• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    It’s wrong because A comes before B and X comes before Y and English speakers/readers read from left to right.

    I have never owned an X-Box in my life.

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      2 months ago

      At the end of the day they’re just glyphs though. Maybe letters in a clockwise alphabetical order is the most intuitive for someone who has never used a controller before, but I’ve never seen anyone complain about the PS buttons layout after the initial “where the fuck is triangle” phase… except for that Japanese standard where X is “cancel” and O is “confirm”… because they deviate from what we are used to (and actually mimick the Nintendo layout regarding A and B placement, interestingly enough)

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        People don’t complain about the order of the glyphs, because outside of videos games, there is no pre-existing, ubiquitous, order those glyphs will always appear in every single time you see them (which is constantly because they make up your written language).

        A comes before B. A 3 year old can tell you that.

        Square, x, circle, and triangle have no preset order.