A walled garden cuts a platform it doesn't like, news at 11.
I don't even like Twitter, but this is yet another reason I stick to PC gaming.
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.
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.
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.
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.