I see. I couldn't tell due to youtube's crappy resolution. In that case, I take back what I said.

What you mean by shapes being more confusing than random letters?

You talk like people are born knowing what A and B does. The shapes make perfect sense to me

In pretty much every gaming console that has an "A"/"B" config, "A" is "confirm" and "B" is "back". Universally. It takes all of a few minutes for anybody to catch onto that, and they stay caught on.

The Playstation doesn't have a universal setup like that. The "shapes" can't make perfect sense to you because they don't have a way that makes sense. Sony doesn't even have a uniform way they use them!

Doesn't have to make sense, once you get the circle confirms and X is back, it stay caught on as well.

It was a big mistake when sony changed it, though. I remember back in the PS1 days, X confirmed, and now they changed, but i got used to it in minutes. Also, in the PSP, X still confirms.

Sony screwed up a little, but i don't see why shapes are worse than letters. Damn, look at the 64 and gamecube controls where they throw in Z, W, X, now that's confusing to me >.

All of this, of course, unless you have a Japanese console (like my friend) where X and O are opposite each other, which is horrible. Is that how all console controllers are in Japan, or just the PlayStation? Because that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of..

It does explain why those buttons do the same in Metal Gear Solid series though - I've always wondered why O selected and X was cancel/back.

Well, my console is from Singapore, and O is confirm and X is back, in most of my games it's like this too, except GTA IV.

whats wrong with it? now i know how to change the visualiser

Nothing's wrong just glad you have that Eagles pic as your avatar.lol

44 to 3 Eagles beat the Cowboy's...haha!!!!

Problem is, circle doesn't confirm all the time, and x isn't always back. It's a more common problem on PS1, and still very frequent on PS2, although less so. I'm not sure how it goes on PS3. I do know that Soul Calibur III on the PS2 uses triangle and square for back, with X and Circle both as confirm. That's just an example.

Like I said, there isn't a uniform way for it to go. Sony's tried pushing one, but even they have changed how they did it.

64/GCN/Wii have all still done the same thing with the basics that the NES/SNES did - "A" is always confirm, and "B" is always back. Same on Xbox and Xbox 360. I'm fairly certain it's also the same on SEGA's systems, but I may be wrong. They may have added a bunch of buttons, but then, a lot of people got confused with L1/L2 and R1/R2 too. Those are a different story, though, than just navigational buttons.

i dont see whats wrong with it