ✕) as "cross".

They also refer to "~" as "dash".

They are wrong, and I will die on that hill.

 

[Whitesnake]

Final Fantasy Cross Line Line?

Ackchyually, it's called Final Fantasy Cross Verticle Bar Verticle Bar.