Nintendo Network
, commonly abbreviated as Nintendo SDD, was formerly known as Nintendo Network Business &amp; Development (NBD), Nintendo Network Service Development (NSD), and Nintendo Special Planning &amp; Development (SPD), was a Japanese division located in the Nintendo Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan, until it moved to the Nintendo Development Center, also in Kyoto. The division consisted of a single development team that focused on software and peripheral development. SDD was composed of two development departments with different duties: the Network Development &amp; Operations Department, which handled Nintendo Network service programming, in cooperation with Nintendo Network Service Database, and the Environment Development Department, which developed Software Development Kits (SDKs), among other technologies.