This would be great if Nintendo was genuinely concerned about encouraging the usage of a hostile platform. Sadly odds are that it cares about its brand way more than “those things” playing their games.
Nintendo didn’t provide one [reason], but it’s likely due to X’s increased API costs
I don’t think so. Even with the abusive costs the price would be rather small for Nintendo, in comparison with the advertisement of its games in Twitter. I think that it’s mostly a “eeeeew, Nintendo has X integration? Nintendo must be fascist.”
Either way it’s a positive.
More like “Joanne got a promotion for integrating X!”, followed by “Mike got a promotion by saving the company 2M/year!”
I think that it’s more like “Mike got a promotion *for saving our brand from unnecessary damage”. The whole thing stinks “muh brand” from a distance for me.
Was anyone tweeting from the switch in the first place?
Cool. Now if they’d stop advertising on and using a platform that’s primarily Nazis that would be greaaaaaaat.
Twitter is not primarily nazis
Source?
Huh. You learn something new every day.
Rare based move from Nintendo.
No point in expending resources to support a dying social media platform people barely had reason to use from a game console when it was popular.
Yeah because Twitter is very popular in Japan.
What the fuck u talking about?
This is wild to me.
Japan has 1/3 the population vs the US so that means that nearly every man, woman, and child has Twitter in Japan vs 30% of US people.
that is why I mean it is very popular in Japan. it is in top 3 right? the highest in Asia?
If you are absolutely locked in to someone else’s service, then there really isn’t anything you can do if they do something object able, better to rip off the Band-Aid now than later.
X Formerly Known As Twitter isn’t functionally irreplaceable, and I do hope the higher up at Nintendo will realize the only way that the only way to make sure they have full control of their publishing platform is by owning it and start a Misskey instance or something.
I don’t understand the mindset in this thread. Functionality is neutral. Withdrawal of it is not a good thing - people should be able to comprehend that even if their vision is partially blocked by their hate boner for X/Musk.
*strokes hate boner while blocking tregetour. Mmmm, yea, you like it like that dontcha.
I see what you’re saying. As an isolated event it’s pretty meh. Maybe it sucks for the two people who used it.
In a sense, Musk was betting that Twitter’s API was undermonitized, and by raising the price, he’d make more money than he’d lose in people leaving the platform. He bet Twitter’s relevance against some money. Yeah, not a lot of people used it on Switch, but every rejection of his bet, that Twitter isn’t worth the price, hurts Musk’s bottom line. And it’s kinda on him; Nintendo isn’t defying him, he was just wrong.
Is it neutral? Nintendo integrating with X both advertises X and Nintendo
Brand integration definitely is not neutral. Functionality to make it smooth and easy interact with nazi-central lends Nintendo’s credibility to that platform. It’s not a neutral feature.
Remember that the next time a service you like removes a function you use due to maintainer bias or pressure from a particular audience.
Yeah, I will. These decisions don’t just come out of nowhere, and I think its always a good idea to try to understand why things happen. By understanding the reasons for things, the world is less likely to feel arbitrarily hostile and unfair - and I can make better informed choices for my own life.
If you assume:
- X is a bad thing (either because it promotes bad ideas, or because it crowds out better platforms, or some other reason)
- The more users and functionality X has, the more powerful it will be.
Then removing functionality from X is a good thing.
Everything has a cost. I would have cheered them removing twitter from a game console before it was ruined. Nobody really needs that. And the resources can go to something that supports the core functionality of the device.
Put it this way: If you took a thread talking about some tech from a joke community, and a thread about the same topic from a generic technology community, you won’t be able to tell them apart. People will bring the same energy and mindset to both. Jokes and “lol get rekt company I hate” will be pushed to the top, because they totally contribute to the discussion, while basic observations like “removing functionality is bad” will be pushed down. 👍
I’m aware of that, but it’s worth highlighting the double standard anyway.
Maybe they delete enough code to be able to give us a third “theme”.
No can do. All the removed code is replaced with stability
I don’t want stability. I want gaping holes where I can put more homebrew.
Can’t they at least update the localisation files too?
nice job elon
Masterful gambit sir
The site should now be just called “Formerly Twitter”
Even okay with X-Twitter
(It is ex-Twitter)
Roman Numeral 10
I don’t think anything could possibly chide him more than simply forgetting and continuing to call it Twitter.
give it the Prince treatment
The social media network formerly known as Twitter
Don’t you be disrespecting Prince like that!
You mean the artist formally know as prince?
It’s been nearly a year and we’re still calling it “X, formerly Twitter”. XD
Musk probably thought calling it “X” made it sound edgy and cool. I bet it really annoys him every time it’s called “the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.”
Apparently he has been obsessed with the letter since before the PayPal days. He owned X.com before joining PayPal. It was even named X for a little bit. Before it went public the name was changed to PayPal. Because of course X is a terrible name for brand recognition and marketing. I think part of this just fuck you to all the guys who started PayPal
Oh and remember the only real thing Musk brought to PayPal. Was his daddy’s money.
of course he’s obsessed with it. it’s pretty close to the swastika as far as letters go.
Speak for yourself lol, I don’t know any morons calling it anything BUT Twitter
“The artist formerly known as Twitter”
One of my big disappointment with social media integration was Xbox 360, where “share” was basically “share on Facebook.” Wasn’t happy with that. Who shares video game screenshots on the Boomer Network?
Was further disappointed on Xbox One where they had Twitter sharing buuuuuuuuut it only put in links to expiring Xbox screenshots and didn’t, you know, post the actual images on Twitter. I don’t know if they changed it since its introduction to actually post the images. I only wanted to get burned once.
And now, finally, Xbox has announced that Xbox screenshots and clips go to OneDrive. Fi-fucking-nally. How fucking long did it take for Microsoft to realise that people with Microsoft accounts might want to use two already coexisting Microsoft systems?
Dunno about Switch. Was happy with it storing pics on SD card. Was happy with dumping them on my NAS month after. Never used the sharing system. Probably because Nintendo would ban me if I did. Sharing videos or screenshots of Nintendo games? Absolutely bannable. It is known.
Facebook launched only one year before the Xbox 360 did it wasn’t the boomer network back then.
What? What type of integration? I just wanna watch Plex and Netflix on there.
Posting photos and videos from the Switch directly onto Twitter.
Good.
Cool.
