Sony's highly anticipated next-gen console, the PlayStation 5, is only a bit over a month away from finally becoming available, releasing in the second and third weeks odf November depending on the region; bottom line, players will be able to enjoy their new console next month.
It seems that before getting to enjoy the soon-to-be-released console, some players will have to get used tom a small, albeit very perceivable change that may be an annoyance at first, as it has been confirmed that the Confirm button is being remapped.
That's right, the Confirm button on the PlayStation 5's DualSense will no longer be assigned to the circle(O) button in Japan, as it is being remapped to the Cross(X) button like it always has been here in the West; again, this change will only affect Japanese players, so you shouldn't worry about this.
This information was recently revealed by Famitsu, as reported by VGC, which was later confirmed by a PlayStation spokesperson who explained that this chanfe was made intentionally in order to "globally unify the console's control setups," and in order to "avoid any confusion in the future."
Since the very first PlayStation console hit the market in December of 1994, the Confirm button has always been assigned to the Circle(O) button, and Western players have actually experienced this "confusion" when some developers, mainly Japanese, would also assign the Confirm button to the Circle(O) button instead of the Cross(X) button.
In fact, Nintendo has always assigned the Confirm button to A, which on the PlayStation would be located where the Circle(O) button is, so chances are that players who own Nintendo and PlayStation consoles are already used to adjusting to changes like this one; for Japanese players, the Circle(O) and A buttons have always been the Confirm buttons, though.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has also revealed that users will not be able to configure the PlayStation 5's DualSense controller's buttons, so Japanese players will simply hve to adapt to this change, as there is no possible way to make the Circule(O) button the Confirm button.
Again, this will only affect Japanese players, who will now have to Confirm pressing X instead of O. It will take some adjusting, sure, but this is definitely for the better in the long run, although it is interesting to see Sony adjusting to Western standards in this particular case; otherwise, it would be us having to adjust to the Confirm button being mapped to Circle(O) and not Cross(X).
PlayStation 5 is expected to launch on Thursday the 12th of November in the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea; worldwide release on Thursday the 19th of November.