SONY PlayStation 4/5 are ending X/Twitter integration Nov 13th

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that PlayStation 4/5 are ending X/Twitter integration Nov 13th. 

Playstation announced all 𝕏 integration on PS5 will end next week, including ability to share photos and videos.

This is likely due to an API dispute and/or Sony being unwilling to pay the now higher 𝕏 API fees.

Sony terminating it’s X/Twitter integration on its consoles next week. 

Sony is terminating integration with X, the social media service formerly known as Twitter, on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles next week. According to a notice posted to PlayStation’s support website, the ability to “view any content published on X on PS5/PS4, and the ability to post and view content, trophies, and other gameplay-related activities on X directly from PS5/PS4” will end on Nov. 13.

The PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5’s integration of Twitter — Sony never updated the app’s branding on console to reflect its new name, X — has been a simple and straightforward way to share screenshots and gameplay clips to social media for the past decade. Every day, thousands of pieces of media captured on PlayStation are share to X with the #PS4Share and #PS5Share hashtags.

Sony describes it as a “termination” and while we can’t accurately interpret the reasoning without Sony providing one, one can read between the lines and suggest this isn’t an amicable split. It’s possibly related to owner Elon Musk’s decision to charge accounts exorbitant fees for access to the Twitter API

Under Musk’s leadership, content providers and developers have been frustrated by decisions that make it more difficult to interact with content when posted to X.

Twitter/X disabled links from Substack and, more recently, won’t load article previews and headlines from any third-party sites within posts. X now just shows the main image accompanied with the article. With the removal of Twitter/X integration, PlayStation users will need to jump through a few more hoops to share their media on the platform. The simplest method will be using Sony’s official PlayStation App for Android and iOS, which lets users transfer screenshots and video from their PlayStation console to a mobile device.