For almost 25 years, Sony has made PlayStation controllers with an X as the main button. But according to a tweet from the Playstation UK account, that button should not be called the X button.

The PlayStation X button is definitely called Cross, but I still say "ecks" even if I admit that i am wrong in doing so. Here's why it's Triangle, Circle, Cross, and Square, as Daily Reaction ...

PlayStation then held a poll for what gamers call the button, and found that “X” was far more popular than “Cross,” receiving 81 percent of the nearly 170,000 votes.

The official PlayStation UK account decided to weigh in, however, and totally upset the cart by officially endorsing Triangle, Circle, Cross, and Square as the names for the main buttons on the ...

The X button on the PlayStation gamepad is actually called the 'cross' and not the 'ecks,' according to Sony. This sparked a long-winded and hilarious debate on social media among fans.

It's been days since PlayStation UK posted a tweet saying that the X button is actually pronounced 'cross', but the debate is still raging across the internet. Well, we say debate, but the reality ...

I’ve spent a few hours with the PlayStation edition of the Backbone One, and it’s the same great controller as before, with comfortable grips, a logical button arrangement, good trigger ...

The button technically isn’t even pronounced ‘ecks’ like the letter, but is in fact the ‘cross’ button. It is pronounced 'eks' like the letter since the first PS, as @smoreon said ...

It turns out, that “X” button (commonly pronounced “ex”) on the right side of the PlayStation Dualshock controller is actually called the “Cross” button, as reported by Eurogamer ...

They’re trying to say the X button - eggs, ekks, ex - is actually called “cross”. It reminds me of when the person who invented the word gif tried to tell everyone it’s pronounced “jif”.