Gamers Are Cross With PlayStation’s True Name for the ‘X’ Button

We live in divisive times and, apparently, Sony is ready to pile on the debate train by casually tossing out information that has rocked the gaming community.
Ever since the release of the original PlayStation, we’ve been accustomed to the traditional Sony controller layout—triangle, circle, square, and ‘ex’—but as it turns out, we’ve been wrong… dupped… HOODWINKED.
According to PlayStation, their primary action button isn’t ‘ex’ but rather ‘cross.’
Triangle
Circle
Cross
SquareIf Cross is called X (it’s not), then what are you calling Circle????? https://t.co/dvQ19duemW
— PlayStation UK (@PlayStationUK) September 5, 2019
“If Cross is called X (it’s not), then what are you calling Circle?” PlayStation UK tweeted (not at all condescendingly).
Look, in the nearly 25 years that PlayStation has been around, I have never once heard someone call it the ‘cross’ button, and apparently, the stats are in my favor.
According to a Twitter poll posted by PlayStation (surveying an astounding 168,000+ accounts), a measly 8% claimed to call it a ‘cross’ button.
What do you call it?
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) September 7, 2019
Fortunately, other big names in the gaming community have our backs when it comes to the ‘X’ button, too.
Xbox went ahead and weighed in on the controversy, effectively throwing PlayStation under the bus with a tweet of their own.
No matter what you call it, one thing that unites us all is the X button.
Happy #NationalVideoGamesDay @PlayStation @NintendoAmerica – and everyone! pic.twitter.com/kj2jSUo53X
— Xbox (@Xbox) September 12, 2019
Notice, their console is not called the ‘Crossbox.’
In PlayStation’s defense, though, as Twitter user @SIECrimson pointed out, the spaces between the sticks in a cross are equidistant while those in an ‘ex’ are not.
— PlayStation UK (@PlayStationUK) September 5, 2019
So, whether you call it a ‘cross’ or an ‘ex,’ it only further proves that there’s always someone somewhere on the internet ready to tell you that you’re wrong. And don’t expect that to change with the release of the PS5.