The "original/intended" layout was used a little bit on some Western releases in the early days: Final Fantasy 7 memorably has X as cancel and O as confirm, for

The "original/intended" layout was used a little bit on some Western releases in the early days: Final Fantasy 7 memorably has X as cancel and O as confirm, for example. As others have pointed out, the "flipped" version eventually dominated to the extent that they changed it even in Japan, though maybe you can blame Sony's increasingly Western focus there. Switching it for the West never really made any sense and has only ever led to more confusion than if they hadn't done it at all.