After move by Nintendo, no major gaming consoles now include Twitter / X integration
Before Elon Musk acquired Twitter in late 2022, the social media platform had a robust developer ecosystem filled with third-party companies integrating it into their own products. Musk's Twitter, now known as X, is a vastly different environment for developers. Case in point: As of Monday, June 10, 2024, all of the major video game consoles – Nintendo Switch, Sony Playstation, and Microsoft Xbox – have officially removed X / Twitter integrations from their products. X loses major gaming companies In April 2023, Microsoft was the first video game console manufacturer to announce that it was removing its X integration from Xbox consoles. In November of that same year, Sony followed suit and announced that it would also be removing X integration from its Playstation consoles. Since then, Nintendo has had the only major video game console on the market with X integration. But, just last month, Nintendo announced that it too had decided to drop its X integration from its Switch console. On Monday, June 10, Nintendo officially removed its X integrations in its Nintendo Switch 18.1.0 update. X integrations removed from Nintendo Switch "The following updates were made for the discontinuation of X (formerly Twitter) integration," Nintendo wrote in the update notes, listing what has been removed. According to Nintendo, in removing the X integration, users will no longer be able to choose the "Post to Twitter" option when sharing from the Album in the Nintendo Switch HOME menu. The option to link to X under "Posting to Social Media" in the User Settings menu has also been removed. Finally, a specific X integration for the game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate which allowed users to post screenshots from their gameplay directly to X has been removed as well. Why did Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft drop X? Neither Nintendo, Sony, nor Microsoft has explicitly stated why they removed X integrations. However, these companies all moved to drop X support from their consoles after Musk chang
After move by Nintendo, no major gaming consoles now include Twitter / X integration