Fact: The PlayStation, Xbox, and the Nintendo consoles starting with the Super Nintendo all have the blue "X" button. The Neo-Geo and the 3DO are the ones that don't have the "X" button.
I play Steam games with a variety of controllers which often don't match the on-screen prompts, so I like to think of them like Unity describes its inputs: north, south, east and west.
Yup. For the holidays, I settled on that when playing a multiplayer game on a docked Steam Deck with 4 players (some non-gamers) where some had PlayStation controllers and others had switch controllers. I'd say "press South to select". The game is Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed BTW.
You ever notice that not only does almost every controller have an x button, every controller with colored buttons (with the exception of dreamcast) uses blue for x?
better one is up, left, right, down also inside and outside is confusing how would I know what the outside or inside button if you told me Id be clueless unless you pointed it out
No offense but the fighting game community solved this years ago. They have all the right face buttons numbered 1-4 in order of left, up, down, and right. Xbox for example would be. X as 1, Y as 2, A as 3, B as 4. If you use that same layout for every controller then you now have a universal method of addressing all right face buttons. Nice vid tho.
Thats why menus in the switch usually don't uae labels
Fact: The PlayStation, Xbox, and the Nintendo consoles starting with the Super Nintendo all have the blue "X" button.
The Neo-Geo and the 3DO are the ones that don't have the "X" button.
I play Steam games with a variety of controllers which often don't match the on-screen prompts, so I like to think of them like Unity describes its inputs: north, south, east and west.
Yup. For the holidays, I settled on that when playing a multiplayer game on a docked Steam Deck with 4 players (some non-gamers) where some had PlayStation controllers and others had switch controllers. I'd say "press South to select".
The game is Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed BTW.
You ever notice that not only does almost every controller have an x button, every controller with colored buttons (with the exception of dreamcast) uses blue for x?
Gamecube controllers are another outlier, but good catch! I never noticed the consistency!
I'd actually love to have a cursed controller with GameCube, Xbox 360, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch X buttons all in one. Sounds like fun
The switch's little symbols are nice, and most button icon packs have them. I think they're a decent universal option.
I like to use the playstation style of calling the shoulder buttons l1 r1 l2 r2 because the sticks are called l3 and r3
Love it!
I've seen North East South and West for face buttons too, but I doubt that works for younger kids.
This is pretty good for game development in general, using generalized icons that show positions allows you to have one universal controller layout.
better one is up, left, right, down also inside and outside is confusing how would I know what the outside or inside button if you told me Id be clueless unless you pointed it out
Emulationstation uses something similar to this I believe. Makes playing games easier when me and my buds all use different controllers lol
No offense but the fighting game community solved this years ago. They have all the right face buttons numbered 1-4 in order of left, up, down, and right. Xbox for example would be. X as 1, Y as 2, A as 3, B as 4. If you use that same layout for every controller then you now have a universal method of addressing all right face buttons. Nice vid tho.
I disagree on the triggers though
L1 L2 L3 R1 R2 R3 are perfect but the face buttons work
You might have to say "click the (left/right) stick" if others don't understand L3 or R3.
no.
Womp womp
Hey watch it you young whippersnapper you
I've always just referred to them with cardinal directions: N, E, S, W