Sony is terminating integration with X, the social media service previously often called Twitter, on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles subsequent week. In keeping with a discover posted to PlayStation’s support website, the flexibility to “view any content material revealed on X on PS5/PS4, and the flexibility to submit and look at content material, trophies, and different gameplay-related actions on X straight from PS5/PS4” will finish on Nov. 13.
The PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5’s integration of Twitter — Sony by no means up to date the app’s branding on console to replicate its new name, X — has been a easy and easy technique to share screenshots and gameplay clips to social media for the previous decade. Each day, 1000’s of items of media captured on PlayStation are share to X with the #PS4Share and #PS5Share hashtags.
With the removing of Twitter/X integration, PlayStation customers might want to soar via just a few extra hoops to share their media on the platform. The only technique can be utilizing Sony’s official PlayStation App for Android and iOS, which lets customers switch screenshots and video from their PlayStation console to a cell machine.
Rival Microsoft made an analogous transfer earlier this yr, when it eliminated Twitter/X integration from Xbox consoles and the Recreation Bar on Home windows. Microsoft’s determination to that integration coincided with Twitter/X’s rollout of a brand new API pricing construction, which may value an organization like Microsoft greater than $40,000 per 30 days.
For now, the opposite current-gen console with Twitter integration, Nintendo Swap, nonetheless helps sharing media to the Elon Musk-owned web site.