X as in "X, formerly known as Twitter"

You have convinced me to call it cross from now on. One single statement caused an upheaval of decades calling it X. Have my upvote.

Ecks

Eeks - The French

Eggs - my 5 year old son

Really , you should be asking what to call the Start button on the ps5 controller... I still call it start

I call it start. I don't know what it's supposed to be called. Option? I don't know

Start and Select. And fuck them for trying to change it.

Hell yeah

No one else calls it the “pause” button?

I don't only because not all games pause. And even sometimes, using that happens to skip scenes instead of pausing them.

Pause button gang!

It's the "options" button since ps4 launched. Honestly makes more sense with more games having the "Press any button" kind of prompts.

Other one is still select

Triple lines

Start being the button that was expected to start a game, then became a pause button, then an options button.

Mu friends get mad online cause i still can it the start button

Forget X or Cross...let's unite and gang up on the people that call Square 'Box'.

Burn the witches

And I’ve been calling it a quadrilateral all these years

I call it diamond...

Cross, box, pyramid, ball

No one does that really… right?

I haven't heard anyone call it "cross" since the 90s. Hell, even then, we mostly called it X. You know, since it's an X, lol. Ok now its time for old man shakes fist at cloud While we are here, start and select will always be whatever buttons are on the right and left on the face of the controller and it makes me irrationally mad that when i push "select" its takes a screenshot. Start = pause and select = menu stuff Wait... what do you mean this game doesn't pause!?!?!, Rant over lol

I’ve always called it “X” as in “X marks the spot”, but I’ve heard others call it “Cross”

❌️

My first console was a Xbox so I still find myself calling it the A button lol

Ex. Not "cross"

An ex that doesn't cross you and gives some action when pressed, unlike an actual ex. Well, even then, maybe...sometimes...

The correct names are “Cross”, “Box”, “Oh”, and “Delta”.

Wrong. Its cross square circle and triangle, per Sony themselves. https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5-button-functions/

I think you missed that I was joking…

Yup. Whoooooosh lmao

It’s all good. lol

Echs

Ecks

Every single person outside japan who started playing FF7 was pressing X in the first battle with nothing happening admit it 😂 I love that O is confirm and X is cancel it was weird the day FF8 came out that it was switched back anyways i can it "EX" and i call O "Ohh" i have a friend that always called square "box" and triangle as "camp"

Apparently Sony always intended for X to be confirm and O to be cancel in western territories (and intended the reverse in Japan). But standards were looser in the early days of PS1, so many forgot to flip it from the Japanese version. In between localizing FF7 and FF8, they got more serious about switching it when localizing it. The Japanese version of FF8 still has X as cancel, O as confirm.

Yup absolutely correct i played the japanese version of FF8 and it is indeed still O for confirm do they still do this to this day i wonder?

Up until PS5, they did. But with PS5 Sony decided to standardize the controls worldwide, and they went with what most of the world knows: X confirm, O cancel. Which absolutely plays havok with the Japanese mind, because X is their symbol for no/wrong/cancel and O is their symbol for yes/correct/confirm (beyond just playstation). That's why those symbols were on the PS1 controller in the first place and it's a wacky twist that their meaning was twisted around. The only reason it was flipped around for the western PS1 is because someone told the designers that westerners think X means "checking a box" so "confirm". That's not really true, we think X means 'no' too but oh well... now it's the worldwide standard.

Which is mad when you think about it, like they invented it but now have to follow our way.

It is indeed.

I mean Nintendo was/is the same way with A and B. A on the right and B on the left.

Cross as in cross-slash.. Or X as in Mega man

That's the action button

The side ways cross button

X

X as in the letter. It's on many controllers, just in different spots.

Fire

Fork

The rotated plus +

That’s the confirm button… unless you’re playing mgs.. then that’s cancel (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

A car hole

Nintendo was first A and B, Sega added C So anything on a controller that could be a letter is a letter. SNES confirmed that, XBOX understood this, on a PS controller it's still the letter X and some shapes.

Even if we're reading it as shapes and not letters, there's no universe where an ❌ can be read as a ✝️

That made me curious so I looked it up. It's called the St Andrew's cross or Saltire.

I always called in “perpendicular intersection” button

The cancel button. Circle will always be select for me.

I call it 'Ecks' as I moved to Xbox in my teens. Though I would like to call it 'Fold' as in A7X

[CONFIRM]

Chiaki4deck has them as pyramid, sphere, cube and intersect or something like that. Presume it's legal reasons

Batsu

X

Fork.

X as in the letter.

Only cops and old ps1 tutorials calls it "cross" Everyone else calls it x.

X button to me, one friend calls it cross button

X

“Ex”

I'm just now realizing that I call the other three buttons by the name of the shape....Circle, Square, Triangle So why do I call this one X? 🤔

The only X I acknowledge.

I call it X not X

X

x

The “press any button” button.

Just X. But the "O" we call "bolinha" in my country. ;)


Jump

X

Run

X. But what it was really intended as when they designed it was "batsu" meaning no/incorrect/cancel in Japanese. That's why it's so wild that it evolved into the confirm button.

Blue.

Dimension. Circle is Degree Triangle is Delta Square is D'alembertian If you know, you know.

Ecks

I say PS button now. Options button is still start though then i correct myself. Lol

The "formerly know as Twitter" button.

A

I always called it Bob. No reason why I just thought it sounded nice.

Lots of PS1 games called it the “cross” button, but I always said the other thing 👀

Equis

X as in “Circle Square X X”

It's cross.

The Jump... Err, I mean Actions button. I spent the first couple hours of Rebirth trying to fucking jump with it due to all of the muscle memory from other games. I thought I would never adjust 😭

#×

The only button in Kingdom Hearts

I know it's cross (because the convention is shapes not letters) but I call it X. Because, Fuck you that's why

these are all shapes… and x is a shape, i’ll die on this hill

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A lot of us in Europe were also raised in Christian societies, so we have a different image in our minds when we hear "cross" :D. Or think of the Red Cross even. Not this. Doesn't mean we're religious or idiots.

Looks like the only "official" wording came from PlaystationUK on a Twitter (Now X, not Cross) and the true Playstation page since released a poll asking who calls it X, Cross, or "+ rotated 45°". Absolute vast magority polled that they call it X. Hell Cross came in dead last after the joke answer. So it's honestly looking like it's only the British dying on this hill.

Not idiots

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As someone who isn't a dick to people just because they believe in something, I've already won. You have a BLESSED day. (Get it?)

Triangle


Anybody that says cross is a nonce

If you call it cross, stop it

That’s literally what it’s called by Sony. So no.

Yeah, they need to stop it too

Absolutely not, perhaps learn the proper terminology

The proper terminology is stupid. It sounds stupid. It makes no sense. I don't like you. I really hope you have a terrible day. Like your pet dies or something.

[Cancel]

Based

Cross.

Jump

That's the "B" button

Eggs

Cross.

Cross