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[–] [email protected] 115 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And nothing of value was lost. I can't imagine ever wanting to read a tweet from somebody's console game.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The point was to be able to send clips from your games directly to social media.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Right, that seems obvious. That's what I was talking about being of no value. Nobody needs to watch anyone's console game clips on Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I get we hate Twitter and rightfully so, but you really don’t see the value for a direct pipeline from consoles to a major social media platform?

People watching other people play video games (streaming, esports, etc) is a multi-billion dollar industry lol

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah sharing fun clips or a screenshot from a game you're playing seems as valid as posting any other video or picture you've taken to social media.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The headache of moving it from console -> phone/computer as well. Too many steps usually.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The switch does it really weirdly too.

You have to disconnect from wifi so it can create it's own hotspot, you connect your phone to that connection, then it hosts a little web server where you can open it up and download your shit.

I mean I guess it's better than xbox or playstations method which I honestly have no figured out yet. Not that I've really tried.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I mean I guess it's better than xbox or playstations method which I honestly have no figured out yet.

Yeah, way better than… selecting the share button(?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Switch and Xbox here: Xbox can do clips and screenshots, and upload to social media with one button.

It can also send all the clips and photos to an external storage device, which is what I do so it's easy to sync clips for making edits of them for videos and jokes.

Nintendo feels so bizarre in how they handle the screenshots. "Here's a dedicated screenshot button! Good luck sending this to anyone not on Facebook or Twitter!"

When there's third party apps and programs to make the job of Nintendo and it's fans easier, they fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I share off my Xbox with one tap of a button on my controller. It’s not very complicated lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Upload to what though? I want it on my phone or my computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

They go to cloud storage for 90 days. You can then save it locally from the Xbox website or app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think there are much better social media platforms for sharing clips. From what I've seen, most of Twitter is people angrily typing opinions at each other, so your target demographic may not be there. The UI is designed for text rather than video, and responses/reactions don't integrate nicely with videos.

Sharing game clips on video-oriented social media makes a tonne sense, however.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Remember, this was established over a decade ago with the PS4/Xbone. It was a very different landscape then.

Regardless Twitter or not, the use case for console -> social media seems pretty clear to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Also Nintendo and Sony are Japanese companies and Twitter is (or was? I stopped using Twitter even before it was sold, so I am not quite up to date) insanely popular in Japan, that's most likely the reason why it's Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But what if they're riding a horse and the horse does something silly? What then?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I do enjoy seeing a horse rocketing off into the stratosphere or using the skeletal animation from a bipedal NPC.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

No one believes me, but I actually got pretty close to the horse in very far away horse, but no tweets to prove it unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Nobody needs ~~to watch anyone's console game clips on~~ Twitter.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

My brother lives far away from me. Sometimes he uploads game play directly from his PS5 onto YouTube and I get a notification. Don't necessarily watch it for the content but it's nice to see his clips pop 9n my feed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some ppl used the Twitter integration to export screenshots from their Nintendo Switch since it didn't require USB or MTP