Heavybell@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoEksbawkslemmy.worldimagemessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageEksbawkslemmy.worldHeavybell@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square18linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareneoman4426@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days agoInterestingly, the Playstation one officially isn’t the letter X, it’s “Cross” according to Sony. But pretty much no one ever actually uses that name.
minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoThat makes a lot of sense. They just decided “screw it. Westerns read backwards so like yeah probably everything else is backwards too?”
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-29 days agoSony (via PS5) also finally standardized X Accept and O Back globally. It was backwards in Japan because X meant No and O meant Yes.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoi mean if you’ve never used a playstation the same would presumably be true all over the world, “cancel” is symbolized by X
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoOriginally, O was meant to be accept, and X was meant to be discard/etc., but this Japanese cultural artifact got lost in translation.
Interestingly, the Playstation one officially isn’t the letter X, it’s “Cross” according to Sony. But pretty much no one ever actually uses that name.
That makes a lot of sense. They just decided “screw it. Westerns read backwards so like yeah probably everything else is backwards too?”
Sony (via PS5) also finally standardized X Accept and O Back globally. It was backwards in Japan because X meant No and O meant Yes.
i mean if you’ve never used a playstation the same would presumably be true all over the world, “cancel” is symbolized by X
Originally, O was meant to be accept, and X was meant to be discard/etc., but this Japanese cultural artifact got lost in translation.