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Sony Interactive Entertainment sent a message via the PS5 and PS4's advisory systems mentioning that the consoles won't support X (formerly Twitter) integration anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TIL the PS5 & 4 had Twitter integration lol

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lol the PS4 and 5 had Twitter integration? Didn't even know that was a thing and I've been a Playstation user since the PS2 and currently rock a PS5.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Never tried hitting that share button in eight years?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not the person you asked, but honestly it's the most useless button on the controller. I hit it by accident, and want the menu to go away quicker than it took to load in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I haven't owned a PlayStation since the first one, there's a dedicated Twitter button on the controller?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No there’s a share button, it takes screenshots/videos and you can share them to certain platforms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It even replaced the select button, which to be frank was also quite useless (but not as much).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Technically it didn't replace the select button. The touch pad replaced the select button.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's the "share button". Apparently somewhere in there lets you post to a linked twitter account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I definitely see its use. Suppose you don’t consider yourself a content creator, but you’re playing GTAV and some absolutely hilarious one-in-a-million glitch happens where a ragdoll flips in JUST the right way. It’s good to have a fast button to be able to mark the recording for later. Could be that video would get to a million views, but only if you’re able to record it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've saved a few clips for this reason and I'd rather just go to the PS5 quick menu and open up the share screen from there. I don't know why that wasn't the option to begin with, are people saving clips frequently enough to require its own button?

Weird design choice.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

nope, it's a waste of a button. I hate that button with a passion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Counterpoint: I really enjoy taking photos in games that have photo modes, and it’s a great button for that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope, I'm pretty introverted and don't really have friends, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Doesn’t mean you can’t save some fun photos for later. They save to your console by default; you don’t have to share them at all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

PS4 had Twitter integration?

Man, everyday i'm more glad i stopped at the PS3.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's just for media sharing, like posting screenshots and video clips.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Even the switch had that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

My wife and I share a PS4 and neither of us knew it had Twitter integration.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah because we've gotta share clips of what we play to several dozen fucking media places. I'm glad my better gaming days seemed to be resting at the PS2 era, didn't have all of this social media shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Man, Dirt 3 had YouTube integration and npcs telling you to 'upload that sick trick to youtube'. A wild time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Am I the only idiot that read X as X11 then realized it was referring to Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

No, the logo is basically identical

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Burn baby burn

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

What are they going to replace it with? The X button is so iconic! … oh, gotta finish reading the headline before commenting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Who the fuck is using xitter on a ps5?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

How will scrubquotesX get content now?