Nintendo had its own internal “social media” to streamline the massive workload during Tears of the Kingdom’s development
Nintendo had its own internal “social media” to streamline the massive workload during Tears of the Kingdom’s development
Nintendo sheds light on internal infrastructure used for the development of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
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So to make development faster and make sure they didn't waste time, they spent their time reinventing slack/teams/SharePoint/etc.
It sounds like if Nintendo were a person, they'd have ADHD. This also explains how for every generation, their flagship console looks like a completely new thing. They're just getting understimulated and bored.
Looking at the slides in the original Japanese source, this tooling also has a whole lot of analysis options and can pull/push game data/positioning both to and from a real Switch or something along those lines. Integrating that much custom features into an off-the-shelf tool would probably take just as long.