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Kreis, icks (ʔɪks), Dreieck, Viereck

since the original PlayStation 1

Spoiler

or

One Line, Two Lines, Three Lines, Four Lines

oh you Germans ... "Viereck"... pff, it's clearly "Kastl"
as in Dreieck, Kastl, Kreis, Icks


but as long as we're all on the same page about the "Sha're" button on the DS4, we're good

 

[Canis lupus]

CROSS

*Cross

Its Cross, not X

Cross

It's not Street Fighter † Tekken, or Project † Zone

Cross, wth is wrong with you guys.

Maybe if you're in America? Everyone outside calls it what it is: X. Never heard anyone call it anything else. "cross" lawl

 

[BouncyFrag]

CrossBox 360 and CrossBox One for life brehs.

 

[Garou]

*Cross

It's a BATSU you heathens!!! It's a Japanese product after all.

 

[galvenize]

iks in France.

 

[Canis lupus]

CrossBox 360 and CrossBox One for life brehs.

Yup, I wonder if the cross people also call the xbox the crossbox.

 

[Jinko]

Yup that's an ECKS.

 

[FDC1]

iks in France.

no, it's croix, always been croix. You just put shame on our country. What's wrong with you?

 

[Sixfortyfive]

Maybe if you're in America?

No.

 

[Jack Videogames]

I don't know you guys I've always called it eks (equis)

 

[G_Berry]

Always been X in this house

This.

 

[neoemonk]

do you say gif or jif?

Trick question! They are pronounced the same! Nice try though.

 

[timetokill]

Maybe if you're in America? Everyone outside calls it what it is: X. Never heard anyone call it anything else. "cross" lawl

"Cross" honestly sounds like what a Brit would call it, to this American.

 

[cebri.one]

#TeamX

 

[Gipsy Danger]

Yup, I wonder if the cross people also call the xbox the crossbox.

I actually do say X but seeing as how the other 3 are shapes, it's safe to assume that it's cross and not X. Pretty different to Xbox.

 

[Ramenman]

XMB = Cross Media Bar = X = Cross ???

I'm sorry but he wins.

 

[SoundLad]

Always been "ecks" instead of "cross"
different strokes for different folks

 

[Jinko]

Out of curiosity what do you put in a box when you fill out a form ?

If you put a tick for a correct answer what do you put for an incorrect answer ?

"Cross" honestly sounds like what a Brit would call it, to this American.

As a Brit I would say the opposite. Oo

 

[RionaaM]

I only get confused when playing a US or JP region game since the confirm and cancel buttons get switched.

X and O to O and X.

I was playing the Metal Gear Solid VR Missions PS3 version (that came with the Legacy Collection) the other day, and turns out the game uses O to accept options in menus. It took me quite some time until I got used to that, because every other PS1 game I ever played used X for that purpose (this was my first experience with PS1 MGS, as I only had the PC port prior to that).

So yeah, switching is really hard if you are not used to it.

 

[Robot Pants]

Maybe if you're in America? Everyone outside calls it what it is: X. Never heard anyone call it anything else. "cross" lawl

No one in America calls it cross either. Stop with this shit.

 

[StayDead]

X or Cross is good.

 

[Zalman]

UNDENIABLE proof that it's called the X button, not the Cross button.

 

[Yoroshiku]

X is actually pronounced "times"

I love you.

 

[ImBarryScott]

You guys are all wrong. It's pronounced "ten".

 

[OnimaruXLR]

I honestly think of them in terms of pink button, blue button, green button, and red button

If there was ever a game with QTE-buttom prompts and the colors missing I'd probably be a bit screwed

 

[foxbeldin]

UNDENIABLE proof that it's called the X button, not the Cross button.

This only proves that someone who works on sly voices believes it's X.


UNDENIABLE proof that it's called the cross button, not the X button.

Official Sony french commercial for you. Croix means cross.

 

[Ansatz]

Never understood why people get the idea to pronounce X as cross in any circumstance unless it's used to denote crossover between two franchises.

X on the dualshock is ecks, the other buttons are geometrical shapes. I mean Xenoblade Chronicles Cross... really??

 

[Jinko]

I was playing the Metal Gear Solid VR Missions PS3 version (that came with the Legacy Collection) the other day, and turns out the game uses O to accept options in menus. It took me quite some time until I got used to that, because every other PS1 game I ever played used X for that purpose (this was my first experience with PS1 MGS, as I only had the PC port prior to that).

So yeah, switching is really hard if you are not used to it.

It's quite common in Japan for X to mean cancel/incorrect and O to mean accept/correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_mark

 

[FDC1]

Never understood why people get the idea to pronounce X as cross in any circumstance unless it's used to denote crossover between two franchises.

X on the dualshock is ecks, the other buttons are geometrical shapes. I mean Xenoblade Chronicles Cross... really??

it doesn't makes sense. All the other buttons would be geometrical shapes but not this one? It's a cross, some may say eks out of habit, by laziness or because it sounds better, no problem for that, but it's a cross, not the letter X.

 

[Lalalandia]

It's an X in Ireland I have never heard anyone use 'cross', as for the XMB the shorthand form is pronounced 'Ecks,Em,Bee' so it's still an X

 

[Sixfortyfive]

it doesn't makes sense. All the other buttons would be geometrical shapes but not this one?

I agree. The Dualshock doesn't make any sense, and this is one of the reasons why.

 

[KORNdoggy]

"ex" for me. cross doesn't sound right.

 

[ZeroMaverick]

That's like calling the square button, "box"

 

[Earthpainting]

The symbols VS letters argument makes a lot of sense to me. I'm willing to admit that I've been convinced, though I don't care enough about this to change my ways.

That's like calling the square button, "box"

Probably more akin to calling the circle button the letter O.

 

[FDC1]

That's like calling the square button, "box"

What? it's nothing like that. It's more like calling the circle button "oh" or "zero", or calling the triangle button "delta"

 

[wowlace]

X = chi

 

[Sarobi]

I feel such a deep disgust for you "Cross" guys. Clearly you don't know what an X is.

 

[Jubern]

As a French guy and because of the very same Parappa commercial some people have already linked in the thread, I say "croix" in French and "cross" in English.
I'm also pretty damn sure any Frenchman who isn't insane goes the same.

It's funny and very surprising for me to see native English speakers say it's always been "ecks", I had never realized you guys rolled like that.

 

[N30RYU]

Ecks


But whay blew my mind was
O - 1 Line
X - 2 lines
Δ - 3 lines
□ - 4 lines

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

In spain cross is cruz (religion one or something with the plus sign, and nothing else), so X is ecks. It would be impossible to call it here cross. Apart from that we already talk about the D-pad as "Cruzeta" because that indead has the shape of a cross.
#teamecks

 

[Jimmyfenix]

Someone tweet yosp.

 

[genbatzu]

oh you Germans ... "Viereck"... pff, it's clearly "Kastl"
as in Dreieck, Kastl, Kreis, Icks


but as long as we're all on the same page about the "Sha're" button on the DS4, we're good

nope, even here in lower austria it's still a viereck ;P

and it's a

-button

 

[EGOMON]

Its "aks" as in letter "X" even voice over in games says "X"

 

[borghe]

Hey look a bunch of Christian influenced posters thinking they own the term cross!!

It's cross. For the same reason why your symbol is called a cross to begin with.

 

[Ansatz]

it doesn't makes sense. All the other buttons would be geometrical shapes but not this one? It's a cross, some may say eks out of habit, by laziness or because it sounds better, no problem for that, but it's a cross, not the letter X.

There's no cross in geometry though.

 

[WITHE1982]

Ecks


But whay blew my mind was
O - 1 Line
X - 2 lines
Δ - 3 lines
□ - 4 lines

I read about the lines thing way back in the PS1 era and thought it was fantastic.

Oh and I agree it's "ecks"

 

[N30RYU]

XMB is Cross Media Bar 'cause indeed the menu is a +

but PSX was first and it wasn't PS Cross... so ECKS

 

[borghe]

There's no cross in geometry though.

This was covered above. It's geometric in that it's two crossed lines. Hence cross.

 

[Amazeballs]

There's no cross in geometry though.

It could be an octagon with a volume not quite zero but approaching zero.

 

[Jinko]

it doesn't makes sense. All the other buttons would be geometrical shapes but not this one? It's a cross, some may say eks out of habit, by laziness or because it sounds better, no problem for that, but it's a cross, not the letter X.

Even as a shape its still an X, you don't say cross marks the spot on a treasure map.

Maybe ask someone to draw an eks on a piece of paper and then ask them to draw a cross and see what happens.