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.
In my experienced, it’s never used in a voting manner, it’s mostly to acknowledge and smiley faces (usually always from the same people). Serving the same propose isn’t the same as being tailored for that purpose. For instance, I don’t recall being able to order posts by amount of emoticons on teams although I don’t know if you can do this with Nintendo’s version, I’m just assuming. The actual bulletin part of teams where you can post things gets barely any use in my experience.
Tbh I’m not a big fan of teams in general. I don’t have much experience with slack though.
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