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[Sidewinder]

I call it both, it's the only way.

 

[brunomartynhak]

Echs, ex, X

But in Portuguese we say ball (bola) instead of circle (círculo)

 

[SuperEpicMan]

I prefer to call them:

Cross
Equilateral
Naught
Quadrangle

 

[Carl]

I call it the Crosss, just like I call it the Crossbox

Spoiler

Ex. Duh

 

[Timodus]

I call it äx and sometimes risti (cross in Finnish).

 

[Koozek]

icks

 

[dumbo]

I seem to remember someone saying that the 4 shapes are supposed to represent the number of lines used..
Circle = 1
Cross/X = 2
Triangle = 3
Square = 4

In which case, the simplest answer is 2?

 

[stargateheaven]

i say X (as in the letter) or batsu

but its a shape so its cross.

 

[Ushojax]

I call it the X button like 99.99% of people do, but I get that it's officially the "cross" button so it fits in with the other shapes.

 

[MattKeil]

Ecks. In almost 20 years of working in the game industry I have never once heard anyone in said industry call it anything other than "the ecks button." Cross is ridiculous, and the "they're all shapes" thing is like some unconvincing retcon from a Marvel comic.

 

[xyzls]

Its "ex".

A cross is a horizontal and vertical line, normally.
When you tell someone to draw a cross + is what they should be thinking.
When you tilt that 45 degrees, its an ex.
When you search video game titles with the word CROSS in their title, a majority of them will have + instead of x because x is EX.

Please don't mix things people!! It confuses the hell out of communication!!!@#$

 

[Saint of Killers]

Ex.

 

[Diancecht]

Eks.

 

[Q8D3vil]

Ecks

 

[Thud]

The button itself is the cross (or 'kruisje' in Dutch), but during tutorials and such I would call it the X (the letter) button.

 

[Yoshi]

Sure. But the context of the buttons does not obviously call for cross.

a) the symbol it is meant to invoke is called either a cross or an ex among further names

b) it is used (in design) in tandem with a confirm symbol not in use in the western world

c) it isn't even used (in most games in western releases) in a way consistent with that symbolism in any case

And then the "shapes" context is also imperfect:

Crossing lines aren't a shape. They encompass no area. You can't have a shape bound by two lines in Euclidean geometry.

It doesn't "fit" the circle, triangle, square paradigm cleanly as a cross.

And then the context of video game controllers says to a lot of people:

X

So unless you see it as the cross mark/x mark and call that thing cross, which people do, context tends to speak to x just fine. And even if you see it as that mark, people can and do call that mark x.

1. It is clear that people can get the idea to call it X, but on the discussion which is right, it is important to consider the intention more than the context the consumer may see the symbol in.
2. The shape argument is semantical and quite dishonest. When people say "shape" they obviously did not mean this in the mathematical way, but as another word for a simple (meaning: Composed of only few lines with a uniform curvature) geometric figure.

 

[Moondrop]

B

 

[MilkyJoe]

What concerns me the most is that OP typed ecks instead of ex...

 

[Nosgoroth]

en_US: Ecks circle square triangle; dee-pad, left stick, right stick; start, select.
es_ES: Equis círculo cuadrado triángulo; cruceta, stick derecho, stick izquierdo; start, select.

Up up down down left right left right bee a start.
Arriba arriba abajo abajo izquierda derecha izquierda derecha bé ah start.

 

[Waji]

Ecks Button, in german. So... icks Knopf/Taste.



What...??

What what ? Is there something unclear ?

 

[sa201674]

Ekkiisss / e-kēs/ button.

 

[Jisgsaw]

In english, x (as in the letter x)

Strangely enough though, in french, I'd say "croix", or cross.

 

[RoadHazard]

Its "ex".

A cross is a horizontal and vertical line, normally.
When you tell someone to draw a cross + is what they should be thinking.
When you tilt that 45 degrees, its an ex.
When you search video game titles with the word CROSS in their title, a majority of them will have + instead of x because x is EX.

Please don't mix things people!! It confuses the hell out of communication!!!@#$

No, a cross can be diagonal. Ever heard of the cross product? Know what the sign is for that? Or just the multiplication sign on a calculator for that matter. It's ×. That's not an X. X is a letter.

 

[GlamFM]

+ = cross
x = ecks

 

[RoadHazard]

+ = cross
x = ecks

× = cross

(English is dumb for using the same word for both though. In Swedish ✝ is "kors" and × is "kryss".)

 

[Stallion Dan]

Ecks Oh Pyramid Block

 

[BigEmil]

Excks D

 

[shmoglish]

What concerns me the most is that OP typed ecks instead of ex...

Why ex and not just x?

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Ecks marks the spot

....Ecks...

Ecks

X as in the letter.

Ecks since the first ones to use it (Nintendo) where letter based (ABXY)

What the hell is "ecks"?

Just say ex, and yes I call it ex.

Ecks, only heard it called cross once in my lifetime...well now twice.

Echs

Ecksu

Ecks. I had never heard of "X" being said as "Cross" until Project X Zone.

Ecks.

It's cross in Japan afaik but I wonder if it's different anywhere else as well.

Ekkusu.

Eek

Spoiler

ex

Thanks Gaf... faith in humanity restored.

 

[ash_ag]

╳ = Χι
⃝ = Κύκλος or Όμικρον
△ = Τρίγωνο or Δέλτα
⃤ = Τετράγωνο

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

en_US: Ecks circle square triangle; dee-pad, left stick, right stick; start, select.
es_ES: Equis círculo cuadrado triángulo; cruceta, stick derecho, stick izquierdo; start, select.

Up up down down left right left right bee a start.
Arriba arriba abajo abajo izquierda derecha izquierda derecha bé ah start.

Not anymore, son ;-)

 

[_SAKY_]

The intersection button

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

This is a stupid question. It's obviously ex.

The more interesting question is do you say circle or oh?

 

[Thud]

╳ = Χι
⃝ = Κύκλος or Όμικρον
△ = Τρίγωνο or Δέλτα
⃤ = Τετράγωνο

The hero we don't deserve.

 

[Liquid Kazoo]

Cross, they are all shapes.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

Cross, they are all shapes.

No it's an even distribution of shapes and letters. Square and triangle. X and O.

 

[SgtCobra]

Kruisje.

Hahaha scherp

 

[Aarglefarg]

No it's an even distribution of shapes and letters. Square and triangle. X and O.

It is a circle, not an o.

And it was ignored before but the instructions for installing a PS3 theme:

Download this theme to customise the PlayStation®3 XMB™ Menu's background and icons.

To apply the downloaded theme:
1) Choose Settings on the PlayStation®3 XMB™ Menu and select the Theme Settings option.
2) Press the CROSS button to display the Theme Menu, then press the CROSS button again to display a list of available themes.
3) Scroll to the desired theme and select Apply.

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en...yStation Store save up to 70%::Battlefield 3"
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en...yStation Store save up to 70%::Battlefield 3"
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en...yStation Store save up to 70%::Battlefield 3"

 

[Moor-Angol]

Considering the other 3 buttons are symbols, I always called it cross

The funny thing is that it's used in the West for confirmation while in Japan it's used to cancel

I still do wrong every time I play Outrun 2006 on my jpn PSP

 

[Metalgus]

"Hicks", but I speak French.

 

[Thud]

No it's an even distribution of shapes and letters. Square and triangle. X and O.

Actually, if you look closer it's x and o.

 

[Caronte]

It's not a cross, tho.

Yes it is. The picture in the OP is wrong, the real X button is a cross (even if everyone calls it X).

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

Actually, if you look closer it's x and o.

This is true.

 

[Sulik2]

I've never heard it called cross in my life. It's an ecks.

 

[Speedwagon]

It's the X (ecks) button because this is a cross

 

[Triggerhappytel]

I can understand people calling it Cross, as that's a shape and the other three buttons are shapes. However I've always called it X as in the letter.

 

[KiNolin]

Cross!? Just when you thought it couldn't get worse than "snez".

 

[GLAMr]

I say it like the letter X, but wholeheartedly acknowledge that it is in fact a cross.

 

[.....]

EX , wtf is ecks op.

 

[Ducarmel]

Always said ex, now that I'm less ignorant of the ps controller design I will now call it cross.