Why do japanese playstations use the O button instead of the X button as their main? its maddening...

Why do japanese playstations use the O button instead of the X button as their main? its maddening. Are their brains backwards?

no but their vaginas are sideways
so I've heard

X is a No or cross symbol. When you disqualify someone from an event of sorts, you may cross both your arms together to form an X to indicate the player has been disqualified. Cross in general indicates NO, or 'No Passing' or 'Not Allowed'.

Back of the knee maybe...

Why do gaijin playstations use the X button instead of the O button as their main?

you mean fork

You put an X on the ballot not a circle you dumbass weebs

because they are cuckolded faggots

〇 is correct/confirm, like the "OK" hand gesture.
is incorrect/cancel, like what you'd see on a test if you got a question wrong.

>is incorrect/cancel, like what you'd see on a test if you got a question wrong.
Weird, my × got erased.

× is incorrect/cancel, like what you'd see on a test if you got a question wrong.

At least, that's how it is in Japan.

I use X for attack and O for jump on pcsx2 because i like to have my thumb closer to the analog stick when im attacking

Because it occupies the position "A" does on literally every other controller with the same general shape, and on controllers in general, the bottom-most face button is generally used to proceed.

There is no other reason. X as "Go" makes about as much sense as O would for a westerner.

Triangle to go back at least makes sense since it's like an arrow, and would indicate "Go up one level" like through a computer directory.

>living in a shithole that allows any mark and doesn't require complete filling of the circle to count as a proper vote

get out

It is also hardware encoded, which means games like Trine if you play on a PS3 from Asia are fucking broken because of development oversights.

Its japan what the fuck do you expect

It's been like this since the earliest Nintendo days. I mean A (confirm) being on the right and B on the left (NES), the SNES added two additional buttons and A was where O is on Playstation. Japs still have it that way and in the West we have it inverted.

Sega messed it all up switching the positions of A/B and X/Y, then Microsoft copied it and today we think it's wrong in Japan, but it's really not, looking at the history of controllers.

>Because it occupies the position "A" does on literally every other controller with the same general shape, and on controllers in general, the bottom-most face button is generally used to proceed.

are you fucking retarded, nintendo consoles have the A button for confirm, which is equivalent to the O on sony consoles.

It might be an alphabet order thing. A is usually jump and it comes before B. O is before X so?

>that button placement
>symmetrical analog sticks
fucking heresy

It's actually an incredibly comfortable controller.

Does japanese Nintendo consoles have "a b x y r l" on their controlers? Those aren't even characters fron their language why would it be there? Does it also have the word "power" on it? This is nutz, makes no sense

Japanese think O(まる) is good word.
O is accept button.

Japanese think X(ばつ) is negative word.
X is cancel button.

It's actually because O is correct and X is incorrect on tests.

The fuck is the point in the triangle, square, and circle usage?

O = 1 Stroke to draw = Button 1
X = 2 strokes to draw = Button 2
/_\ = 3 strokes to draw = Button 3
[] = 4 strokes to draw = Button 4

>Because it occupies the position "A" does on literally every other controller with the same general shape, and on controllers in general, the bottom-most face button is generally used to proceed.

Nintendo (barring the gamecube) would like a word with you.

A better question is

What the FUCK was up with the button layout on FF8?
>X confirm
>Triangle cancel
>CIRCLE menu

square is for your map.

No, a check mark is incorrect.

Basically O = circling the right answer and X = crossing out the wrong answer. Ergo, O = Accept and X = Cancel.

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They even had "select" and "start" on Famicom controllers.

Any explanation? I bet my virgin ass that if a console comes with Japanese buttons all Americans will flip their shit... why Japanese didn't flip theirs for this?