Why did Xbox have to deviate from the One True ABXY Layout?

i mean, its a pc controller. One would assume they put in a mouse wheel for menus/games that used it, like for weapon selecting

No, removing those buttons wasn't neat.

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Xbox was just following the Sega controller lineage. Then again, zoomers don't know Sega used to make consoles.

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>yfw the X button isn't used the most for Xbox games

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It scrolls

PlayStation has a cross

>cross
It's fork.

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Its just a X. Like the letter X. Fucking weebs.

The fact that it's blue on both Xbox and PlayStation confuses me so often

Because SEGA does what Ninten-don't.

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>three shapes
>and a letter
That's retarded.
>inb4 "fork isn't a shape"
It is.

its the letter chi, a most ancient letter

i guess they didn't feel like coloring XYZ?

Nintendo ironically has the worst layout. Im not so mad about where a & b are and moreso that x and y dont fall on their respective axis

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Sega got it right, Nintendo got it backwards.

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>x and y dont fall on their respective axis
Why is this everyone's go-to complaint? How do you feel when there's a Z button?

the z axis is correct though since its behind the x and y

Some pronounce it "kye" but the meaning is still the same.

I just found the fact that Microsoft actually made those controllers in the 90s, and then kept their legacy placement just, you know, kinda neat. Means when they got to the xbox controller they hadn't just pulled the buttons out of a hat, they used their legacy controllers as inspiration

Obviously it's a copyright/patent issue.

This. The Xbox was, after all, in some ways, a spiritual successor of sorts to the Dreamcast.

>NES era
>A is the main action button, B is secondary button

>SNES era
>now B is the main action button and Y is secondary, but a lot of games still use A for menu navigation confirmation, and some games even use A for the main action button and X as the secondary button

absolutely genius layout, nintendo

than sony halfway copied it and we ended up with the same sort of clusterfuck where some games use O to confirm and X to cancel, and others use X to confirm and O to cancel, and some use X as the main action button and some don't

let's also not forget about the dumbshit "Z" and then "L/R, ZL/ZR" nomenclature they have going on when the rest of the civilized world uses the much more sensible "L1/L2, R1/R2" layout

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>where some games use O to confirm and X to cancel, and others use X to confirm and O to cancel
It is about cultural differences.
For japanese people O - means yes and X - no.
But geniuses at SOA decided it was more intuitive for westerners to press X for accept.

And to this day if you will imports PS game from japan, you will need to press O as yes.

Sega's dead bucko

you're right in part, but don't forget that sony was working on the next nintendo console for a while, and the playstation controller is clearly a takeaway from that (being SNES inspired). i think the X/O distinction is partly a carry-over from the SNES where A (which is in the location of the O button) was used for menu confirmation (especially in JRPGs, which is where we see it most often on playstations), but B was used as the "action button" in a lot of games. i'm guessing SOA got the idea that X should be the do-all button for the west, for whatever reason. who knows?

>Playing Dark Souls Remastered in switch
>B is confirm/skip dialogue, A is cancel/Dodge
>Die three times because I give the wrong item to Snuggly, press A to skip the the text and backwards dodge off the platform
And I’ve already beaten the game
Was it so hard to remap?

>tiny japanese hands tiny penis need to press the right button as accept because have to stretch for any other one
>normal western hands press need to press the bottom button as accept because that's where a normal sized hand's finger naturally defaults to
>consoles are made by mostly japanese
i don't get what's so hard to understand