Brent @SkyCladBrent:
Imagine there being a website so popular that game console manufacturers put a dedicated button on their controllers to take and post screenshots and then you fuck the website up so much that they disable it
) Nintendo of America @NintendoAmerica · May 9:
As of June 10, 2024, it will no longer be possible to post screenshots and videos to X (formerly Twitter) from the Nintendo Switch’s Album, or send friend requests to social media users via the Friend Suggestions feature. Find out more: ninten.do/6010YVr2a
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TBF, if it was because the site was so fucked up they would have left a while ago. No, it is because of Twitter attempting to extort even more money for API use. Playstation and XBox are also removing it.
There are no morals in these gigantic corporations, just ledger sheets.
The extortion for API use is how they are fucking it up, from the console manufacturer’s perspective.
Isn’t that the same thing Reddit did to kill third-party apps?
Except Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft were already paying Twitter crazy money for the API to begin with. Musk could have kept his mouth shut and kept that money but being a greedy asshole apparently matters when your trying to extort more money out of other greedy assholes
What is this person even talking about? There’s no dedicated button to post screenshots. There’s a screenshot button, but you had to go into the album menus to post them.
Assuming digital button here.
Like how a lot of sites, link to Facebook, insta, X, etc at the bottom of their web page. Just the fact it was an option meant something.
Post literally says “on their controllers”.
It might not be a thing on Nintendo but it definitely is on PlayStation and Xbox.
They also don’t. They have “create” (playstation) and “share” (xbox) buttons. Both are multi-function and configurable and posting to twitter is one of the functions you can access through them. Neither is dedicated to posting to twitter.
Right
“but it definitely is on PlayStation and Xbox.”
Well done, you went full dumbass. Why say that? Did you actually think that PlayStation and Xbox has a “post to twitter” specific button? That makes no sense.
You know I can just learn new information every day, right? I can be a dumbass now but not within the next few days.
Also, a “post to Twitter” button would’ve been cool back in the day, not so much anymore.
X, formerly known as Twitter
The biggest fuck you to Musk 😂
I particularly enjoy that they repeat it 5 times in their blog post, because they really did not feel like readers would know which “X” they’re referring to.
Because Twitter as a brand had a godly status in terms of name recognition.
I mean, yeah, but also “X” has no name recognition at all. As in, you don’t even recognize that it is a name.
If the guy would have called it “Musk’s Nazi Paradise”, then you would have only had to explain once in the text, that it used to be called “Twitter”.
“X”, on the other hand, could be the figure of speech for an undetermined quantity or just a typo.I mean, yeah, but also “X” has no name recognition at all. As in, you don’t even recognize that it is a name.
And the truly sad part is, after all this time, this is still true.
Nah. The bigger fuck you is still calling it twitter with no acknowledgement of the name change.
An even bigger one would be calling it a centralised Mastodon alternative 😜
It reminds me of when Prince changed his name to an illegible symbol and everyone said, “Haha, no.” and started calling him “The artist formerly known as Prince” because a whole sentence was easier.
He only did that because Warner Bros argued that they owned the Prince trademark, despite it being his actual name, and wouldn’t let him use it outside of a contract with them.
Him changing his artist name was basically a big ‘fuck you’ to them, and TAFKAP being in common usage was an even bigger one.
Wow I didn’t know that.
I’m surprised that Nintendo lets people share screenshots and videos, given how eager they are to issue takedown requests at random whenever any of their properties is shown on the internet for whatever reason
Perhaps they thought it would be an extra source of revenue to make it easy for kids to post shit online that Nintendo can sue them for. Maybe they disabled it because they realized that gamers aren’t ready to accept that at this point so they’ll circle back in a decade or so.
Devil’s advocate: Given how many old TVs there are out there that are still working and have dedicated buttons for long-dead streaming services, is this really that a big of a deal? The moral of the story is don’t put dedicated buttons that go to services you don’t control on your products. But that’ll never happen…
You think of old TVs as smart TVs with buttons for dead streaming services
I think of old TVs as CRTs
We are not the same
Yeah I was like, old TV’s didnt have buttons for streaming services…
Look, I get it; I’m 36. But I’ve also come to terms with the fact that 1990 was not actually 10 years ago. Smart TVs have been around for long enough now that old ones can exist. Especially given how much faster the tech is evolving now.
My last TV from 2020 only lasted 2 years before I sold it and got a newer set. The old one couldn’t even hit 120Hz @ 4K; it could only do it at 1440p. So when I built a new gaming PC, I had to get rid of it just to be able to play at my TVs native resolution and refresh rate. And don’t even get me started on how much better and more affordable OLED is now compared to inferior display tech like IPS and VA. Just four years ago they would have been out of my budget. Which proves my point that TV tech evolves much more quickly than it used to.
There aren’t dedicated Twitter buttons on controllers. The screenshot button will continue to work, you just can’t share to Twitter anymore.
Those streaming services pay the tv/streaming box companies for those dedicated buttons. You wouldn’t believe how much Roku makes just from that.
One difference being that Twitter is not (technically) dead - Nintendo Is removing support for a service that continues to exist, presumably because they don’t want to be associated with it.
Had nothing to do with association, unfortunately:
And it bears repeating that none of the console companies are willing to pay the $ 42,000 minimum of monthly access fee to Twitter’s API, when they used to use this functionality freely. Twitter is hard pressed to make a case for them to do so, especially given the platform’s own current fortunes
This should be top comment.
Thanks! Thank god Twitter is so dead set on killing itself it doesn’t even need people or companies to make even the simplest moral decisions to leave it.
It was a capture button, not a post to Twitter button. It wasn’t anything remotely close to a dedicated button to posting to Twitter?
My silly ass thought it was a joke about every controller having an X button ahaha
Not that there’s any chance of it happening, but this would be an ideal use of the shared Mastodon/Pixelfed API. All the social media functionality, none of the being associated with any particular service provider.
I think it’s less the association and more the $42,000 minimum monthly API requirement.
Although one hopes it’s both.
