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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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[–] jacobaaron@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TIL the PS5 & 4 had Twitter integration lol

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months 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.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Never tried hitting that share button in eight years?

[–] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months 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.

[–] alansuspect@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] alansuspect@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago
[–] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months 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.

[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 1 points 10 months 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.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago

Good riddance.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago
[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

PS4 had Twitter integration?

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

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Even the switch had that.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] snownyte@kbin.social -2 points 11 months 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.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

No, the logo is basically identical

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

Burn baby burn

[–] Kachilde@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 5 points 10 months ago

Who the fuck is using xitter on a ps5?

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

How will scrubquotesX get content now?