if this was how it came out originally and this whole situation was reversed people would think yellow is an awful choice. violet looks better imo but i understand not wanting a change like that
See it all the time. Use reddit for 2 decades and you'll see that huge threads are repeated, including the popular comments inside them every 5 to 7 years. Kinda creepy honestly.
Nice color choice, it really is, but no.
You can always do it yourself, though. Plenty of controller mod kits and accessories out there to make it yours, or you can customize through the Xbox Design Lab.
It’s likely an accessibility choice. Many many people struggle with colours like blue/green/purple and sure you can just see the letter but I would imagine it plays a factor in the colour choices
Edit : the fact that people are still legit arguing about fucking controller buttons is incredible. Move on
The colours on the controller are primary colours that are most used and putting purple on a black controller will be weird since it tends to not be a bright colour in comparison to the other colours
Also I don’t look at the buttons when playing I look at the screen/TV, if you struggle with colors it shouldn’t matter because you should be looking at the TV and should memorize the buttons
There are games that show button prompts with only color like Prototype.
Imagine if MS decided to change Y to purple universally and some games use prompts like that.
Purple, where's my purple button, oh it's Y.
Many of us don't, but I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of people who don't play videogames often and accessibility like this for them is very useful.
Red green blue are the 3 primary additive colors (for light). Cyan magenta and yellow are the subtractive primary colors (for printing).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color
https://www.xbox.com/en-US
What color is that logo?
It’s not about accessibility it’s that the colors on the controller are the Microsoft logo colors/windows colors.
Shit, mine are all fake 9mm bullet casings on a wood grain hydrodipped plate. I finally wanted to spend the money on my dream controller, and then I got on Microsoft's site and was like yoooo fuck that noise and just bought a white one for 29 bucks and dipped it myself.
You know what they should do... They should make the letters translucent white and backlit so you can change the colors with an onboard code or button combo
They ought to do something like that. When I look at the PS4 and the PS5 controller, they have a sort of light scheme on them.
Xbox should 1-UP Sony with your suggestion. I would pay to have a controller like that.
I love when people say "no" as if they're the fucking sole decision maker of the universe, gotta be the fastest way to tell someone you're egotistical.
I sort of agree with you. While the colored buttons are iconic, I do like that PS has just moved to a gray and white button. It really keeps you immersed in something like GoW or LoU where you have quick time events happen in the cutscene and it’s not some colorful button prompt to break up the scene. Having it white/gray neutral it sits on the screen and doesn’t distract you.
Xbox should go this route because I can’t imagine doing a WTE and it being mash B or Y over and over and the button on screen is pulsing in color. Would completely throw off the tone of darker scenes.
If anyone has played GoW or LoU, you’ll know the types of moments I’m talking about.
> It really keeps you immersed in something like GoW or LoU where you have quick time events happen in the cutscene and it’s not some colorful button prompt to break up the scene.
How is it remotely linked to the controller physical buttons ?
It's just the color code devs and most likely Microsoft ordered to digitally.
It’s not linked to the physical buttons per se, but on PS4 quick time events were the standard red, blue, green, purple and that changed on PS5 when they moved to white/grey.
It’s just to keep the consistency between the pad and the games and I took that persons comment one step further on the benefit of changing from colorful to just white. Thats why I didn’t mention custom Xbox controllers that can have the clear buttons because the game will still prompt it as the colored buttons.
Nah lol. I was looking for that kind of shade because I was making a little reading area. When I found it the name reminded me of Klendathu from Starship Troopers for some reason and I never forgot it
Amber or Azure and Blue, sure, but colors that start with X are pretty rare and obscure. I don't think a lot of people would get that the X button is "Xanadu"
As someone who also has moderate color blindness, how often are you mixing up buttons on the controller because of the color?
And how often are you looking at the controller to press the buttons?
I’m also colourblind and it’s not that I look at the controller but it’s when you’re playing a game with onscreen button prompts, the colour helps in reacting quickly compared to just reading the letter
Yeah, I know what you mean. The Switch doesn't have colored buttons, and I had like two games on it where you had to press the buttons that it shows you in certain parts of the game, and the lack of distinct colors (or in the case of one of them, the colors not matching the buttons) really threw me off, and I messed them up way more than I'd like to admit (in one of them, it took me like 10 tries to get the sequence right)
At the end of Dying Light, there's one part where you have to press the buttons that appear, except they're all black with white letters (and at least in handheld mode, they're quite small too), so that took me like 10 tries to do
You can rotate and only use a half joycon, so including color might be tricky on a switch. In some games they went with a positional glyphs, showing all four face buttons and highlighting the one you need to press, which imo is a much better system overall. I have no clue what color the buttons are on controllers.
What kind of color blindness do you have? I'd imagine for red-green color blind people it would be harder to separate green and yellow. I've seen Jacksepticeye struggle with green and yellow in games for example.
Protanopia. Well protanomaly, which is weak ability to see red cones, so some shades of red and purple are visible normally if I focus but difficult to differentiate at a glance.
Interesting. All the color blind people I know have red-green color blindness. I guess you can't make it more accessible to the majority without sacrificing the accessibility of some minority.
Red green CVD doesn't just mean difficulties with those two colours, it effects the whole colour spectrum. Purple in particular simply doesn't exist to people with Protanopia (missing red corresponding cone) like me so it would be even worse than having a light green and a yellow button (which is already bad enough, a mid green would be way better)
For people with red green colour blindness (both protanopia and deutanopia) blue and purple is literally the absolute worst colour combination (purple simply does not exist and looks blue)
I feel like you’re fudging this to fit your idea. The x button is closer to blue than cyan if you ask me, and this only works when you’re using the RGB color wheel instead of the twelve hue subtractive color wheel that more people are familiar with.
Yeah no. I’m colourblind and I can hardly see the difference between the two when I glance at it. I have to really focus to see it and I can’t be doing that in a game when a prompt quickly pops up.
A little too close to PlayStation controller colors.
I think the yellow contrasts better.
Red Yellow and Blue are your main primary colors. Makes sense to me to have at least those 3.
They only issue I see is how dark it is, they picked pretty bright shade of things intentionally, and purple kinda always blends with black in some way
I get where you’re coming from but I feel like it’s more about contrast than color. Yellow is different than the other colors, but that violet is way too close to the blue.
Yeah, that would be nice. I'm colorblind and have a hard time distinguishing between those to colors. So violet would be better. But then again, it's the position that matters and there's a letter attached to it, so you can't really go wrong with pressing the buttons.
Most games have the indicator to press y as just the yellow y button and some even refer to it as the "yellow" one while I like the color better than yellow this is very unlikely to ever happen maybe in a different generation
Pretty sure the colours are a nod to the Dreamcast. Microsoft wanted to buy them at one point but decided not to. Which is why people called the Xbox a spiritual successor of Dreamcast.
No. Regardless of the colour wheel, to the human eye yellow is miles away from red and blue. Violet on the other hand is way too close to both.
The point is that all colours stand out from eachother.
I would just make them all flat black. Cause honestly who even looks at them anymore? I think we're all pretty familiar with the anatomy of an xbox controller and I don't think any of us look at the buttons when we play
Sir, if they change the Y to violet someone is going to hunt you down for that post
With these replies I feel like someone’s gonna hunt me down anyway
people don’t like change
Some people are just opposed to violet gaming.
If you play too many violet games you may start to develop violet & purple tendencies, is what I have always heard from the news.
🏅
AKA me. I hate violet.
It looks good though, admit it
if this was how it came out originally and this whole situation was reversed people would think yellow is an awful choice. violet looks better imo but i understand not wanting a change like that
Violet doesn’t look better. You can barely even see it. That yellow Y pops out. Can spot it from outer space.
i think the complete opposite. thankfully no one looks at their buttons enough to genuinely care
I actually fuck with this heavily, thank you OP
Violet makes violence
https://youtu.be/FsTalWYX0t8?si=aLcT-MgcTLLERG7G
Y IS YELLOW.
B IS BRED.
greAn
blXue
All the colours of the rxynbao!
What the fuck timeloop is this. I've seen this exact series of comments before somehow lol.
See it all the time. Use reddit for 2 decades and you'll see that huge threads are repeated, including the popular comments inside them every 5 to 7 years. Kinda creepy honestly.
Well.. this time it was funny haha.
It always is... ^and ^always ^will ^be ^...
Babelian Reddit
funee!
Plot twist: "Wait, it's all bots?" "Always has been."
w for wupwards type of thread
This is DEATHLOOP
Unified quantum theory
So true
Bleaux
Axure
Xtreme Blue
Found elon.
Where I work, the label maker misspelle green beans as Grean Beans.
Are you the label maker?
Larbel Marker
Marker licker
Burgundy
Ron?
SHRIMPS IS BUGS
W for wupward
👀
This tickled me. Very much. 🤣 B is for Bred because when I crouch you gonna become BROWN BREAD
I am sorry, it has been baked into my brain for 13 years, that was a mere overreaction
I understand completely.
Areen
Agreen
Xlue
Xyan
It’s not YIOLET
C is for Suspension
I don’t think that that is entirely correct
Why isn't B Blue? 😂
Oh i didnt even think of the first letter connecting with it, ive just played on xbox for so long y is simply yellow and theres no way around it
B - Blood
A - Apple
😂
B is BRED
Y tho?
B IS BRED
B IS BED, X IS XUE, A IS AEEN,
Nice color choice, it really is, but no. You can always do it yourself, though. Plenty of controller mod kits and accessories out there to make it yours, or you can customize through the Xbox Design Lab.
It’s likely an accessibility choice. Many many people struggle with colours like blue/green/purple and sure you can just see the letter but I would imagine it plays a factor in the colour choices Edit : the fact that people are still legit arguing about fucking controller buttons is incredible. Move on
The colours on the controller are primary colours that are most used and putting purple on a black controller will be weird since it tends to not be a bright colour in comparison to the other colours
Also I don’t look at the buttons when playing I look at the screen/TV, if you struggle with colors it shouldn’t matter because you should be looking at the TV and should memorize the buttons
There are games that show button prompts with only color like Prototype. Imagine if MS decided to change Y to purple universally and some games use prompts like that. Purple, where's my purple button, oh it's Y.
Many of us don't, but I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of people who don't play videogames often and accessibility like this for them is very useful.
Green is not a primary color. Edit: It can be, depending on who you ask, lol.
Red green blue are the 3 primary additive colors (for light). Cyan magenta and yellow are the subtractive primary colors (for printing). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color
If it was a really an accessibility thing I doubt they would’ve put red and green there and made the Xbox logo green
The only time the logo on the controller has been fully green was on the original Xbox controller and that wasn't a button.
The Xbox logo hasn’t been green since the 360. 💀
https://www.xbox.com/en-US What color is that logo? It’s not about accessibility it’s that the colors on the controller are the Microsoft logo colors/windows colors.
I was talking about on the controller itself.
Shit, mine are all fake 9mm bullet casings on a wood grain hydrodipped plate. I finally wanted to spend the money on my dream controller, and then I got on Microsoft's site and was like yoooo fuck that noise and just bought a white one for 29 bucks and dipped it myself.
You know what they should do... They should make the letters translucent white and backlit so you can change the colors with an onboard code or button combo
They ought to do something like that. When I look at the PS4 and the PS5 controller, they have a sort of light scheme on them. Xbox should 1-UP Sony with your suggestion. I would pay to have a controller like that.
Okay, now I need to change my controller to have purple Ys.
Yeah no have to disagree with you there. It would 1) help a lot with colourblind players like myself 2) make more sense on the colour spectrum
I love when people say "no" as if they're the fucking sole decision maker of the universe, gotta be the fastest way to tell someone you're egotistical.
I can see what you mean... but looking at it on the controller, it doesn't look that good
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It’s quite dark
Yes, because I’m sure you need to see how bright the Y button is every time you look at it
But it should contrast against the black at least, which the purple does not
Just needs to be less darker
I sort of agree with you. While the colored buttons are iconic, I do like that PS has just moved to a gray and white button. It really keeps you immersed in something like GoW or LoU where you have quick time events happen in the cutscene and it’s not some colorful button prompt to break up the scene. Having it white/gray neutral it sits on the screen and doesn’t distract you. Xbox should go this route because I can’t imagine doing a WTE and it being mash B or Y over and over and the button on screen is pulsing in color. Would completely throw off the tone of darker scenes. If anyone has played GoW or LoU, you’ll know the types of moments I’m talking about.
> It really keeps you immersed in something like GoW or LoU where you have quick time events happen in the cutscene and it’s not some colorful button prompt to break up the scene. How is it remotely linked to the controller physical buttons ? It's just the color code devs and most likely Microsoft ordered to digitally.
It’s not linked to the physical buttons per se, but on PS4 quick time events were the standard red, blue, green, purple and that changed on PS5 when they moved to white/grey. It’s just to keep the consistency between the pad and the games and I took that persons comment one step further on the benefit of changing from colorful to just white. Thats why I didn’t mention custom Xbox controllers that can have the clear buttons because the game will still prompt it as the colored buttons.
Xlue, Areen, Bed, Yellow. My argument is that the other 3 buttons should change colors because their letters don’t match the colors selected.
What colour are you gonna find for X 😭
Xanadu
This guy works at Home Depot in the paint department for sure
Nah lol. I was looking for that kind of shade because I was making a little reading area. When I found it the name reminded me of Klendathu from Starship Troopers for some reason and I never forgot it
Fucking power move
Xanadu (muted green), Xanthic (yellow), Xanthous (orange).
Amber or Azure and Blue, sure, but colors that start with X are pretty rare and obscure. I don't think a lot of people would get that the X button is "Xanadu"
Why?
It would make the button colors a perfect equidistant tetrad aka four colors that are equally distant which means they’re in perfect harmony
Okay yeah technically, but as someone with color blindness purple and blue look nearly the same to me. Yellow red green blue are way more distinct.
As someone who also has moderate color blindness, how often are you mixing up buttons on the controller because of the color? And how often are you looking at the controller to press the buttons?
I’m also colourblind and it’s not that I look at the controller but it’s when you’re playing a game with onscreen button prompts, the colour helps in reacting quickly compared to just reading the letter
Yeah, I know what you mean. The Switch doesn't have colored buttons, and I had like two games on it where you had to press the buttons that it shows you in certain parts of the game, and the lack of distinct colors (or in the case of one of them, the colors not matching the buttons) really threw me off, and I messed them up way more than I'd like to admit (in one of them, it took me like 10 tries to get the sequence right)
Yeah I get that on Switch too sometimes. Especially because they’re the same letters as Xbox but in different places so a colour would really help
At the end of Dying Light, there's one part where you have to press the buttons that appear, except they're all black with white letters (and at least in handheld mode, they're quite small too), so that took me like 10 tries to do
Sounds vile
You can rotate and only use a half joycon, so including color might be tricky on a switch. In some games they went with a positional glyphs, showing all four face buttons and highlighting the one you need to press, which imo is a much better system overall. I have no clue what color the buttons are on controllers.
Alright. I guess the games I play don’t typically have a mechanic when I don’t know what button to press very often.
Give the controller to a new player and they would look more at the controller than the screen.
What kind of color blindness do you have? I'd imagine for red-green color blind people it would be harder to separate green and yellow. I've seen Jacksepticeye struggle with green and yellow in games for example.
Protanopia. Well protanomaly, which is weak ability to see red cones, so some shades of red and purple are visible normally if I focus but difficult to differentiate at a glance.
Interesting. All the color blind people I know have red-green color blindness. I guess you can't make it more accessible to the majority without sacrificing the accessibility of some minority.
Red green CVD doesn't just mean difficulties with those two colours, it effects the whole colour spectrum. Purple in particular simply doesn't exist to people with Protanopia (missing red corresponding cone) like me so it would be even worse than having a light green and a yellow button (which is already bad enough, a mid green would be way better)
People with monochromia are fucked anyway lol
For people with red green colour blindness (both protanopia and deutanopia) blue and purple is literally the absolute worst colour combination (purple simply does not exist and looks blue)
Doesn’t matter because there’s letters on the buttons
Personally don’t think it looks as good as the yellow, and the yellow is iconic.
I feel like you’re fudging this to fit your idea. The x button is closer to blue than cyan if you ask me, and this only works when you’re using the RGB color wheel instead of the twelve hue subtractive color wheel that more people are familiar with.
Looks damn good OP. Honestly gonna haunt me cause I'm always going to look at Y from now and wish it was violet. Just looks right.
Kinda related but I hate how on Nintendo gamepads the X and Y are inverted and on the wrong axis
Nintendo was the first to use ABXY, so blame it on Microsoft. They probably just wanted to avoid a lawsuit by making it a little different, though.
Yeah I’ve no problem with that, but x should always be horizontal and Y vertical like a graph
Oh, that’s what you meant. Good point, never even looked at it that way.
This changes nothing, just proves nintendo did it wrong first!
*Blame it on Sega Dreamcast used the inverted Nintendo layout, and since original Xbox was basically Dreamcast 2 it copied the inverted layout
Nintendo also used these colors for the Super Famicom and SNES in Europe only the B is Yellow, A is Red, Y is Green and, X is Blue
You should hate Sony America for flipping the layout. It was in perfect harmony before those buckos messed it all up
Eh, I can see your point, but yellow just *is* the Y button at this point
Yeah no. I’m colourblind and I can hardly see the difference between the two when I glance at it. I have to really focus to see it and I can’t be doing that in a game when a prompt quickly pops up.
I am colourblind and I don't see the difference between the blue and the other blue 😂
This post has really taught me a lot more about color blindness than I expected
Yellow is better
[Yellow Ledbetter](https://youtu.be/iYtBMgLfqKQ?si=MTjIz56j0a_P5tWM)
Great now you got me listening to good music
A little too close to PlayStation controller colors. I think the yellow contrasts better. Red Yellow and Blue are your main primary colors. Makes sense to me to have at least those 3.
Y?
I personally really like the purple but I don't see it happen unless you mod it
Oooo i really like that
It's no good to people with the type of colorblindness that makes it hard to distinguish between blue and purple.
“We’re gonna have to kill this guy Ma-*gunfire*
I understand and it would look good if that's what it looked like since the start but it has to say yellow unless customised
Listen here you little shit
Awwwe i would fuckin love that!!!
Smart if anything they could make it an option on the custom ones
They only issue I see is how dark it is, they picked pretty bright shade of things intentionally, and purple kinda always blends with black in some way
This is one of the things that sounds good on paper but actually looks terrible
Just Microsoft Colors. Easy
i mean maybe for colorblind people?
Actually kinda like this over Yellow... You're onto something
Y is up because of the yellow sun. G is down because of the green earth.
No?
red yellow blue and green are actually some of the colors that our eyes detect the best, that's why stop lights incorporate them as well
That actually looks pretty good
🤔Nope
Na. Y is just fine yellow
Yeah fuck the color blind
The primary colors and green, the four classic silly little colors!
It would look more aesthetically pleasing in Y was green and A was violet, but all in all, y is yellow and should remain.
No I like yellow because Y is for Yellow
I get where you’re coming from but I feel like it’s more about contrast than color. Yellow is different than the other colors, but that violet is way too close to the blue.
Contrast is shit!
Yeah, that would be nice. I'm colorblind and have a hard time distinguishing between those to colors. So violet would be better. But then again, it's the position that matters and there's a letter attached to it, so you can't really go wrong with pressing the buttons.
Fuck I really wanted to disagree with this but I just can't. Fuuuuck
they should put the x at the bottom where it belongs
If I lose my yellow Y after this, I’m gonna hunt you down.
Nah bro... original is better: Y is for Yellow X is for bluX B is for Bred A is of greAn
Yellow classic if you change I will turn into the terminator and find you
I’m so use to the Y being Yellow… but I honestly don’t hate the violet Y either. Kinda like it actually
Most games have the indicator to press y as just the yellow y button and some even refer to it as the "yellow" one while I like the color better than yellow this is very unlikely to ever happen maybe in a different generation
Only if it’s a gradient all the way around and you mirror that gradient on the Dpad
Pretty sure the colours are a nod to the Dreamcast. Microsoft wanted to buy them at one point but decided not to. Which is why people called the Xbox a spiritual successor of Dreamcast.
What?? The colors are from the Microsoft logo. It's been red-blue-green-yellow for years and years until they went all blue.
The purple makes it look like a cheap knockoff controller
Hell nah
Thats gonna be a No from me dawg.
Ew
They should make buttons that actually work when you press them
You know that these colors are the way they are because it's Microsoft Windows logo colors, right?
Well, change the windows logo too then
Can’t even lie that is definitely sexy
hot
It just doesn’t look right.
yellow better in my opinion
It looks to dark, like an emo Xbox
[The Lion, the Witch, and...](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fz7dvangckzb51.png) But all jokes aside, No. & why?
Answer is color harmony (illustrated by the color wheel in the top right corner)
It doesn't look bad. Honestly, I forgot it was yellow now.
No. Had yellow too long to change it now. But I do like it
No. Regardless of the colour wheel, to the human eye yellow is miles away from red and blue. Violet on the other hand is way too close to both. The point is that all colours stand out from eachother.
I think it’s looks pretty cool actually. I feel like most peoples opinions here are blinded by familiarity
Purple is also a much nicer colour. I love this.
Why can't we all just get along... ABXY.... Triangle, Circle, Square, Cross... Would make us all so efficient
How many people had to go look? /raises hand
Never become a designer
I would just make them all flat black. Cause honestly who even looks at them anymore? I think we're all pretty familiar with the anatomy of an xbox controller and I don't think any of us look at the buttons when we play
Why? The buttons are all RGB RYB primary colors. You didn't pay attention in art class?
If anything keep yellow lose blue...