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All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'm not a gamer or a xitterhead but what would these consoles do with xitter integration.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

For uploading game clips I'd assume

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

For Nintendo, it was the only way to upload your screenshots to the internet if you don't have a PC or phone with an SD slot. The other consoles have other integration you could use for images (and they all have YouTube for video) so this kinda sucks for Switch owners that have literally no other way of getting their screenshots online.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nope there's a feature that lets you download the screenshot to your phone wirelessly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and it's extremely janky.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It is. Last time I needed a screenshot I tried that, it never worked and I ended up removing the SD and reading from it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Sharing screenshots and video captures.

The only place where I tried to use it was on Xbox back when Xbox One first came out, and I didn't like the way it worked back then, so I didn't really use it much. It didn't send the actual media to Twitter, it posted a link to the file, and Xbox screenshots got deleted after 30 days. If I wanted to properly post it so that the media was actually hosted on Twitter, I had to save the full res media anyway.

(In fact actually saving full resolution Xbox screenshots used to be needlessly difficult. Only much later they added a way to save screenshots to OneDrive, which occasionally worked, and only very recently they decided they don't bother with the Xbox screenshot hosting at all and auto-upload everything to OneDrive.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you mean twitter? it's called twitter

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Xitter being pronounced "shitter" is pretty apt tho