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When I was much younger, I had trouble understanding checkboxes - in particular the ones with an X in them because at the time I thought X means no. So I would assume checkboxes with an X meant that you were deselecting them.

Is it possible it's really all just what we're used to?

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This was also a problem with the Playstation controller.

The controller has ○ and × buttons, and in Japan "×" can mean no/incorrect and "○" can mean yes/correct, so in the menus you press ○ to confirm and × to deny.

When they localized it for the west, they flipped the meaning so that × means yes as in "check the box" and ○ means no as in "zero" (like on a power switch with 1 and 0)

So when you play games from another region, what controls you use in menus changes.

I'm still annoyed the big 3 all have different position for usual OK/cancel

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