All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration

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.