[chrisacky]

I wonder if this is why Nintendo reversed the meaning of B A on their controllers.

I hate that the switch does this.

But it means sense if everyone in Japan is used to that behaviour because of the swapping of X and O on Playstation.

[debugnik]

What do you mean reversed? The NES already assigned letters right-to-left: B A!

Controllers typically used sets of A-B(-C) X-Y(-Z) face buttons, A/B intuitively meaning ok/back however they were laid out, usually in straight or angled rows assigned left-to-right (e.g. Sega) or right-to-left (e.g. Nintendo). The angled layouts are the modern Xbox and Nintendo layouts (which Nintendo used since forever and Xbox I guess inherited from their Windows CE involvement with Sega).

But Sony came up with the symbols instead, so Japanese devs followed the maru/batsu metaphor with circle/X, whereas early western games used X/triangle until they switched to X/circle, and those became official regional layouts until the PS5 switched Japan to X/circle.

[firen777]

This mess of different symbols is why video game should allow users to change the button prompt to their preferred symbol, especially games with QTE.

[kyle-rb]

The Switch didn't change the meaning of A and B; the OS and all first-party Nintendo games that I've seen use A=confirm and B=cancel, which has been the case for a long time.

There are some games I've played on the Switch that use B=confirm, I think usually so that button layout is the same across consoles.