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A cross and an X.

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It's a friggin X.
 
X, as in the letter X, is a regular part of English vernacular. Variables are often X and Y. X marks the spot. Click X to close a window. Triple X. X for kisses. A cross, and crosses, are prevalently and primarily religious iconography that do not resemble an X.

If you ask an ordinary person to draw a cross, and if you were asked to draw a cross outside this context, I would have a very hard time believing you wouldn't draw a crucifix.

With that in mind, I don't see how anybody's first logistic leap when viewing the X button would be anything but the letter X. Especially when Xbox (Crossbox?) and Nintendo machines have had X buttons. Why would you identify an X button on a PlayStation controller any differently? It's an identical shape. The geometric context is irrelevant because X is still used as an indicating symbol.

This doesn't have anything to do with what creators say (creator of GIFs is wrong) or what T-Shirts say. This has to do with being shown a symbol which you have used and identified thousands of times in your life as the letter X as something other than the letter X.

As for SFxTekken, I was always under the impression that the letter X served as a cross only in this context because Japan uses lots of symbols with no pronounceable alternative to indicate relationships.

ChromxRobin, for example, is two characters linked romantically.

Chrom!Morgan indicates familial relationship. But how would you pronounce that? The exclamation point is an established symbol used here as a form of code. In this case it would mean "sired", or something to that effect, but you wouldn't pronounce every exclamation point outside this context as "sired".

This whole thing is so stupid and how wars get started.
 
Never heard someone refer to the X button as cross in my entire life. Then again, everyone I've ever gamed with in my life knew the alphabet.
 
The fuck? People actually call it cross? I've never heard that in my life. Do they call it cross on the xbox and nintendo controllers as well?
 
Here we call the PS buttons like this:
Triángulo, cuadrado, círculo, equis (= ex = X).
Ex. My whole life. And everyone I know calls it like that.

And it took me a while to get used to them. I actually learnt them based on their colors instead of their shapes at first. It was difficult after a short life of playing on Nintendo consoles (was 9).
 
For the first few years that I had my PSX (~1997...God I feel old) I got circle and square confused all the time. Made some games an absolute bitch to play...
 
This very debate convinced me a few months back to rebrand my online alias as Kyle Cross. Largely cause that's my favorite button and because Fedora was a really really stupid idea and poor insight on my part.

Yes, it's a X, but c'mon... Cross sounds awesome don't deny it.
 
rjc571 said:
It's a hell of a lot easier than the Dreamcast and Xbox controllers using the same letters as the SNES controller but permuted.
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A million times this. I can't count how many times I threw a pass to the wrong WR in NFL2K games because the green Y button is on the left on a SNES, but at the top on a DC.

Mind you, probably not a common problem as the SNES had lame purple/pink buttons in the USA, and the NFL2K games for DC never got released in PAL territories...
 
The PS1 button layout was easy to get use to, the analog stick placement took time getting use to.

Also, for the Cross vs X argument, what game have you ever heard say "Press Cross to (action)"? Cause I never heard that before.
 
Always been X for me, never head x as cross until I saw stuff like Streetfighter x Tekken and other crossover games using it.
 
A European thing ?

I can safely say that in my lifetime no one ever called the X button cross.
I can say this at least for Germany, Italy and France.
 
chrizzz09 said:
A European thing ?

I can safely say that in my lifetime no one ever called the X button cross.
I can say this at least for Germany, Italy and France.
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In France, everybody (around me) says "croix" (cross). And I don't really see what's the problem with it. For every other symbols, you call them as their geometrical names but when it comes to the "X" button, it suddenly become "exe".

Anyway, can't we just say it however we want?
No, because the internet thinks you're a dumbass if you don't think like he does
 
Never heard anyone say cross growing up... Even in Japan it's not called cross but rather batsu (x mark)
 
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