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[ManaByte]

Ever since the PSX JPN PlayStation games would use the Circle button as confirm. On Western systems it was always X. So you just grew to adjust to Circle when playing a game from Japan.

Sony changed this on the PS5. It's now uniform with the West in using X as confirm after 25 years of being different.

 

[Big Baller]

LOL never knew this

 

[Thugnificient]

We won the war. It's time they do as we say.

 

[SaturnSaturn]

Well no shit, Playstation is run from Cali now, its just a american company so to speak now.

 

[Big Baller]

Well no shit, Playstation is run from Cali now, its just a american company so to speak now.

Yet Japanese influencers get their hands on PS5 first

 

[Hendrick's]

That would be annoying AF. But I guess Japan is second fiddle now even for Playstation.

 

[bucyou]

west is best

 

[synce]

American Sony already forcing their values on Japanese devs, why not button layout as well

 

[LazyParrot]

Yet Japanese influencers get their hands on PS5 first

It's a safe choice. Shilling isn't considered a bad thing in Japan, it's more or less expected. It's one way to ensure that first reported impressions will be positive.

 

[Moonjt9]

Man I live in Korea and I’m so used to O being confirm and X being cancel. I am assuming it is a universal change, will definitely take some time to get used to. I can see why people would be upset, but it won’t be a big deal in the end I think.

 

[kruis]

Ever since the PSX JPN PlayStation games would use the Circle button as confirm. On Western systems it was always X. So you just grew to adjust to Circle when playing a game from Japan.

Sony changed this on the PS5. It's now uniform with the West in using X as confirm after 25 years of being different.

Nintendo never changed their Japanese button setup for games they released in the west. It was pretty annoying when I bought my first Nintendo games after being a PS gamer for so long.

 

[Birdo]

First two nukes, and now this?

Japanese can't catch a break.

 

[Rean no Kiseki]

"OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

 

[Warnen]

With console gaming on the decline in Japan, no wonder they sided with the West on this one.

 

[Md Ray]

I live in India and for me, on PSX, the Circle button was confirm and X was cancel. Since PS2 it was the other way around and took me a while to get used to X as confirm button lol. I feel bad for them.

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

They can change it back in the settings, right?

No biggie for me since I have a JP account.

 

[blastprocessor]

Interesting didn't know this but it's for the best

 

[[Sigma]]

Those 9 millions PS4s you managed to get out of Japan just dropped to 5 million for PS5. Thanks Jim.

 

[Kuranghi]

I mapped Cemu's input to an Xbox controller last night and I set it the A, B, X and Y to the Xbox buttons not thinking it was supposed to be the Nintendo layout. Then in BotW I was like, "wow I don't remember the controls being this awkward! Why the hell is attack set to Y!"

What a nobber I am.

In SM3DW it just makes sense to do it that way because the controls are duplicated across the four face buttons AND then confirm and back matches PS/XB conventions. Always takes me 30 mins or so to get back into pressing Circle/B for confirm after a break.

 

[TonyK]

Now Nintendo, please.

 

[Carna]

I wonder if Japanese playstation devs are planning to jump ship?

The Sega Saturn is getting the last laugh right now.

 

[xion4360]

Better be able to change that for them. Its just as annoying when I try to play a Japanese game and have to adjust to circle being confirm.

 

[Calverz]

Make em go back to uk buttons ps1.
X=confirm
Triangle=back

 

[FeiRR]

So much drama, so little sense.

 

[xion4360]

So much drama, so little sense.

Yes except you dont want to universally change the button assignment as that will affect everything not just confirm/cancel

 

[BaneIsPain]

Not a big deal tbh. Only fussy people complained about it.

 

[mitch1971]

Now, all's left to do is get rid of the invert look nonsense.

 

[tillbot8]

Huh, you learn something new everyday!

 

[FeiRR]

Yes except you dont want to universally change the button assignment as that will affect everything not just confirm/cancel

What do you mean by 'everything'?

 

[JonnyMP3]

I'm getting some OG FF7 annoyance flashback here with the X&O change. It's just one of those annoyances that stopped me from being interested in the Japanese scene... Or I'm just an old school Nintendo Snes/Megadrive fanboy.

 

[Airbus Jr]

Damn this is anoying...

Im so used to O as confirmation button...

Everytime i played Ace Combat its already automatic for me to press O to fire missile as i scream "Fox One ! Fox Two!"

Or in FIFA....O....is for shooting....

how am i suppsed to shoot with X man..damn...

 

[Celcius]

Not a huge deal. I’ve played games where O was confirm and X was cancel, and after a few minutes I got used to it.

 

[base]

That's racist!

 

[Bo_Hazem]

What's the big deal? Uniformity is good.

 

[Zenaku]

What do you mean by 'everything'?

Games can specify actions for 'O', 'X', 'Confirm' and 'Cancel' separately. While confirm & cancel are swapped between regions, actions set specifically to X or O can remain consistent. Swapping the buttons with a custom layout will swap all actions alongside confirm & cancel.

Hopefully there'll be a dedicated setting to swap them, and Sony have just changed the default.

 

[M1chl]

Nuke the west : D

 

[Sander Cohen]

We’re all at the mercy of San Mateo HQ diktat now. Suits in Tokyo basically said, here‘s Playstation for you Americans, do what you think is best with it. We’ll gladly reap the profits.


Also, we need “shot themselves in the foot“ meme.

 

[FeiRR]

Games can specify actions for 'O', 'X', 'Confirm' and 'Cancel' separately. While confirm & cancel are swapped between regions, actions set specifically to X or O can remain consistent. Swapping the buttons with a custom layout will swap all actions alongside confirm & cancel.

Hopefully there'll be a dedicated setting to swap them, and Sony have just changed the default.

You mean that X is still jump but doesn't double as confirm? Last time I played with that layout was probably FFVII on PSX so I'm not familiar with that. I always have problems with Switch and Xbox controllers though because they're different so I can understand why people would complain. Also easy to change for devs in games.

I noticed O as respawn confirmation in Godfall, maybe it depends on devs then?

 

[Panajev2001a]

A new day, a new flurry of “concern” threads. Buttons can generally be remapped and this is not the weirdest of changes... overblown.

 

[XGon'GiveItToYa]

I remember this from playing Winning Eleven. Would probably be a better thing to make it an option at the system level. Don't know if PS4 allows for that now but I know Xbox One does allow to swap button functions so you could have A do what B normally does and B do what A does. That would change it in game as well.

 

[decisions]

Wrong choice. Should’ve made the Japanese layout the standard.

Everyone knows it makes more sense for circle to be a confirmation and an x to be a rejection.

 

[Ogbert]

Sony surrenders to Nintendo.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Yep button remapping is a must in 2020. Billions of people with Billions of ways to push buttons. Took Nintendo way to long to implement but nintendo has button remapping, can you believe it.

 

[FrankWza]

Wrong choice. Should’ve made the Japanese layout the standard.

Everyone knows it makes more sense for circle to be a confirmation and an x to be a rejection.

it a cross button. Not an x

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Yet Japanese influencers get their hands on PS5 first

They need the Japanese audience to be excited because Japan doesn’t give a shit about anything but the Switch at this point.

The excitement in the States is here, and they have and probably always will have Europe so they don’t need to build hype as much.

 

[Aion002]

 

[Goro Majima]

 

[Batiman]

I remember when triangle was cancel or back. They changed that to circle over the years. Maybe because the 360?

 

[diffusionx]

Those 9 millions PS4s you managed to get out of Japan just dropped to 5 million for PS5. Thanks Jim.

9 million consoles out of 110 - shows how irrelevant the Japanese market has become really. Sad!

 

[The Fartist]

Now, all's left to do is get rid of the invert look nonsense.