All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration
The Nintendo Switch has now sunset its X integration.
Nobody wants to do business with unstable nazis.
Nobody wants to do business with
unstablenazis.
How I wish that were true.
More like
Nobody wants to do business with unstable
nazispeople
Plenty of businesses ready and willing to do business with stable (and rich) Nazis, dictators and slavers. Look at the line of people and businesses more than ready to make deals with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, China, etc
If you are rich and have a stable government, there's no amount of human rights violations and genocides stopping corrupt fuckers from trying to make deals with you and profit.
Any company that appeals to conservatives loves to do business with Nazis.
Nah, plenty of people want to do business with nazis. Unfortunately.
Five people here think Nazi business is fine. Yikes.
e: wait, 6.
e2: hey guys! Lemmy doesn’t have vote fuzzing yet! (just noticing. there’s no conspiracy here … or is there?)
There are stable ones?
There are stable geniuses, but I want nothing to do with them.
moooom I'm seeing Nazis everywhere again
Lmao
Good. Frankly at this point if you're still on on Twitter I think it's suspicious.
Long past that point... If your not on mastodon I don't really care what you have to say. Bluesky is just another capitalist platform used to motize working class people's content.
I've oddly seen lemmy posts on mastodon lately and it kinda secured to me this is the real "web 3.0"
Twitter has a pretty solid metal (music) community that I've come to know and appreciate over time. We share new bands, our opinions on albums, all that good stuff.
Not everything has to be related to politics. People aren't "suspicious" because they don't share all your views.
This is problem with platform lock in. Be it discord, X, FB groups, Reddit. Communities form and then fragment as the members who realize there are better open options leave.
The users of the web have enough desktop and laptop cpu cycles to spare for passing a few decentralized messages around without killing battery life or performance. We don’t need these experience degrading/dehumanizing ad platforms to underpin our internet. That’s just a narrative peddled by companies who aim to make obscene profit on top of their already obscene profits.
Why? I have an account because I follow about a dozen people I’d like to see the updates for. I don’t post or search around. Some journalist and sports people. Just because someone you don’t like owns it doesn’t mean anyone who uses it is a piece of shit or whatever. It’s still functionally the same for a lot of functions. Do I use it as much as I used to? No. But I haven’t seen anything worse there than I did at Reddit or here.
When you describe someone else's grievance as "someone you don't like" or "says something you think is bad", you're adding an implication that the actual reason is irrelevant. It makes it look like you don't understand the reason at best, or are deliberately minimizing it at worst.
"If there's a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis."
I'm sure you're not a piece of shit, but by still having a Twitter account equals to supporting the platform and its owner (a proven piece of shit). Even if you're not giving it any traffic by being logged in or following users (which you're doing), you'd be giving it your support.
By unfollowing your sports people and quitting the shithole altogether you're sending a clear message that the platform is dying (it's already dead for many) and it's high time for people to find alternatives.
Ha ha! Fuck you Elon. Way to make your shitty platform irrelevant faster.
$42,000 a month
Fucks sake
Interesting that X only pays you that much to include their integratio-
Oh, they want YOU to pay THEM...!?
And nothing of value was lost. I can't imagine ever wanting to read a tweet from somebody's console game.
Some ppl used the Twitter integration to export screenshots from their Nintendo Switch since it didn't require USB or MTP
Can we get a shout out for elon for killing twitter
I wish I had 44 billion dollars to burn.
I could live comfortably for the rest of my life on 1/10,000th of what Elmo wasted.
what have they replaced the X button on their controllers with, then?
PlayStation doesn't have an X button, it has a Cross button. /j
This is a great thing.
There need to be material consequences for Nazism.
I think it's more that it costs money to use the Twitter API now.
Surprised that they didn’t remove it earlier
At $42k per month I would have removed/disabled it immediately
Why would I need to pay that kind of money to let my users to post on your social where you’re monetizing it with ads and using the content to increase user engagement? Should be the opposite! The social network paying the game console maker in order to get preferential treatment and prominent share buttons
It's not that simple. That's not fair to their innocent user base who used that as their primary login. That's why this is actually a big deal, it's technically difficult since it's so integrated, and it screws over some of their users. So giving them a fair chance to migrate off is the right thing to do.
Twitter as a login doesn’t need api access and it’s still free
They need to pay the absurd fees when they post screenshots on behalf of users. So, since it’s not a very important feature, it doesn’t make sense to pay at least half a million dollars per year for that
Because originally it was extremely cheap advertisement for your console and games?
Fucking good, everyone that still supports that wannabe fascist tool wears it as a badge of stupidity, at best.
They should stop posting company business on Twitter, too.
Worse by every metric. "The Wealthiest Man in the World's Crisis Purchase Putrifies"
I've never used Twitter, but I've heard that it's just a porn site nowadays. Is that accurate?
No, they also have Nazis and other assorted bigots.
Does the NAZI porn involve blond blue-eyed Frauleins in skimpy leather gear with wipps dominating willing slaves?
Asking for a friend.
And a whole lot of racism!
No. There are still a lot of serious journalists on it. It is still a very important media for journalists to quickly share information.
But the porn&hate bots and the uncontrolled trolls make it unbearable. It has always been rough on twitter, but it has become an utter shitshow.
No. There are still a lot of serious journalists on it. It is still a very important media for journalists to quickly share information.
Sorry but It was never that. I joined back in 2016 because everyone said it was the best for fast news and that was a Canadian election year. I didn't last a week, it was just one liners from "journalist" and a plethora of trolls and people slinging shit at each other
Imagine how bad it was for news, that I wound up liking Reddit more because there was a modicum of moderation
My main issue with the serious journalism is that there's apparently no way to sort a feed by time/latest date anymore... what is the point of seeing a random assortment of news from any number of years? Maybe it looks different if you log in, but it used to be my main source of local news & weather before.
Also the entire games industry is still on it and the move to Bluesky or mastadon ended in a stalemate. It’s the only online place outside of invite only discord servers where you can network with fellow game devs.
It was before, too.
I think that by having all major console makers abandoning Twitter, that it will keep Twitter / X away from the majority of the younger generations. (which I think would be a good things for those wanting to protect your kids from the content that's allowed to free spread on there.)
You really think kids use consoles, to access social media, more than phones, and tablets?
Perhaps, with them no longer being able to easily upload clips to twitter from consoles, they'll be less inclined to participate on twitter. I agree it's not going to change much, though. I wonder how many people were even using this built-in integration anyway?
I know that more kids play video games daily then most adults that work and pay bills, which is besides the point. Most of the time it seems youngers use Discord to communicate then Twiter, when playing games, be regardless of what things might seem.
By removing Twitter from major gaming platforms would make Twitter less relevant to that market which is a lot, over time. It will almost look like Myspace in a sense. (not necessarily that Twitter would be closed down but just that they likely aren't likely going to be using it even willingly, over something like Discord or Instagram.
I don’t know any kids that use twitter. They all use Snapchat.
Was a horrible idea before Musk also.
It was honestly pretty good being able to post clips and screenshots directly from a game
It wasn't tho. It was a really great idea. It just became shit.
How it has not caught on to call it Xitter (Shitter)... I don't know
So... Mastodon integration instead I hope?
With each company hosting their own mastodon instance! We can bring back console wars with federation/defederation
Nintendo would be spamming ban hammer, Xbox would be full of spam, and PS would be full of Japanese posts & memes lol
its perfect.
All three? Surely you must be forgetting OUYA, KFC and Soulja Boy!
Where's @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world with a Riker trombone pic when you need them?
Here ya go. I normally only do a Riker in News communities.
I love this recurring post. Please keep it up.
Technology isn't news?? 😩
Elon Musk comes out onto a stage and announces that Tesla is entering the game console market when?
Looks like we just aXed Twitter integration (get it? Because X)
I don't get it, can you Xplain?
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but I will assume you aren't.
You see, X is the terrible new name for Twitter that we all hate, and so these vidya game companies are removing Twitter integration from their consoles. They're axing the integration (meaning they're killing it with an axe). Axe sounds like X.
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So X is shorthand for Nazi right?
Heck - even the letter is just a sans sarif Swastika.
I'm not a gamer or a xitterhead but what would these consoles do with xitter integration.
For uploading game clips I'd assume
For Nintendo, it was the only way to upload your screenshots to the internet if you don't have a PC or phone with an SD slot. The other consoles have other integration you could use for images (and they all have YouTube for video) so this kinda sucks for Switch owners that have literally no other way of getting their screenshots online.
Sharing screenshots and video captures.
The only place where I tried to use it was on Xbox back when Xbox One first came out, and I didn't like the way it worked back then, so I didn't really use it much. It didn't send the actual media to Twitter, it posted a link to the file, and Xbox screenshots got deleted after 30 days. If I wanted to properly post it so that the media was actually hosted on Twitter, I had to save the full res media anyway.
(In fact actually saving full resolution Xbox screenshots used to be needlessly difficult. Only much later they added a way to save screenshots to OneDrive, which occasionally worked, and only very recently they decided they don't bother with the Xbox screenshot hosting at all and auto-upload everything to OneDrive.)
Are they going to integrate mastodon instead?
They'll make their own fediverse. With blackjack. And hookers.
Nintendo: 🙋♂️
Fine, Nintendo, you don't have to have the hookers.
Nintendo: 🙋♂️
No, you cannot dress Pikachu up as a prostitute.
Miyamoto: 🙋♂️
You can do whatever you want.
No. They'll integrate with Threads.
You're joking right?
Now if only Hello Games would drop it too.
And 1000 or so other developers.
all three? what about soulja boy? as long as he's still supporting it they'll be fine
What is x? Is bobs n vagenes?
Ironically yes.
A year back this was a joke. But now it's true.
They all have ways to send screenshots to the mobile apps if I’m not mistaken and with Twitter jacking up API prices since Elon took over, it makes perfect sense just to discontinue support
I haven't used the PlayStation or Xbox ones, but the Switch mobile device media transfer is remarkably awkward to use. The Switch will broadcast an ad hoc SSID which you can connect a device to and then hit a web server hosted by the Switch to get your pictures. As if that wasn't already kind of awkward lots of phones will fight you on connecting to the SSID because it doesn't have an internet gateway, so they consider it a bad connection and just automatically switch back to mobile data.
It is classic Nintendo, to have some annoying awkward system for a thing that has been already done well for years.
I recall being baffled by the Wii friend code system when Xbox live was so clearly better in every way
I mean 50k per license por console seems insane
They should add Mastodon integration instead.
No one will make money from that, so they're not going to do it.
It took them this long? Impressive. Idiotic, but still impressive.
They probably just waited for the contracts to end hehe :')
I would be interested to know how much of Twitter's use was from these integrations. This could be an absolute drop in the bucket.
You're likely right. At the same time, consoles integrating Twitter made it look more legitimate, like a part of people's daily lives. Twitter's legitimacy continues to decline.
Is it happening??
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The integration was removed as part of the Nintendo Switch’s 18.1.0 update, taking away the ability for users to link their X account with the console, or post in-game screenshots from Super Smash Bros.
The removal of these features comprised the majority of the 18.1.0 update, which also includes some general stability improvements and ditches support for linking social media accounts via the Switch’s Friend Suggestions feature.
Nintendo announced these changes last month but didn’t explicitly state the reason for pulling support for X.
Given Switch users can still share their content to Facebook, it likely has something to do with pricing changes to the X API which now starts at $42,000 a month for enterprise customers.
Microsoft didn’t mention X’s API update when it removed the ability for Xbox consoles to share game uploads to the service last April, nor did Sony when it followed suit in November for the PS5 and PS4.
Cost may not be the only factor as Slack said it had also pulled support because the API updates impacted the functionality of its own X integration, but regardless of the reason, console gamers will now have a hard time connecting directly with the platform.
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Y not?
You love to see it! Stand with trans folks ❤️
At what point were we all on Microsoft/Nintendo/Sega's side wtf?
Everyone sucks here.
Seems like there are bootlickers among as...
That sucks M8 I saw the news for the Nintendo switch discounting support shame really would've loved to browse twitter on my switch while I chill in bed maybe listen to some chill music
You're reading too much into this. I'm sure it was because of lack of usage
Yeah can't be become it's 42k usd a month for th api npw
According to the article, Twitter is also charging $42,000 minimum for enterprise access. That's over $500k per year. If I was a Nintendo employee, I would not only cut that expense, but also use it as leverage for a massive end of year bonus.
use it as leverage for a massive end of year bonus.
Hahahahaha. Right. Like saving the company any money comes back as a bonus to the person. Best we can do is a shitty award on slightly thicker 8.5”x11” paper.
I know a decent amount of friends who use(d) Twitter to share moments and screenshots of after-game reports and random "aint this wild?" Moments.
And Splatoon on Switch got a big bonus from the memes the sharing enabled due to user generated content.
