I forget if I ever shared this thing I made back in the day.

  • neoman4426@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    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.

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      8 days ago

      That makes a lot of sense. They just decided “screw it. Westerns read backwards so like yeah probably everything else is backwards too?”

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      9 days ago

      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.

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        3 days ago

        i mean if you’ve never used a playstation the same would presumably be true all over the world, “cancel” is symbolized by X

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        8 days ago

        Originally, O was meant to be accept, and X was meant to be discard/etc., but this Japanese cultural artifact got lost in translation.