Do you still call the buttons 'Start' and 'Select'?

Are they still Start and Select to you?

  • Yes, Start and Select for LIFE

    Votes: 40 97.6%
  • No, I call them by their official names

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't care either way

    Votes: 1 2.4%

  • Total voters
    41
Select and Start for me, yeah.
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i use a ps5 controller that was given to me for when my steam deck is docked and i honestly forgot that the button on the left isnt called select but that might be cause steam input does seem to equate it to being a select button (cause it is) though whats neat on this controller is the sides of the trackpad can double as start and select buttons
 
It's been like 20 years since the first Xbox and I still never saw anyone calling the shoulder buttons by LB/RB/RT/LT

Probably because B and T don't mean anything for those who aren't native English speakers, but you can't compete with L1/L2/R1/R2.
 
It's been like 20 years since the first Xbox and I still never saw anyone calling the shoulder buttons by LB/RB/RT/LT

Probably because B and T don't mean anything for those who aren't native English speakers, but you can't compete with L1/L2/R1/R2.
It took me time before I understood those were called Bumpers and Triggers.
 
They can rename them what they want, but they'll still be Start and Select to me.
 
It took me time before I understood those were called Bumpers and Triggers.

I still can't figure out why are they called bumpers in the first place. Is it because of car bumpers? Honest question.
 
I still can't figure out why are they called bumpers in the first place. Is it because of car bumpers? Honest question.
Well, now that I see them, they kinda do.

For me bumpers will always be related to those things from Sonic:
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I always forget they're no called star and select anymore, but I'll keep calling them start and select anyway.
 
Yeah get used to since i was a kid
Despite having 360 i don't even remember how its called there, i think Back and Start?
 
Yes, I do. Even for my Nintendo Switch, which confuses my friends about whether select is "+" or "-" button. ::sailor-embarrassed
 
I still can't figure out why are they called bumpers in the first place. Is it because of car bumpers? Honest question.
I think it's because of how they're shaped + the way you press them is you just 'bump' them with your fingers?

But I also don t know anyone who calls them 'bumpers' (and legit until recently I thought it stood for 'button' because why would they be called 'bumpers? They're the shoulder buttons and the triggers are the shoulder triggers)
 
Yep

And on the Playstation they just changed the select button into a really big one. Like for real, the track pad has just become a more usefull and diverse select button for practically all video games.
 
You will first find me dead than calling the weird XBOX One shapes by their intended names
 
Yeah. I don't see a reason not to.
 
I liked that Start and Select were shaped after the Play and Stop button on a DVD player, those are vestigial yet a massive part of the PlayStation identity as a disc player and how Sony was a hifi channel brand as well...
 

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