Playstation is cutting off X sharing options
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And even to the extent that it was used, most of the benefit probably accrued to Sony and game publishers than to the Twitter platform. Nobody is joining Twitter to find out which map of Uncharted Jimmy is currently playing. For people who engage with Twitter in any other way, such tweets might feel a bit like spam and unlikely to do much for the stickiness of the platform, but perhaps decent marketing for the game in question.
Granted, it’s harder to do that on the Playstation but the alternative is just … not sharing it at all which probably is the case for most gamers.
I'm guessing this has to do with the pricing structure and the general change of direction of the X platform.
I love the idea that the peripheral might itself have connectivity to a wider system. Kind of scary, but here for example it's such a useful handy feature. Keep shooting photos on your camera while also being able to have your phone or laptop reading photos off live: neat. Would be great here too.
This could be a neat usb-gadget project. Take an rpi and make it look like a usb-mass storage device. There's a neat subproject there, of reading files off the file with the fat32 partition on it that backs that drive, while the ps5 is still using it.
Like... no, dickhead, I don't care how much money you spent on the company. It's Twitter.
Renaming things is dumb, and it's time someone fell on a sword for doing it. Apparently the Sears Tower wasn't enough of a warning.
The rename to X is different because it is Musk trying to make "fetch" happen. He convinced himself in the late 90s that "X" would be the ultimate website name despite a mountain of user feedback that it would, in fact, not be the ultimate website name. He's had a hyperfixation on it ever since. Now he's the richest man in the world after 20 years of artificially-low interest rates and incestuous relationships on Silicon Valley corporate boards, and no one will tell him it was a shit idea lest they lose their jobs or connections or because they've gotten as poisoned on the kool-aid as he is.
Feel free to use Mandarin inflections if you wish.
(Consignia was the name the Royal Mail (the UK Post Office) briefly, bafflingly adopted in 2001. Everyone completely ignored this, and they quietly changed it back a year or so later. The early noughties were _weird_.)
I don't even like Twitter, but this is yet another reason I stick to PC gaming.
Accusing PlayStation of being the walled garden here is laughable considering Xs practices.
Opinions are my own.
I'm glad to see that X has taken this route, and I look forward to seeing the fruits of their ingenious business acumen. I hope they raise their prices even more.
It's already too expensive which is why all the useful integrations have dropped off the platform.
Perhaps they've decided to cut off all bots so that only humans are left there
I have tons of crypto and NFT bot spam waiting for me every time I log back in.
The first chunk of your comment provided a lot of useful context
> Accusing PlayStation of being [a] walled garden
???????????????????????? is this argumentative fanboyism really helping anyone here?
Did they add some way to sideload your own apps or do what you want with photos and videos on the device at some point while I wasn't paying attention?
This is why people hate walled gardens. If everything is some half-assed walled garden, your ability to do interesting stuff gets painfully curtailed.
There was no accusation. It is merely a statement of fact.
Steam for example can also make these changes as they see fit. They aren’t required to support a 3rd party integration if it doesn’t suit their business. Sony is no different here.
Yes, but it's my computer and it is much easier for me to get the job done relative to doing it on some PlayStation, even without any help from steam.
Sony not giving you a way to easily extract your own data from the system is a consequence of it being a walled garden, but there's no onus on Sony to integrate specifically with other arbitrary third parties.
It has nothing to do with whether or not the PS5 is a walled garden or their feelings on Twitter as a platform. They liked it enough to add the feature in the first place, and when it didn't make financial sense, due to some highly questionable choices by the new CEO, they discontinued it. If Musk had any business sense he would have let them keep posting for free to drive up engagement, but he's obviously made some bad decisions and dramatically tanked the value of Twitter compared with what he paid for it so I can't speak to what drives his decision making process.
You still can easily post your PS5 media to Twitter, you just have to do it yourself instead of use the built in PS5 sharing feature. Much like most PC games that function without a dedicated Twitter sharing feature.
Did the Digital Markets Act incur any outcomes when this occurred?
But preventing twitter from being able to be accessed may not hold up.
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft
And the act has never demanded that two companies must integrate with each other.
It is also true that companies don’t need to “integrate”. But they do need to make their services compatible with other third party apps.
Gatekeepers will need to open up various APIs.