What are your thoughts on this theory? Do not post quotes from the 1UP interview with the designer of the controller, Teiji Goto. He's full of shit and hardly any games follow his "philosophy" (square for menu? top kek).
>PS3 controller
>click bait subject line
>top kek
Leave and don't come back. Even when you turn turn 18, please don't come back.
>>3081039
The fuck're you talking about m8? Just because the picture is of a PS3 controller, doesn't mean it isn't relevant to a PS1 controller. Faggot.
>>3081039
Maybe ps3 is retro to him, since it's what he played when he was 5 years old just like me and NES.
>>3081034
Herro, my name is Ickuru MEETASU. Chief head designer of the praystation controller.
You have done very good work in finding this out, senpai. When I, Ickuru MEETASU designed this controller I got idea from keyboard. Keyboard say to me, "look! look at keys!" so I look at keys and see!
I am very much proud of you for discovering hidden eastel egg.
>>3081054
>Holy fuck the cancer is strong.
Did you read that part where I said you should leave?
>>3081034
So you think the Japanese company, full of japanese designers, looked at an American keyboard and designed their japanese controller to correspond to english keys?
>>3081060
>this idiot thinks Japs don't use QWERTY keyboards
>>3081058
Don't you have children to kill, cancer faggot?
>>3081034
What do triangles have to do with delta exactly?
>>3081065
You really think that, don't you?
>>3081076
Playstation was developed in the early 90s.. Try again, nigger.
>>3081070
The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (Δ). If you'd look it up, a better question would be what doesn't delta have to do with triangles?
>>3081076
Lmao what the fuck is that
>>3081076
>this keyboard doesn't feature a QWERTY layout
I just figured they were based on the number of lines used to create the shapes.
Circle = one line
Cross = two lines
Triangle = three lines
Square = four lines
>>3081101
Noone actually uses that shit.
>>3081115
No one uses the Kanji keyboard is more like it. This nigger obviously knows nothing about the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS). The JIS, keyboard layout keeps the Roman letters in the English QWERTY layout, with numbers above them
>>3081115
By design or coincidence?
I just realized that the L button on an SNES/N64 controller is on the [L]eft side and the R button is on the [R]ight side. Could that have been intentional? Is it the same way on a Playstation controller? I always thought they were the [R]ear buttons but they didn't know whether to label them L or R because of Japanese/English phonetics issues, and they just used both to cover their bases.
>>3081034
>first-person view
>map______Yes
>_____No
>>3081034
I think it's pretty obvious this is a coincidence or (more accurately) a contrivance
>Japanese controller representing English QWERTY keyboard layout by the first letter of the English spelling of the shape... except triangle - we'll use the Greek word for that.
>>3081145
>Could that have been intentional?
Obviously, dipshit. Were you born retarded or did it happen in an accident?
>>3081150
This nigga has never played Chrono Trigger or FFVI. You do realize games are developed on PC, right?
You guys sure are mad today :D
>>3081150
The Greek word for triangle is trigono. Do some research before trying to insult someone's intelligence, m8.
>>3081156
I have no idea what point you're trying to make but I have boxed copies of both those games on SNES
>>3081171
>boxed copies
If you'd played them, you'd know the word delta is used in those games to describe attacks having something to do with triangles.
>>3081168
I wasn't trying to insult anyone's inteligence but I'll be happy to insult yours.
>τρίγωνο
>>3081151
Took the bait when none was laid. Trolled HARD.
>>3081176
Yes, Delta is a general description of a triangle formation but it's a contrivance to suggest that Δ=D whatever your rationale may be
>>3081187
三角洲 Delta
三角 Triangle
>>3081187
>japanese developed game where triangle attack is referred to as delta, but it is out of the question that a button on a controller where there is no shape that begins with the letter d would be referred to the same way
>>3081204
SO, ITS BASICALLY THE SAME WORD?
>>3081138
Lel
>>3081151
That there was a joke, son!
![59297-84[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/3nlNmZA.png "59297-84[1].png")
>>3081209
>there is no shape that begins with the letter d
>>3081076
Lived and worked in Japan for 12 years, NEVER saw one of these.
>>3081238
STOP MAKING CONTRIVANCES, THAT IS A PENIS. HOW YOU GET D FROM PENIS, I'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND, BECAUSE I'M A SIMPLE MINDED SHITHEAD
>>3081034
Good show, m8. God forbid anyone on /vr/ ever accepted anything that wasn't forced down their throat by Jews, or discovered anything on their own.
>/vr/
HOLY FUCK THIS IS /vr/? I was sure I was on /v/. You guys have brain damage! Taste the Chrome
>Other game companies at the time assigned alphabet letters or colors to the buttons. We wanted something simple to remember, which is why we went with icons or symbols, and I came up with the triangle-circle-X-square combination immediately afterward. I gave each symbol a meaning and a color. The triangle refers to viewpoint; I had it represent one's head or direction and made it green. Square refers to a piece of paper; I had it represent menus or documents and made it pink. The circle and X represent 'yes' or 'no' decision-making and I made them red and blue respectively. People thought those colors were mixed up, and I had to reinforce to management that that's what I wanted.
---Teiyu Goto, Sony engineer
In Japanese the circle has the same meaning as the checkmark. yes/affirmative
The X means no/negative.
This is why Japanese PS1 games have reversed confirm and backout buttons in menus and dialog compared to localized games.
>>3081473
>This is why Japanese PS1 games have reversed confirm and backout buttons in menus and dialog compared to localized games.
Always annoyed me for a bit before I could get used to it.
Yes, this quote is correct. They used the symbols to indicate the purpose of the buttons.
>>3081484
And BASED Kojima had them stay like that in the US release of MGS1. Confusing at first for all of us, but based as hell.
At least I think it was him, someone had to call that one out.
>>3081473
>Do not post quotes from the 1UP interview with the designer of the controller, Teiji Goto
Got his name wrong, but apply the rule, guy.
>>3081034
Cross doesn't begin with an 'x'.
>>3081034
O is commonly associated with 'correct' and X is 'incorrect'.
Triangle was meant to be an arrow for association with maps and interaction. The Square was meant to be a page in a book, for menus.
Bait thread, but eh...
PS1 button design originates from the SNES button design, mantaining the order of the buttons
A = 1st button = 1 Line Shape = Circle
B = 2nd button = 2 Lines Shape = X
X = 3rd button = 3 Lines Shape = Triangle
Y = 4th button = 4 Lines Shape = Square
Literally every other explanation is either a happy coincidence noticed since the very early stages of the design and thus used a "also" explanation(i.e. O confirm, X cancel) or a made up one that only fits because it's made up trying to justify the design(i.e. Square because it represents menus, etc).
>>3081150
Delta is a letter.
>>3081101
>>this keyboard doesn't feature a QWERTY layout
posts keyboard from an "unnormal" pc.
>>3081034
It's the number of lines.
Circle has one line
Cross has two lines
Triangle has three lines
Square has four lines.
I'm not kidding. They're just creatively numbered 1 2 3 4.
>>3082418
Your mom's a letter.
No seriously, that's how retarded the argument is that people want to use the first letter of the english spelling of a greek character.
This thread is straight up retarded.
>>3083369
Too bad OP is right and you're retarded.
>>3081780
You're a moron, because if you read the interview OP said not to quote, you'd realize the creator of the controller called it X.
>>3082349
>I can quote a retarded interview where an engineer wanted to sound like he was an artist
It's a load of shit.
>>3083369
Delta refers to a triangle form as well idiot.
>>3084621
The word we use to refer to a triangle form is "Triangular".
>>3084891
It's in order to provide the most comfortable controls possible on a keyboard, not to fit any theory, fella.
>>3085534
The fuck are you talking about? OP is suggesting Playstation buttons were named after the xsdc keys on a qwerty keyboard and there's nothing comfortable about that considering it precludes wasd
>>3081057
>>3081057
:-)))))))
>>3083142
Gee thanks, I'm sure nobody mentioned that yet.
>>3081054
I can constructively call you a faggot.
How about that?
>>3081248
It's Denis
Because it looks like Penis and begins with D.
