I figured out why oldschool gamers dislike Sony

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VicViper said:

Train wreck said:
Sony having alphabet characters on their controllers would give more fuel to the fire for Nintendo fans in terms of copying (Its ok for Sega and MS though) so they changed shapes and Konami adjusted accordingly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Konami_code_games

Call it EFGH then! Seriously, triangle, square... worst decision ever in the history of naming buttons (well, in their defense, aside from this one there are very few other bad decisions :) !!)

No wait, Microsoft... how could they invert the position of the A and B (and X and Y) from the standard - it's impossible for any nintendo fan to play that thing! And how could they name buttons " " and " " on the original Xbox controller too?

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/the-sony-playstations-buttons-get-explained-by-their-designer-20100826/

 

Triangle represents viewpoint, for camera control. I also associate it with an arrow. It was jump in many games.
square represents a piece of paper, instantly recognizable as the final fantasy character sheet button.
x in Japan means no
circle in Japan means yes (instead of check)

All the buttons actually have a significance. Best designed buttons ever.