{"id":99919,"date":"2019-09-09T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/random_dont_worry_nintendo_switchs_x_button_is_still_called_x"},"modified":"2019-09-09T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:15:00","slug":"random-dont-worry-nintendo-switchs-x-button-is-still-called-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/09\/random-dont-worry-nintendo-switchs-x-button-is-still-called-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Don&#8217;t Worry, Nintendo Switch&#8217;s &#8216;X&#8217; Button Is Still Called &#8216;X&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fc295983a130c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fc295983a130c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo Switch Joy-Con\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fc295983a130c\/nintendo-switch-joy-con.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fc295983a130c\/nintendo-switch-joy-con.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch Joy-Con\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Before anyone gets too concerned, we&#8217;re happy to confirm that the X button found on your Nintendo Switch Joy-Con or Pro Controller is, and always will be, called &#8216;X&#8217;. <em>Because of course it is<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As you may well be aware, the PlayStation corner of the internet has been in <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2019\/09\/the_internet_is_cross_with_playstations_name_for_the_x_button\">absolute meltdown<\/a> over the last few days after PlayStation UK revealed that the DualShock controller&#8217;s &#8216;X&#8217; button is actually referred to as &#8216;Cross&#8217;. We&#8217;re sure you&#8217;ll agree that this simply <em>cannot<\/em> be correct; indeed, our chums over at Push Square found that <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2019\/09\/poll_sony_says_the_x_button_is_pronounced_cross_but_what_do_you_call_it\">roughly nine out of ten players call it &#8216;X&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the now-infamous reveal itself:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Triangle<br \/>Circle<br \/>Cross<br \/>Square<\/p>\n<p>If Cross is called X (it&#8217;s not), then what are you calling Circle?\ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dvQ19duemW\">https:\/\/t.co\/dvQ19duemW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 PlayStation UK (@PlayStationUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayStationUK\/status\/1169651442027827200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Concerned for the Nintendo community and gaming fans at large, we decided to get everyone in the office to stop what they were doing, find a computer, and search for any evidence of Nintendo pronouncing the names of its controller face buttons. It was a surprisingly difficult task, but we&#8217;re happy to confirm that it is indeed called &#8216;X&#8217;, as proven by Nintendo&#8217;s very own JC Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll hear it at the 8:15 mark below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6N0PDRALqLI?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;start=495&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Phew! Thank goodness.<\/p>\n<p><em>Now, go ahead and rest easy for the rest of the day &#8211; you can thank us later.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before anyone gets too concerned, we&#8217;re happy to confirm that the X button found on your Nintendo Switch Joy-Con or Pro Controller is, and always will be, called &#8216;X&#8217;. Because of course it is. As you may well be aware, the PlayStation corner of the internet has been in absolute meltdown over the last few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}