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.
nice job elon
Masterful gambit sir
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.
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.
*strokes hate boner while blocking tregetour. Mmmm, yea, you like it like that dontcha.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is it neutral? Nintendo integrating with X both advertises X and Nintendo
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
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.
Is that because it costs money now?
I lose track of all the Elon madness.
The API is apparently obscenely expensive to use
How much could a tweet cost? $10?
Was anyone tweeting from the switch in the first place?
OP’s username does not check out, these are actually Cool news
Good.
The site should now be just called “Formerly Twitter”
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 known as prince?
Even okay with X-Twitter
(It is ex-Twitter)
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.
“The artist formerly known as Twitter”
Speak for yourself lol, I don’t know any morons calling it anything BUT Twitter
Rare based move from Nintendo.
Yeah because Twitter is very popular in Japan.
What the fuck u talking about?
This is wild to me.
that is why I mean it is very popular in Japan. it is in top 3 right? the highest in Asia?
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.
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.
What? What type of integration? I just wanna watch Plex and Netflix on there.
Posting photos and videos from the Switch directly onto Twitter.
