Nintendo Will Stop Letting Players Post Switch Screenshots on X

Nintendo will no longer allow people to upload screenshots and recordings directly from its Switch Album on X (formerly Twitter) in a seemingly rebellious move against the platform's pricing policies.

In a post on X this Thursday, Nintendo announced that will soon stop integration of all game content-sharing features, including directly posting friend requests, on the platform by June 10.

It is worth noting that the screen record share feature is still available on Facebook and other platforms partnered with Nintendo.

This indicates that the departure may be connected to X's minimum $42,000 bill for companies to use the platform's API to directly share content from third-party sites.

The prices reportedly go up to $125,000 to $210,000 per month for bigger companies using the tool.

Nintendo's statement did not indicate whether the game publisher is willing to reenter negotiations with X regarding its API fees.

X Loses Direct Screen-Sharing Access to Major Consoles

With Nintendo Switch terminating its screen-sharing features on X, the platform has finally lost direct game content-sharing access to all three major gaming consoles.

Microsoft first left the platform in May last year, bringing Xbox along, after owner Elon Musk accused the company of abusing then-Twitter's API to collect massive amounts of data from users.

PlayStation later followed Microsoft's steps in November, stating that it would instead focus game content sharing on YouTube or Switch.

X Builds More Paywalls Amid Revenue Drop

It is worth noting that other social platforms have started monetizing their API access more over the past year.

Reddit has been replacing all free third-party APIs with its paywalled tools, while Meta started implementing the same strategy on Facebook.

However, the fee requirement for the in-house accessibility tools was not as expensive as X's current prices.

It does not help that X has been criticized multiple times in the past for putting more content and features behind paid subscriptions under Musk's leadership.

Just recently, Musk hinted at possibilities that even posting on the platform would require monthly paid membership soon as X pushes its paid services to users amid lower revenues from ads.

It can be remembered that many big brands have started leaving the platform since Musk took over in late 2022 following the increase of hate speech and Nazi posts on the platform.

Since then, X's ad revenue has been reported to be at a steep downfall as its leadership scrambles to open other profit avenues.