Nintendo Discontinuing 'X' Integration On Switch Next Month

I mean to be fair, Twitter is gross.

If there ever was a time for Miiverse to succeed with another chance, now would be that time.

Oh no! Anyway…
There are probably quite a few people who used this, but it’s not a big deal that it’s gone, now is it?

I think I only posted pics on X or Twitter only a few times. Definitely not a huge loss for me, I always liked to send the Switch pics on my phone for the most part.

Bro I forgot you could even do that

Good riddance.

Elon wont be happy

@dimi I'm surprised he hasn't gone on a tangent about it. Makes me think he's trying to negotiate with them privately and doesn't want to blow it if there is a chance.

@HotGoomba Actual free and open debate, without having to worry about being instantly banned for wrongthink, is "gross?" Whatever you say, dude.

Well, that's a bummer. I actually used this feature as my main method of saving Switch screenshots to my PC.

I'm one of the few here (I guess) to actually make use of that; in fact it's the reason I made a Twitter account when Miiverse went down in the first place. Bleh. :<

@pneumaticgnosis spoken like a true twitter user

List of people who still call twitter by its failed rebrand

•Elon musk
•Liam Doolan

End of list

It was a convenient function, but not the biggest loss so long as we can continue to transfer clips and pics to other devices without having to remove our entire MicroSD cards.

Oh no, won't be able to post on a service overrun with some of the literal worst people on the planet.

Let it go.
I don't even use Twitter aka X.

I never used the feature (or even knew it was an option)... But why would you do this to the people who enjoyed it? Like, what's the motivation for making the change? It's not like you're disabling MySpace support or ICQ chat. Both of these platforms (Switch and Twitter) are still plenty relevant.

I kinda forgot this was a thing and that I actually made an account just for this thing.

Imagine if Nintendo hadn’t given up on Miiverse or some other Switch centered, in house social media service. Nintendo could potentially have a social media platform with over 100 million users right now.

In fact, if a more powerful Switch is coming, it’d be silly not to give it another shot. Imagine if you could make and post Nintendo content without fear of copyright strikes, stream to other Nintendo users, and get paid for it? Nintendo with its own streaming platform and social media service would put the fear of god into Twitch, Kick, and Youtube

I know X has been a very toxic playform lately and Nintendo wants to distance itself from the controversy. But somehow I have a feeling this could also mean the Switch could start the same path the Wii U and 3DS had regarding their online functions being slowly discontinues as rumors of the “Switch 2” are getting stronger.

The headline seems correct but still makes it sound like they're closing their Twitter account.

What if there was some tech behind this that had a contractual expiration, and this is simply due to the new console not being ready yet?

Ending support in the most successful social media?! can you imagine if they announced this before the successor announcement? People would have gone nuts with the speculation.

It's kind of surprising they've held out so long, considering that Twitter's changes to API expenses caused Sony and Microsoft to drop support much earlier. Never used the feature, though. If there's anything I care enough to share beyond my Switch, I fire up SwitchBuddy

I was expecting this to happen since Sony and Microsoft ended support a while back. Not really too bothered myself since I never used it.

@pneumaticgnosis

Wait so this means I can now make plaza posts! That’s a plus!

I don't post screenshots on Twitter anymore since I can just upload then on a PC via a USB cable.

And also I'm cutting back on Twitter since it became more of a cesspool of toxicity.

@pneumaticgnosis The fact that the new owner started to ban users he didnt like soon after he took over already showed that the whole "free and open debate" talking point was never serious to begin with.

Even ignoring that, the whole "Pay $8/month to have your comments prioritized" also undermines any idea of debates being "free and open."

By all means, you can defend Twitter, but let's not kid ourselves here...

@pneumaticgnosis not when it is also loaded with hate speech. That's why I stopped using Twitter. And I don't mind if the Switch ends its support for it.

Just the other day, I was thinking about what a pure gaming device the Switch is, with this being one of the few exceptions I could think of. Now it's down to youtube and I think two streaming services. I wouldn't mind getting a browser and a few other services on the Switch 2, but I really hope it holds onto a bit of the Switch's beautiful simplicity.

@pneumaticgnosis It has also helped turn our society into a volatile an polarised time bomb. We weren’t ready for the responsibility of instantly sharing every opinion with the entire world. Humanity should have learned about restraint first, before giving every idiot a megaphone.

I am for one SO shocked, surprised, aghast, that Nintendo found that allowing their users to only share content to a social media website that’s running on duct tape, two staffers, the weirdest ad funding imaginable since literally every other company left, and full of both mostly bots, outrage content, and not family friendly content, was possibly not a good idea for the brand. (Was the sarcasm clear on this one?)

Thank Elon, his garbage and his bought "nudes in bio" bots for this.

I wish they had clarified the reason.
I’ve never used Twitter but I get annoyed at all the netizen hive mind acting like Musk is some villain and that has anything to do with this change.

Splatoon 3 was the reason I created a Twitter account. I drew a few images and stopped. I now have a good reason to delete my Twitter account.

Well, if we get Miiverse back, then fine!

This is why many partners, companies, and people are planning to leave or end support for X (formerly known as Twitter).

It was my go-to option to quickly get my screenshots online, so I'm a bit miffed.

And nothing of value was lost.

The only reason I had a twitter account was to post my screens and then grab them. Haha.

I know there are other ways, obviously, so I don't really care at all.

Nobody calls it X. Might as well start calling the post office ‘Consignia’.

@PtM I think Twitter has devolved to the point of them concluding it's not worth renewing the sub. Subjecting kids to pornbots isn't a good look. I hope they have their own solution for social media, one that they have more stewardship over (and of course, one where folk who are old enough to vote complain about it being inoffensive lol.)

@PtM So your saying Nintendo should charge more for there online Services? It was free during the WiiU era right?

At everyone who says they used this method to save screenshots to your phone, there is a method now where you can directly download pics (and videos) from your Switch to your phone? So this is essentially cutting out the middleman in this case.

@pneumaticgnosis Until one says something lord muskrat doesn't like, hmm? 😉 Lol, beyond comical that that clown has suckered millions into thinking he's their saviour or something. Gross indeed, especially the PIB bots. 💩er is a train wreck of a train wreck.

@Serpenterror Twitter is done, so long as muskrat is running it. The platform can't continue losing money and users indefinitely. The PIB bots are everywhere, and even popular pages I follow, like for shopping deals, are seeing decreasing followers.

@pneumaticgnosis

This was how I posted Switch screenshots to Discord within a minute of taking them Couldn't they have got rid of the Facebook side of things instead?

I thought it had already been removed I tried a bunch of times recently and got error codes.

I always laugh when people say (insert name of social media) is full of bad people or whatever, these things are what you make them and reflect what you use and search for. My twitter feed is full of indie game developers and car people with the odd thing from another one or two of my hobbies, Warhammer, maybe a fitness thing etc. If it’s full of negativity it’s only yourself to blame.

It’s kind like when that US senator complained that the adverts on a site he visited had mens lingerie (or whatever it was) advertised not knowing that they were targeted ads based on his previous searches 🤣🤣

Ah good, nothing of value was lost.

Oh no.

I used it once in 6 years, but still....oh no!

Note to anyone complaining about the content on X/Twitter:

Just block and silence everyone you don’t like.

There are all types of voices and people on the platform and you can cultivate a feed that suits you very easily.

If you think it’s a cesspit, it’s because you are letting the algorithms determine what you see without your input.

@Ironcore exactly!

I have an X account only for gaming, entertainment and cool science stuff. I don’t even see any politics or toxicity on the platform.

Twitter has always been a cesspool, but it’s gotten significantly worse under the new ownership. (Which isn’t to say there aren’t still some good posters there.)

It’s also absolutely not uncensored. Anyone who believes otherwise is overly credulous.

Nevertheless, I’m guessing this is due to a behind-the-scenes change, rather than some statement about the state of the site. After all, their accounts there continue to be active.

YES PLEASE. NOW PLEASE BRING BACK MIIVERSE!!
I don’t speak for everyone but I’ve long deleted my Twitter account once it was announced that Musk was taking over and I have no regrets. I won’t support that laundry airing nonsense and what that wasteland has become since.
Same with Facebook and them with the trying to be discrete but failing miserably at spying on me crap.
I know most places have my data anyway by now but I try to limit what I can and take back a little control at least.
Miiverse was by gamers, for gamers, and well thought out and fun. I like that kind of environment. Bring that back please.

@Thomystic I feel like Nintendo having a twitter account at this point is more like a placeholder. If Nintendo themselves didn’t claim (and hold) it, someone else would and start posting random stuff. I think Nintendo actively still uses the account too but I was thinking they can never actually back out now because wouldn’t that maybe free the account up for grabs, if even after Z amount of years?

I used this feature quite a lot to share screenshots with my brother. I'm baffled as to why they decided to remove the functionality.

The thing I'll miss is the automatic hashtags associated with the game (so I can browse other posts from fellow switch users), but I've uploaded by connecting my switch up to my laptop before, and that method offers other benefits too, like containing similar posts to a single thread, and adding edited or cropped photos.

I'll miss using it though. I know twitter is regarded as a cesspit, which is why I don't delve in to the activist side of it. I have separate accounts - one of which is used solely for video videogame related posts, and that suits me fine.

Really? Wow.

So, anyway...

For Splatoon 3 that's good that you can now post without going through social media, but it's a shame Splatoon 2 posts seem to be going away completely.

This whole mechanic needs to be revamped. I am using the picture transfer via facebook and it is insanely unfriendly system with many steps.

So I've only seen a few people mention this in the comments and quite a lot of speculation as to WHY Nintendo would drop integration for Twitter.

Twitter hiked the price of it's API (the API is kind of like the middle man that lets the Switch etc., access Twitter's information so that it can post directly from the console without logging into a separate Twitter app) last year, which has meant companies like Sony and Microsoft have been dropping integration with Twitter because it just costs too much money to make any business sense, especially when people are using Twitter less than ever. Nintendo was the last of the big console makers to drop integration, so this isn't really unexpected after their rivals did the same thing last year.

This has been terrible for smaller and independent software developers/researchers that used Twitter's API to form part of their app/research. Musk's reasoning for this is that he believes the API is being abused by bots and scammers, and the increased price will deter them, however most companies have been put off by the price increase at a time when Twitter is losing users at a more rapid pace than the other main social media apps.

Absolute heresy to lose an integral feature of the Switch that barely anyone knew existed!

These comments pretending that Nintendo are taking a stand against Elon Musk.. Elon doesn’t want a free API model and AI models scraping all the data. I think it starts at $5000 a month now.

@Toshiro_Baloney You would do it because Elon now charges people you much, much more money for the privilege of using his API.

Thanks Elon Musk for stupidly driving up the API costs and overseeing rampant instability and toxicity on the platform.

Honestly I’m happy about this just because I can now post drawings on splatoon without a twitter account. It really sucks that I had to have one. I’m just happy that I can now.

Seems like a trend with social media integration lately. PS4 ditched external screenshot uploads a good while ago, and my returns to the mobile Opera Omnia and SMT Liberation in the recent months had me restart both games from scratch because the latter's Facebook and somehow even the former's very Google Play identification management ties had been severed by then. I'll kinda miss the screenshot upload on Switch myself, but with other transfer methods introduced over the years, it's certainly not indispensable.

Wow, Nintendo has taken Wario's lead and is leaving now. So this isn't killing Splatverse in Splatoon 3, then? Could this actually improve it?

Besides the Splatfest Main Event, I've mostly left posts off in the game because of so much junk it's had since the beginning, and even before the beginning in the World Premiere. I commend the few good artists who still bother, but Splatverse has been full of stupid jokes, too many memes, Shiver hating, and even swearing once in a blue moon. It's nothing like it used to be in Splatoon 2 or Miiverse in one.

I've only used Twitter for Nintendo stuff and Splatoon news. It’s how I've gotten screenshots on the web. Surely there's still going to be a way to do that, right?

Nintendo just needs to bring back Miiverse. Ending Miiverse was legit one of the worst things Nintendo's ever done. It was a nice, clean, fun way to officially connect with Nintendo fans, and I got so much awesome fan art and memories from that, but Nintendo evidently got tired and forced players to be the moderators on social media instead, which proved to be pretty subpar in Splatoon 2 and 3.

@CaptainCluck nah, for enterprise it's $42,000 for the lowest access tier, the expensive one is $210,000
and that's per month
and that's only the minimum, it can be much higher depending on how much companies want to use it

They're thinking of the children who get the "my ____ in bio" replies

Is anyone surprised? Elon destroyed the platform, and even before he had the keys it wasn't great. I'm just surprised more people and companies haven't ditched it already--it's a joke, right down to its ridiculous name and nutjob owner.

Honestly I assumed they already had given Xbox and Playstation both dropped Twitter support ages ago.

Either way, I'm sure it's being done for the API reasons but yes, Twitter is a cesspool owned by one of the dumbest human beings to ever live.

Silly thing to begin with. Axe all social media integration with consoles. Also nice of Nintendo to give everyone a chance to performatively bash that guy who did the thing people don't like, so adorable.

@TheRazzBerry Yeah, not really. The few times I wanted to share screenshots, I uploaded that way out of laziness.

I think you can still move pics & clips from the Switch to your pc via USB, right?

I wish they'd integrate different platforms to post directly to, like instagram.

Having Facebook as the only option is awful.

Twitter/X has improved massively since Elon Musk took over, to the point that even Jack Dorsey endorsed Musk's leadership and policies earlier this week after stepping away from Blue Sky.

Nintendo's move is understandable, but it's a very minor deal in the greater scheme of things for both companies.

Speaking of Musk, I very much hope that he buys Hookshot Media next and injects with his very refreshing policies on free speech. Hookshot Media is crying out for such a revamp.

Time for Miiverse to make its grand reentrance.

I know people see Twitter as a rotting cesspool of negativity—and it is—but there were only two options for posting directly from the Switch to a social media platform, it just depended on which scab's platform you prefer, whether it's Melon Husk or Suckerberg. Now there's only one option, and the only way to post to any other platform is to go through the ridiculous QR code BS to send your images to your phone or connect your Switch to a PC.

I don't understand why? Was this difficult to maintain? Or is it just a sign Switch is ending?

@Toshiro_Baloney @Automated_Unit_4937 You need to understand who's in charge of Twitter right now. If Twitter was a swamp a few years ago, it's a toxic cesspool now, in no small part because of the guy who owns it. Hate speech is rampant on the platform, with people who violated the Terms of Service under the old Twitter being allowed back on the platform under Elon Musk.

Nintendo tries to maintain a family-friendly image, and Twitter is anything but that at the moment. So naturally, they are going to divest themselves from a platform that is catering to hatemongers in order to protect their image and bottom line. I frankly don't blame them.

@nessisonett I just call it Twix

i use the bluetooth connect to phone and upload on youtbe , the Resolution at least stay in 720 , twitter is too low

Wow, this comments section got political real quick.

@AstroTheGamosian yeah i highly doubt that's it. X is extremely popular in Japan.

I used to use this feature more, but not so much lately, mostly because I haven't been playing my Switch quite as much.

If this ends up killing off all the, shall we say, divisive posts plaguing Twitter from ever showing up in Splatoon 3 and such, then I welcome it. There's a time and a place for those sorts of things, and a game about funni, colorful cephalopods is not one of those places.

@calbeau it's times like these that they close the comments...

Ffs, just bring back Mii verse

@ChromaticDracula Kit and Krysta addressed this in a Q and A a month or two ago. Twitter/X is their top platform in terms of audience, so they won't be going anywhere.

Also, despite pioneering the Direct format, they used Twitter to announce a Zelda movie and now a console teaser. Any broad brushstrokes that they are deprioritizing the platform seem to be unfounded.

And I appreciate the headline change. It's much clearer now!

My Linux brain read that as Nintendo switching to Wayland

The social media platform is still literally twitter.com

It's still known as Twitter because that's the website you go to when you want to say ignorant things.

All because Elon decided to make companies pay an extortionate amount for the API. Surprised it lasted this long (including the bird logo remaining on the console) I use it all the time, if I have a screenshot or video I want to share. Just means I'll have to go through the slightly convoluted method of downloading it to my phone first. Hopefully you'll be able to do that on Switch 2 as well. The sooner a viable Twitter replacement steps up the better.

@dimi might have something to do with an updated API on X’s end. Nintendo either decided it wasn’t worth the time or there could’ve been a risk to consumers. Sony and Microsoft ditched all social media integration on their hardware too.

As a few have said, this probably is because of Elon's API price hike. Furthermore, let's say Nintendo saved some money by signing this API license a number of years ago; they probably assumed the Switch successor would launch by the time the contract expired. Now that the Switch 2 is delayed a year, they just figured there's no point in renewing an expensive license for the outgoing console.

@Automated_Unit_4937

X is extremely popular in Japan

And this is why I'm so upset that Elon Musk destroyed Twitter. To this day Twitter is still the best platform to explore international artists, illustrators and photographers without knowing what kind of key words to search for.

The Retweet/Repost feature still hasn't been emulated properly by competitors, and it's one of the best methods to discovering other artists similar to the ones you already follow, especially with other languages you can't read or speak.

My Twitter feed consists of beautiful art from artists across East Asia, all discovered by a seamless rabbit hole of: exploring one artist's profile page -> discovering 2 more profiles from their Retweets -> exploring a profile from a Retweet -> finding 4 more Retweets -> etc etc.

Never calling that platform "X" because Elon comes across like an entitled, arrogant loudmouth. It'll always be "Twitter" as far as I'm concerned, and it'll always be a platform best avoided. This is no loss at all for the Switch. Hopefully Twitter doesn't show up on the next Nintendo console. Games are what matters, not social media.

I'll leave the big X too. The only reason I had a Twitter account was to download photos from my Switch X-D

@pneumaticgnosis reckon it's quite charitable to describe most Twitter interactions as 'debates'

@Elitepatriot odd that you only use x when it is one of the only major platforms that allows xxx content

@Elitepatriot I’m so sorry that X is the only place you can freely express your bigotry

@iNintendo Thats right. You know whats going on!

I agree with others here wanting a return of Miiverse, or at least something similar to it. Never used Twitter/X, never wanted to. But I think I'd get back into a new and improved Miiverse.

I like how Nintendo never updated the Twitter logo when posting screenshots.

Honestly makes me miss Miiverse. One of the best parts of the Wii U. Truly one of the only Social Medias I liked and it was generally positive and supportive.

Twitter has turned into a cesspit of hate and anti-western propaganda since being taken over by Elon. So I'm not surprised. What brand would want to be associated with that?

@nessisonett

It was such a hilarious misfire. Which (former) public institution will be the next one to rebrand itself? Maybe Thames Water will rebrand itself as Acheron.

“Our name reflects one of mythology’s most famous rivers. Just like the fabled river Acheron, we embody a flowing torrent of sheer misery and — oh no…”

@ArcticSin

About bloody time! Goodbye X servers! 😂

@pneumaticgnosis you think "X" is open and free from censorship? Well I have a bridge to sell you then. Whatever the "algorithm " decides is popular will be shared on mass, even to those who do not follow but those it decides are not will not be shared, that is censorship in its most basic form.

@Sarkos yeah for me as well. A special twitter account just for this soni could pick up the photos easily. I know nintendo later dod spmerhing for the smart phone but that always seemed more
Complex

Miiverse ftw!

@pneumaticgnosis "Free speech" doesn't equal acting like a domestic terrorist, intimidating people, sending death threats, etc.

Everyone is allowed to have different views and debate this on a public forum.... in a civil way.
No one was ever banned on Twitter for just being anti-this or anti-that.

At the end of the day, Twitter was a private company and had every right to set their own social and behavior guidelines, people had to adhere to.

And if you didn't like it, those peeps could go to 4chan and act like total a-holes, rant like pricks and do whatever they want.
Now the new X has been slowly devolving into a new 4chan, after Musk took over and fired almost everyone.
Now there is just a one-person moderation team called Elon Musk and everyone is subjected to his erratic and whimsical behavior.

Why you think Advertisers have been abandoning the platform in droves.... and it has nothing to do with cancel culture like Elon Musk tries to portray it, playing his usual victim card.
These companies have every right to protect their own business interest, their corporate image and values and decide where they spend their money on advertising.
Just like Nintendo now decided to abandon the X platform. It's their own right to do so.

While I don't think Nintendo is doing this because Twitter is bad/a liability now, it's good that they're dropping the platform either way.

Adding to everyone else's comments on the platform itself, the only people who care about "free debate" or whatever are people so bathed in privilege that they have absolutely no dogs in any fight.

Everyone else just wants to live their lives and not have to justify their every action to some weirdo who spends their days huffing podcasts that insist they're a special little boy for worshiping rich people.

It's entirely possible that Nintendo just decided the API fees were too high to pay for too little gain and it has nothing to do with Musk or his personal or political quirks. Sony cut Twitter/X out of its ecosystem as well.

@Narrator1 Oh you can bet it has everything to do with it.

Before Elon Musk times, Twitter was one of their main communication channels. XBox, Sony PSN, Nintendo (to a lesser extend), lot of Game studios, etc made big announcements on Twitter, used it for Customer Support updates on outages, Marketing campaigns, etc.

Now that both users are fed up with the platform and leaving it in droves and advertisers abandoning the sinking ship in droves.... there is indeed little incentive left to stay on the platform and as you said, pay those API fees.

used twitter for less than a week in 2014. its garbo.

The X feature will soon be an eX feature.

Nintendo giving Musk the middle finger, you love to see it!

Elon is garbage. Twitter was always garbage but it's even worse. Rest in piss, you won't be missed

@pneumaticgnosis well, yes, twitter is gross. We had a terrorist incident here in Australia, where someone was stabbed and the footage was shared to twitter, and despite the government asking to take it down (because why would you keep that kind of thing up?!) twitter has been refusing.

Say what you will about censorship, I think that’s pretty gross

@GarlicGuzzler “Free speech” nowadays for many means “free to openly be a hateful bigot with no repercussions” unfortunately. Even the Muskrat himself is publicly doing it.

I’m surprised they didn’t do this earlier since they pulled advertising from the site over a year ago. Needless to say it’s very telling that this whole rebrand has been a complete and utter failure considering all of these companies are saying “yeah no thanks”.

@pneumaticgnosis
You obviously said something truthful because of all the hate you are receiving.

Twitter was garbage before Musk and I still see no value in it.

To sum it up all the "X" hatred, I would compare it to sympathizers for extremists Mao and Stalin are saying that Nazis are bad. Pot calling the kettle black.

Remember, all of these leftists were in love with Musk back on the day. They thought he was cool. I never understood all this admiration to begin with. Now they feel betrayed and are releasing their anger to anyone that slightly disagrees.

@pneumaticgnosis unless you're a journalist, and you cover Elon Musk.

@GarlicGuzzler that's all terrible. I don't know how people continue w social media anymore. It's all so trash.

they really wanna glace over the API pricing huh. but ugh, regardless of your thoughts on twitter this is a shame, it really was a convenient way to upload and share game highlights. i used it a lot doing the switches early years

Let's all remember that free speech is a two-way street: the right to possibly offend but also to possibly be offended. It's the second part that a lot of people forget.

So it's now pricier to maintain an X connection for your gaming system. Makes sense Nintendo will choose to drop it considering it isn't an essential part of their system.

I only made a twitter account so I can share screenshots and clips from my switch to PC. I'm not really upset but I hope this gets sorted out or they add a smoother way to post things!

It would be cool if this got Nintendo to do their own thing cough*Miiverse?*cough

Nintendo likely decided the API integration wasn’t worth the price. It’s a fine line to walk before the ROI drives away users. Hopefully Twitter will see that. SM is fickle, what was popular one day is “old” the next so a service provider has to be aware of that. Looks like Facebook integration is gone as well. It sorta sucks for Nintendo that they have to go the internal route when it is obvious they wanted to step away from that when Miiverse folded. But I am curious as to how they deal with it.

Phew that’s features I didn’t even know existed 😵‍💫 But I’m old and play by myself. Somebody probably liked doing that.

Interesting. That it’s about a fee that wasn’t there before Musk (or way lower). He has a strange way of making business, but who am I to tell the guy how to get rich.

@Elbitryq Copying screenshots to PC is actually really easy. Just use an USB cable.

@GarlicGuzzler god really? What is wrong with people. Why? Just why? I’m sorry that has to happen to you…to anybody.

$40,000? Hiring an extra janitor or two at one of Nintendo's facilities is a better use of that money.

@babyThorman "further as he also continues to shun tyrannical governments like Australia..."

Yeah. Australia a real tyrant. After only Nazi Germany, the Land of Oz is everyone's pick for most tyrannical country.

40k per month. I want a slice of that pie. Too rich for Microsoft and Sony too… have to wonder if x went a little greedy on that.

I wonder with time how musk will be remembered for his handling of twitter

@timp29 He'll be forgotten, just like everyone else, probably. And he doesn't like that.

@Anachronism
I agree with this. I appreciate very much the "lack" of basic features. No Camera, no Mic(not sure about this one) etc means this is a very "safe" platform. I hope the next one followa suit.

@Ultimapunch one Janitor can make $40,000 or $20,000 per month ‽‽‽‽ 😯 I need to get into that career ! 🤑

ME: I don't care about X integration so it doesn't matter
ALSO ME: Nintendo, with their millions upon millions in the bank from Switch sales is not prepared to spend 40k on a feature for its users.

Hey, I love Nintendo as much as the next person, but this is just another example of them refusing to spend any damm money on features for Switch users. Still no themes. Still no proper folders. Still no eShop reviews.

I just take it as Nintendo cutting things that aren't worthwhile. In this age of smartphones, though convenient to post straight from the Switch, it's just not used by most.

@Jemil1992 Twitter has been hemorrhaging users since Musk took over. He's turned it into a trainwreck.

X is a cesspool. Good riddance. Spent 11 years on there when it was calles twitter. Not for me anymore

@babyThorman ah, yes. Fighting such distopian governments like Australia or Brazil. Not Russia, or China tho. Wonder why.

...Dude, really? Is that easy to convince people to simp for an incompetent billionaire that spent the days saying "concerning" at the most henious posts ever while tanking Twitter and firing thousands on Tesla? Just saying "freeze peach" is enough? What kind of free speech is he even advocating? What people is he defending that are apparently being silenced?

@prw_88 Love that your only answer to someone getting harassed on Twitter is "why are you on social media?" And then saying that they might be exaggerating their problems.

Or first suggesting that you doubt that the harrasment is because of pronouns in their bio while just right after saying that they should remove them because those "are not necessary". I guess the Twitter "freeze peach" does not include having pronouns in your bio.

@Jemil1992 I think its just purely as now Twitter charges companies for features like that. As the article said Sony & Microsoft politely declined to pay a large fee for a minor feature.

@Overzeal https://buffer.com/library/social-media-sites/

Not even in the top 10.

@wisdomsprince For me, it's more the lack of bloat that really makes it worthwhile; no ads shoved in your face on the menu, no forced updates, no convoluted layers upon layers of settings, permissions, EULAs, or any of that nonsense. They could stand to get the eshop running more smoothly and maybe give the option to turn off the little blinking alert dots, but other than that, it does an excellent job of making sure nothing gets between me and my games.

@nocdaes sony and ms already stopped the twitter integration last year. but nInTeNdO 🙄

The readers note at the bottom is important, and I was really hoping someone would point it out.

@prw_88 Bro wth this have to do with Mario. You remind me of myself in high school. There are two sexes but gender is literally made up so what's the matter with not fitting into either one? The native americans have had this concept long before we were born and NOW it's an issue?
Anyway it makes sense Nintendo would back outta X that cost of upkeep is WILD.

X is a zombie site now. No need to spend that kind of money to use Elon’s garbage API.

I seriously hate that every time I see the 'X' logo on Nintendo Life I'm like "oh boy they're finally bringing Xenoblade X to Switch!!!"

@Anachronism Agreed. I honestly dislike the more "involved" UIs. Sorry, but the Wii U UIs was a slow mess not matter how charming it was. Just opening a game on Wii U took like 3 times more than on Switch and that was even worse at launch. Recently I went back to play a bit of Xenoblade X and... oh god I forgot how slow it was.

What I would like in the new console is not more "charm" in the UI or Netflix but more options for communications (invites, direct messages to your friends, voice chat...) and make the interface even smoother (especially the sShop). Do that and it's basically a win for me. Although having actual folders and a way to make a personalized order for the games in your menu are small little touches that do not bloat the UI and would definetly be appreciated.

Who in their right mind calls it X?

@WhyYouLie Your comment reads like a parody on a radio in GTA. What are you saying?

Twitter or X is trash.

@spiderman0616 lol. Cause what else is there? Threads?

@Automated_Unit_4937 honestly? yes. It is growing little by little. Even if they are doing it by using Instagram as support. Instagram is another that is bigger, Facebook too or TikTok.

Although it's not like it matters since Nintendo also said that they are planning on discontinuing Facebook support too. And they never even tried to add other social networks since launch. So they probably just want to deprioritized distract social network sharing in general.

@WhyYouLie Wow, freedom of speech for all parties involved is the Soviet Union? Kindly elaborate on your views, otherwise just read up on the hyperbole you use first.

Miiverse returns in switch 2

@PtM Community Notes are great, there's blue ticks who spread misinformation and nonsense on there and get paid for it, if their post is full of lies and gets noted, it gets demonetised and the post has to wear that note around its neck no matter how often it gets shared.

@calbeau what ?

X is the dumbest name ever. No one ever says it without clarifying that they actually mean Twitter. I usually enjoy Elon and what he does, but that was just dumb. Twitter is perhaps one of the better names for any online thing, ever.

@pneumaticgnosis That just makes it a cesspool of nonsense for all sides.

@jco83 Yikes. I didn't realize it was $40,000 a month. I thought that was the yearly rate. No wonder all the companies are dropping integration. Half a million a year is ridiculous.

@Ultimapunch IKR ! Crazy ! 🤑 Elon Musk greedy MUCH !???

@pneumaticgnosis

Lol Someone's dizzy off of the kool aid. It's funny that you say that considering that elon is known for blocking people left and right himself & that people that have called him out have been canceled or banned. I mean perhaps if you're a lonely basement dwelling hateful of everything incel type you'll have a great time and last there. As that seems to be what's mostly there now anyways

@heisnbrg

I mean, there wasn't a lie detected in any of that.