When we should start seeing Nintendo's combined development really take effect?

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Nem said:

I wish people understood the difference in resources necessary to make a 3DS game and an HD game.

Needless to say, it's not a 1 to 1 ratio.

HD games take at least 2 years to develop. Nowadays it's creeping up to 3. Nintendo is trying to get alot of games out by porting the Wii U library, but it's starting to lose steam.
We'll see if they got anything at E3.

But, i do think that the Switch is a bit barren atm for people who owned a Wii U at least or want fresh new experiences.

I figure that pokemon will make a huge difference if it's a mainline game though.

Exactly, we arent going to get 3DS+Wii U output but it will be a good deal better than each of those got individually and already is in the same timeframe.

It honestly wouldnt surprise me if these Wii U ports with added content require a similar amount of resources as an average sized 3DS game.