Turns out Playstation?s ?X? button Isn?t

[Xprimentyl]

Apparently, we?ve been calling Sony Playstation?s Dual Shock ?X? button by the wrong name [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49662096] this whole time.

Not even sure why or how this even came up, but in the defense of 81% of the logically thinking world, the other three buttons are clear representations of basic shapes whereas an ?X?, whether marking a spot or being willfully ignored at the end of French words, is ?X.? Maybe they should have made it a ?+?, but screaming ?HIT PLUS SIGN!!? at the top of one?s lungs during a tense QTE section of Heavy Rain 2: JA-SON!! doesn?t roll off the tongue so nicely.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

#NotMyButton

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Sure, that's fine. Still gonna call it "X" tho.

 

[CaitSeith]

Sorry Sony, but Nintendo already owns the only true "+" button...

 

[CritialGaming]

Why would they say this? Why would they suddenly come out and challenge wtf everyone has been calling their button for 20 fucking years? They've known this whole time what people have been calling it!

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

There is something inherently, eternally amusing about a creator coming out to clarify a trivial detail, only for the rest of the entire world to shout back "NOOO, IDIOT!" Like when that gif dude tried claiming it was pronounced "jif." All I can imagine is their wife, dogs, mother and children all shaking their head in shame at their loved one's fated attempt, with the implied look of "I told you so, we told you so, but you didn't listen and now look at you. Idiot."

 

[Drathnoxis]

Okay, an X is a cross, yes... Why does this matter? I'm sure it's called something different in every language out there. I doubt they call it cross in Japanese (though they could, Japanese do use English words from time to time) so it's 'true' name would be whatever the Japanese word for cross is, since they made the thing.

Kleenex is a brand name, but that doesn't stop a large number people asking for a kleenex rather than a, hold on... 'facial tissue.' Arguments over semantics are the lowest form of communication. People have different words for the same things. English is such a colossal mess there's no fixing it now, so why worry?

 

[sXeth]

Oh I knew it was technically the Cross button, from reading PS1 game manuals way back in when.

Nintendo and Sega got everyone in the habit of letter buttons though.

They do make a fair point though, no one thought Circle was an O button.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Okay, an X is a cross, yes... Why does this matter? I'm sure it's called something different in every language out there. I doubt they call it cross in Japanese (though they could, Japanese do use English words from time to time) so it's 'true' name would be whatever the Japanese word for cross is, since they made the thing.

Probably something like 'ku-rossu' because Japan doesn't like syllables ending with consonants.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

In Jp it's the batsu sign which is basically the "wrong" indicator that you'd see for example on a test answer, whereas the circle is the "correct" mark. Explains why circle is confirm and X is cancel in Jp styled controls and FFVII now doesn't it!

 

[Meximagician]

Considering the Japanese probably call it a 'batsu' (an X shape often made with the arms to say 'no', 'nothing', or 'no good') and considering the batsu has pretty much no meaning and little use outside of Japan... Yeah I don't see the point of trying to get everyone to change to a different name now.

Slightly curious why the X button is blue though. Blue typically means 'go' in Japan. Japanese stoplights have the same three colors most of the rest of the world uses, but for some reason Japanese refers to the green light as 'blue'. And yet the X button in most Japanese games sends you back, while the red circle button sends you forward.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Yeah, I new it was Cross for a while already.

But honestly? X is faster to say, and speed of communication is everything in gaming.

 

[ChupathingyX]

In 1999 Hunter told me it was pronounced "x" and I've stuck with that ever since.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Sometime next decade they?ll tell us that ?square? is actually ?box?. Then, sometime before PS8 launches they?ll tell us ?triangle? is actually ?pyramid?.

 

[Hawki]

It's called a cross button?

That sounds X-tremely silly.

 

[Saelune]

I say 'Street Fighter ehcks Tekken' and I aint stopping now. It actually makes sense thinking about it though, as it is meant cross like two lines crossing eachother, as opposed to a Christian 'Cross'. They also usually call -cross-over games IP cross Other IP.

Still going to call it 'Ehcks' though.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

On one hand I assumed as much, on the other handI'm still gonna call the Cross button the X button and the Circle Button the O Button. They'll never stop me.

 

[BrawlMan]

They do make a fair point though, no one thought Circle was an O button.

You'd be surprised with that one. While it does not happen nearly as much, unless you encounter someone who does not game period, there was a time you some gamers (mostly kids under 13) refer circle as the O button. This was common in the ps1/2 days.

 

[bluegate]

Not that it matters how anyone pronounces the buttons, they are basic shapes, not letters.

A bit sad how media latches on to the most insignificant things all the time though, can someone find Halliday's prize and turn off the internet for 5 days a week so that news outlets will only cover the really important stuff in the 2 days they are allowed to operate online?

 

[Kwak]

Not that it matters how anyone pronounces the buttons, they are basic shapes, not letters.

A bit sad how media latches on to the most insignificant things all the time though, can someone find Halliday's prize and turn off the internet for 5 days a week so that news outlets will only cover the really important stuff in the 2 days they are allowed to operate online?

Yes, this is literally the only story in THE MEDIA right now, gee they're such hacks. Thank god we're not stupid sheep though right?