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”
So you married her for her looks, it could be worse.
I mean, she’s still a gamer at least…
“Press the button formerly known as Start”
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This is the way.
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
So… I believe I’m old now…
*insert “I’m in this meme and I don’t like it” picture.
The zoomers of today are the the boomers of tomorrow.
Everytime I start up Burnout: Paradise Remastered it tells me to hit Options to start the game. No! It’s Start to start!
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
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.
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.
I will always call it the start button, but to be honest, menu or options are better names for what it does.
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.”
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.
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.
The shtart button.
The shtart button.
Don’t push.
The shtart button.
Be right back!
I’m sorry, are we discussing paddles?
Start and Select for life. SNES was my first gamepad.
Should’ve gone the Nintendo route and used symbols. “+” and “-”
