Four years in and I'm still holding the PS button to bring up the power menu (like it was on the PS4) every single time. And it takes me to the home menu instead, every single time. And vice versa. Why did they switch it. Why did they switch it. Why did they switch it. Why did they switch it. Why di
The other cursed aspect of this transition that nobody talks about is that while Sony publicly made Japanese games switch to X to confirm when the PS5 hit, for a few years prior to that, they actually soft launched that requirement on the PS4, bizarrely forcing Japanese region games to detect the console region of the hardware they're being played on and if they detect a western unit, enforce X as confirm even if the dev never had any plans to localize whatsoever. I ran into this with multiple games across multiple devs that remained Japanese only, so I assume it became a certification requirement for whatever reason and it was always and remains bafflingly infuriating. You cannot get the games to use O to confirm even if you switch the system language (mine was always in Japanese to begin with), which means for Japanese PS4 games, you genuinely cannot count on something so basic being consistent across that entire generation. Utterly bizarre, whoever at Sony thought it was worth instituting this and the PS5 changes so that everybody's muscle memory globally is ruined in one way or the other deserves to be smacked upside the head. 😩
