Other game companies at the time assigned alphabet letters or colors to the buttons. We wanted something ... and I came up with the triangle-circle-X-square combination immediately afterward.

Crosses form a square. – Exes don’t have the same distance between each stick. – Exes form a rectangle. It’s not any kind of secret that the X button’s official designation is Cross.

Is it the X or the Cross button? Most sane individuals have settled on simply calling it X, but those who insist on calling it Cross still crop up from time to time. The two types of people had ...

The triangle, circle, square, and cross (or ‘X’) buttons have featured on every PlayStation console from the original through to the PS5, but while these shapes may just seem like a way for ...

It turns out, that “X” button (commonly pronounced “ex ... "Triangle. Circle. Cross. Square," PlayStation UK tweeted. "If Cross is called X (it's not), then what are you calling Circle?" ...

No doubt having seen the X button debate raging across the internet for the past week and a half, the official Xbox Twitter account is getting in on the action. If you somehow don't know what we ...

Since the release of the original PlayStation in 1994, four buttons have been accessible on the right side of the controller: the square, triangle, “X” and “O” buttons. When making choices ...

In context: When the PlayStation debuted, it didn't use numbers or letters to designate its primary buttons but rather, symbols - square, X, O and a triangle. At that point, it likely came down to ...

In Japan, the O button has functioned as the confirm/yes button, and the X button to cancel/go back, since the very first PlayStation. That will change starting next generation with the PlayStation 5.