Nintendo joins Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox in removing X integration after Elon Musk hiked API fee pricing.

Nintendo is discontinuing the Switch's integration with Twitter on June 10. This means players will no longer be able to post screenshots directly from their Switch.

After Sony and Microsoft announced that they would be removing Twitter (or X, if you prefer) integration from their consoles, Nintendo remained as the sole survivor… until now. Nintendo announced that starting on June 10,

Elon Musk continues to run X (formerly Twitter) in a variety of questionable ways, and surely one of the oddest is the decision to charge vast amounts of money for access to the site’s API. As such, major firms are dropping integration with the hellsite,

Ever since X/Twitter ended free access to its API and revised the rules surrounding it, we’ve seen third-party apps cease service and major players alter their own relationship with the platform. After providing access to X/Twitter support since the launch of the Switch in 2017,

Nintendo re-confirms a major feature for its upcoming hardware, unofficially referred to as the Switch 2, that fans have been clamoring for.

No doubt, many Nintendo Switch users enjoy sharing their favorite screenshots and in-game videos to Twitter/X. However, those days are about to come to an end, as integration between the Elon Musk-owned platform and Nintendo’s hybrid console is to be discontinued soon.