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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 - AUTOMATON WEST

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Internal forums are older than Slack. What’s so novel about Nintendo’s approach?
- They can "like" posts, which I found pretty novel in a business environment. It lets the employees vote on what's important.
  
  Slack and Teams have emoticons for reactions which serve the same purpose.
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.
It was Miiverse.
All that sharing of friend codes must have been difficult.
Every company I've worked at for at least the last decade or so has an internal social media thing of varying quality.
Facebook even wraps up its own product for internal use.
Admittedly engineering always generally ignores it and we just use slack
Miitomo?
Wasn't this what Salesforce was supposed to be?
- Salesforce is (unsurprisingly) tailored towards sales teams, not necessarily dev teams. They've been branching out into more of a "full business solution" but the dev stuff isn't really a strong competitor with the bigger names like Atlassian.
  Slack (which, admittedly, was acquired by Salesforce) is probably the closest comparison to this.
  
  Jira is from the people of Atlassian??

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