It’s select and start.
What’s it supposed to be, windows and hamburgers?I won’t give it up. Select and Start.
My wife makes fun of me for it whenever we play couch co-op games. “What do you mean press start? My controller doesn’t have a Start”
“Press the button formerly known as Start”
So you married her for her looks, it could be worse.
I mean, she’s still a gamer at least…
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This is the way.
The touchpad is just “big select”.
I’m not sure who in the name of all fuck decided that controllers should have a dedicated Tweeting button, but I suspect this gen will be the last of that.
a dedicated Tweeting button
Wait what?
Well, it’s called a Share button I think, but I can’t find any way to actually share screenshots other than Twitter.
So I don’t use it.
Share
Awesome, I’ll send this to some friends!
Only on these platforms. No, you can’t send it to people on your friends list, what are you stupid?
Could we take the guy who put a dedicated screenshot button on the controller instead of another options button and drown him in the nearest septic tank?
Had this argument with someone a couple days ago. Said my start button was sticking and they gave me shit for it.
I am not a violent man. I do my best to be as kind and caring as possible. I wanted to drown him.
That’s entirely reasonable and even noble.
Good to know I was justified
Curiously enough, the “start” button is now more of a “pause” button. Sometimes also a “skip cutscene” and “open menu” button. Microsoft was into something by actually renaming it to “menu” in the Xbox, since that’s what it’s used for nowadays. Sony probably chose to call it “options” on the PS4 onwards solely to avoid being sued for plagiarism.
Did the buttons really need renaming? It’s not like options and share or + and - make any more sense
I get being nostalgic for Start/Select but how does Options/Share not make more sense? The options button brings up a menu of options for most games and share allows you to share screenshots or video from the game. Whereas start did the same thing options does now which has nothing to do with the word Start and Select was sorta a catch all button for an action you only used occasionally, but was never used for selecting which was usually X but sometimes one of the other shapes.
Options I kinda get but it sounds dumb to me, would’ve been better as “menu” because it’s not exclusively for options, also for pausing and other menus.
Share isn’t what that button normally does at all in my mind, sure maybe PlayStation have it bound to that but normally it brings up an alternate menu to start that isn’t the pause menu (like in Minecraft and overwatch it brings up player list/scoreboard as an example
A lot of games I believe use it for the map too
I haven’t played Overwatch or Minecraft but every game I’ve played with one of those options used pressing in the touchpad to do that. I’ve never played a game where the share button didn’t share somehow.
I just looked it up and for Minecraft it’s used to take a screenshot or bring up a screenshot menu. I couldn’t find anything for Overwatch though. Are you sure you didn’t remap the button? Or are you using it for PC? It might work different in that case.
I do agree that menu would’ve been a better name, but that doesn’t mean that Options doesn’t make more sense than Start which is what the original comment said.
I was thinking of java edition Minecraft which I now realize I made my own configuration for
Still, not sure where I’ve got it from but I’ve definitely got the idea the select button is for menus that aren’t the start menu
Is that functionality for share a console specific thing? I don’t remember any games that used it for that purpose (on pc)
I think it’s specifically a PS4/PS5 thing. I couldn’t find other controllers with an Options/Share combination. And I imagine if you use a PS4/PS5 controller for PC, it handles it differently. But it makes sense since the controller wasn’t designed for that.
For the switch, plus and minus have a symbolic benefit of matching their position on the console itself when the joycons are detached. It’s not significant enough to warrant the rename but it at least is more than just a rename.
But…we have two buttons right? The right one was always start and the left one was options ig? I’m an Xbox 360 player
start and select
This habit is pre Xbox 360
Start and Back, respectively. Now it’s “Menu” and “View”
…or possibly “hamburger” and “restore window to smaller size”. Because that’s logical?
I’m the same with Nintendos new controllers.
➕ and ➖ are Start and Select to me.
Everytime I start up Burnout: Paradise Remastered it tells me to hit Options to start the game. No! It’s Start to start!
Blasphemy
So… I believe I’m old now…
*insert “I’m in this meme and I don’t like it” picture.
I will always call it the start button, but to be honest, menu or options are better names for what it does.
Same, but never liked options as the name though sounds like that should be the word to replace ‘select’. Menu is an adequate replacement for ‘start’. Won’t call it that but makes sense.
Unpopular Opinion: The Playstation Controllers dont have an X button. Everyone should be calling it cross and would save so much confusion. Like there is a triangle, a circle, a square and another geometric shape. Hate having to specify when playing couch coop with friends if they have to press the xbox x or the playstation x. I know with nintendo people it gets even worse.
That’s not even an opinion, it’s fact. PlayStation calls it the cross button. Watch Dogs Legion has an accessibility option to read things out that’s permanently turned on for the opening menu. It says “Press the cross button”. Various manuals and in game text say cross too.
That being said I will be rotting in hell before I ever call it the cross button.
Had me in the first half. But I like your gusto
I hate that Xbox stole the buttons from Nintendo and then swapped them over just to fuck with me more.
Between Sony, MS, Nintendo and Gamecube Nintendo, the X button can be in four different places.
RIP Sega
Well, SNES had YXBA first I guess. But I forgot that Sega also evolved from 12 to ABC to XYZABC, back to XYAB.
It’s weird watching these controller layouts come in and change over time, and then Sony just go “no, like this” and suddenly that’s the standard. DualShock really was a great design and a massive improvement for anyone with adult sized hands.
They didn’t steal it from Nintendo. It was a carryover from their collaboration with Sega on the Dreamcast. [link] (https://news.microsoft.com/1998/05/21/microsoft-sega-collaborate-on-dreamcast-the-ultimate-home-video-game-system/)
On one hand yeah sure back in the day I get it.
Now dang near every game is press x to continue/begin so the start button just begs a question.
Start and Select for life. SNES was my first gamepad.
Brother
My nephew was so confused when I kept telling him to press “Select” when we played on a PS5.
You must teach the boy the old ways.
