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
Because originally it was extremely cheap advertisement for your console and games?
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.
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
Well shit. And here I’ve been holding it at a 45 degree angle all this time.
This isn’t a joke I made up on my own, either. That’s legitimately what Sony calls it.
Honestly I back that decision. They’re all basic shapes, not letters, so cross is the obvious name for it. I started calling it that based on that logic without being told to.
And Sony originally had the intention of each symbol alluding to a particular action or concept:
- O is confirm or okay.
- X is cancel or go back.
- ☐ is map, menu, or option
- Δ is heading, recenter, or point of view
Interesting, especially that they intended the confirm and back buttons to be nintendo-like but I’ve never seen them used that way.
They are used precisely that way in most Japanese titles, but for some reason when Playstation games were localized outside of the Japanese market the baffling decision was made to swap the positions of the OK and cancel buttons. So we got X for OK and O for cancel, which totally makes sense…
Factually correct :) Sony use symbols not letters
Imagine if instead of X, Δ, O, and ☐ it was 4 different religious symbols. Like those “coexist” bumper stickers.
If you’re pushing everyone’s buttons it’ll end badly.
It makes extremists only able to push a single button and particularly combative atheists able to push none. At least Christians can jump I guess.
Only on playstation. On xbox and most PC controllers they can mostly attack. On switch they do like… the least common main action, or something context sensitive.
Elon Musk comes out onto a stage and announces that Tesla is entering the game console market when?
I believe you can already play games on the Tesla’s screen.
I do hope they’re disabled when driving…
Just rented a Tesla on holiday. None of it works while driving.
Have to say though I do like the car!
It took them this long? Impressive. Idiotic, but still impressive.
They probably just waited for the contracts to end hehe :')
They should add Mastodon integration instead.
No one will make money from that, so they’re not going to do it.
What is x? Is bobs n vagenes?
Ironically yes.
A year back this was a joke. But now it’s true.
Fucking good, everyone that still supports that wannabe fascist tool wears it as a badge of stupidity, at best.
Can we get a shout out for elon for killing twitter
It’s actually a huge feat to kill such a huge company that had so much momentum. Kudos to him. At this point he could make a business out of ruining things. Pay him to endorse a company if you want to tarnish its reputation.
Every once and a while I wonder if that might have happened
Not the first time I heard that. Met a hardcore Elonstan who defended he’s a genius, and that he was trying to take twitter down to profit off of insurance money.
Yikes. Yeah no. Best id guess is maybe foreign money hoping to tank a liberal platform… But I’m not married to that conspiracy. It assumes he’s smarter than he seems.
foreign money hoping to tank a liberal platform.
Since when was twitter a “liberal platform”?
The rightwingnuts have been running rampant over there for as long as I can remember.
Twitter was very diverse. You could see just what you wanted to see. My twitter was very liberal and tech oriented. But now everyone left.
You could see just what you wanted to see.
That’s not my experience. I never wanted to see rightwing conspiracy crap, but I wasn’t able to avoid it crowding my feed until I avoided Twitter entirely.
Eh, some of them. You weren’t generally banned for “merely” being right wing. But pre-Elon you generally had to toe the line a lot more to avoid being suspended or banned if you were overtly right wing than if you were liberal or left and now it’s the other way around.
Just like how the blue check started as an “I am a public figure and this account is definitely who I appear to be” mark and that’s it, then it became a mark of who you knew/could bribe at Twitter to move the process along and could be revoked for saying the wrong things on Twitter (for example everyone’s least favorite gay right wing provocateur Milo Yianwhatever had his blue check stripped for saying something too offensive well before he was banned), then post-Elon it became just a subscription service.
There was also a tendency to quietly artificially reduce visibility for a lot of right wing voices or hashtags. For example, female MRA and member of Honey Badger Radio Hannah Wallen literally got a bunch of her fans to do some pretty elaborate testing of her account at one point after her engagement numbers suddenly and mysteriously dropped and it turned out many of her posts were invisible except to people that followed her that she also followed, even to people specifically looking at her feed.
Certain right wing hashtags would have numbers that should definitely have them trending but mysteriously weren’t (or would be for just a few minutes and then suddenly vanish despite gaining popularity in the meantime), certain liberal/left hashtags would be trending despite seemingly not having the numbers for it to be organic, that sort of thing. Because Twitter moderation was curating what was and was not “trending”, literally blacklisting certain topics and bumping up others because of the visibility that being trending would afford.
It was all really, overtly obvious if you watched for it, like how certain accounts would be shadowbanned on Reddit for reasons that were both obvious and not spam-related despite shadowbanning supposedly only being employed as an anti-spam tool, or how certain subs would be allowed to openly ignore certain sitewide rules.
Elonstan in 2024? Who where?
They exist, believe me…
Insurance money? He thinks that there’s insurance for businesses being run into the ground?
Instead of… you know… actually profiting from one of the biggest companies in the world? After you paid it twice its market value?
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.
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
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.
I would’ve Xpected you to get their joke!
Yeah honestly I’m kinda bad at this.
Is it happening??
Are they going to integrate mastodon instead?
No. They’ll integrate with Threads.
You’re joking right?
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.
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Summary:
- Nintendo has discontinued support for X (formerly Twitter) integration on the Nintendo Switch console.
- The reason for pulling support is likely due to pricing changes to the X API, which now starts at $42,000 a month for enterprise customers.
- Microsoft and Sony also removed X integration from their consoles (Xbox and PS5/PS4) last year, but didn’t specify the reason.
- Slack, a communication platform, also pulled support for X integration due to the API updates impacting its functionality.
- Console gamers will no longer be able to connect directly with X, despite the X Gaming account claiming that its “partnership with Nintendo remains strong” in a now-deleted post.
$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…!?
Ha ha! Fuck you Elon. Way to make your shitty platform irrelevant faster.
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.
I used this exclusively to get screenshots off my switch easily. Still very happy about bigger companies cutting ties with the muskrat.
Getting screenshots or videos off the Switch is laughably arcane. Nintendo is so weird about modern tech conveniences.
It took Nintendo years to enable Bluetooth on the switch. The same tech the pro controller and joycons use. Years. Modders had it nearly day one of opening the console.
How do I get a screenshot to my phone?
- Turn off WiFi, enable it to make a temp local wifi, scan a QR code. Then open a web page and download them.
PlayStation and Xbox:
- You can just upload them to the network you already pay for, or put them on a flash drive.
Steam Deck: Syncthing automatically sends them to my computer :)
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.
