Teiyu Goto, a Sony engineer who had much freedom to design the original PlayStation as well ... and I came up with the triangle-circle-X-square combination immediately afterward.

Who knew that those buttons we took for granted, would have intrinsic worth to the PlayStation brand ... and I came up with the triangle-circle-X-square combination immediately afterward.

SONY PlayStation controllers are used all over ... Goto said: "I gave each symbol a meaning and a color. The circle and the X, which some people call the cross symbol, have fairly obvious ...

It's always been the X ... PlayStation UK's Twitter account put out into the world on Thursday. The four "face" buttons on the PlayStation's DualShock controllers are Triangle, Circle, Square ...

"Triangle. Circle. Cross. Square," PlayStation UK tweeted. "If Cross is called X (it's not), then what are you calling Circle?" PlayStation UK even took a moment to poke fun at those who call it ...