It's only wrong because the Xbox controller is more ubiquitous than Nintendo's controllers and thus became the new standard. As someone who also grew up on Nintendo consoles, I remember it took me a while to adapt to it, but since I shifted towards PC gaming it became my new standard too

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

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.