I'm very guilty of this. I'm an old man set in my ways.

It's select and start.
What's it supposed to be, windows and hamburgers?

Did the buttons really need renaming? It's not like options and share or + and - make any more sense

Start and Select for life. SNES was my first gamepad.

My nephew was so confused when I kept telling him to press "Select" when we played on a PS5.

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.

Everytime I start up Burnout: Paradise Remastered it tells me to hit Options to start the game. No! It's Start to start!

Yeah, same. I actually forget the name of the button, too, so when I give someone the controller so they can play and they ask “how do I open the menu?” I’ll say “oh press start. It’s not called start actually but you know press the button that looks like it should be called start.”

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?

Same. My older SO corrects me. I won't have any of it.

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I'm sorry, are we discussing paddles?

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

So... I believe I'm old now...

*insert "I'm in this meme and I don't like it" picture.

Hello my name MonsiuerPatEBrown, and I use two spaces after a period.

I will always call it the start button, but to be honest, menu or options are better names for what it does.

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.

I'm the same with Nintendos new controllers.

➕ and ➖ are Start and Select to me.

My main controller is the 8bitdo sf30 pro, which as basically the Super Famicom controller but with sticks and extra buttons for modern functionality labels them Start and Select, as ordained by heaven.

Should've gone the Nintendo route and used symbols. "+" and "-"

the worst is when they change the shapes to make them smaller (switch & ps5), gotta save pennies on manufacturing costs i guess

The zoomers of today are the the boomers of tomorrow.

I didn't even realize till like last year that the big square button in the middle was also a touchpad. I kept going into the map in farcry and it would keep wiggling around. Didn't realize till later that you can use that pad as a cursor

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.

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.

A is the only button

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On Xbox we have Big X and Little X too!

It's the start button, I agree

In another timeline, Windows 95 introduced the 'Options' button, a revolutionary breakthrough in graphical interface design.

The boomer traits of old gamers