Ico

[A Black Falcon]

That is true, it was a weird decision... it's not like a lot of SNES games hadn't had A (on the right) as the main button, so there certainly shouldn't have been such a big deal to have circle as the PSX's main button. Sega had always had A (on the left) as the main button, though, and it makes more sense to an American to have the leftmost button be first (reading left to right and all that), but even so, it definitely added a lot of unnecessary confusion.

And why in the world did somebody think that TRIANGLE was a good back button to pair with X as the action button? And more importantly, how did such a bad design actually manage to catch on? Next and back should be next to eachother, not opposite!