It appears as if Nintendo, like everybody else, is lastly fed up with toxicity, engagement farming, NSFW replies, and the utter randomness of the For You feed. The latest Nintendo Switch firmware update has eliminated all integration with X (previously Twitter), Elon Musk’s social community.
As of June 10, you’ll be able to now not submit screenshots to X out of your Swap or hyperlink your X and Nintendo Accounts. Nintendo additionally eliminated the flexibility ship buddy requests to pals and followers on all social media platforms. Simply to show it’s nothing private in opposition to Elon, Nintendo hinted that image-sharing through Fb could also be eliminated “at a later date,” too.
If you wish to share pictures out of your Swap’s picture album on X, you now need to switch them to a different gadget first — both through USB connection to a PC, or wirelessly (utilizing Nintendo’s fairly intelligent QR code system) to a wise gadget.
Nintendo is definitely the final platform holder to show its again on X integration; Microsoft and Sony disabled the characteristic on Xbox and PlayStation consoles final 12 months. It’s seemingly that the console-makers have left X as a result of exorbitant API fees imposed by Musk, which can lead to corporations paying over $40,000 per thirty days for little-used options.
At time of writing, Nintendo had but to submit hyperlinks to its Bluesky and Mastodon accounts on its profile web page.