Diablo III took 9 months to port to Nintendo Switch

[Miyamotoo]

bananaking21 said:
Wow that's a lot of time. And this is for a game that was developed in 2012 with PS3/360 level of hardware in mind.

Actually its not, its normal time of porting game, development of new game today usaly is around 2-3 years with hole teams behind, ports are usualy done buy much smaller teams and they are usualy done in less than one year. PS3/360 hardware on mind dont change much beacause we talking about huge game with plenty of content.

 

HollyGamer said: 

Shiken said: 

Well considering that the game has added content, higher native resolution, and a more stable fps than those consoles (as all last gen ports do on switch), 9 months is not really a lot of time.

 

Your Switch sales prediction was a bust, accept it.  No need to grasp at staws trying to downplay the system.  You are only hurting your own image.

That's the point. Doom on Switch and Wolfstain took almost the same time. While Diablo has been here since 2012 and run easier on PS3 and Xbox 360 that is slightly weaker the Switch. 

Yeah but Diablo 3 with all DLCs has huge amount of content, we also dont know what was size of team behind port.

 

bowserthedog said: 

I believe Reggie or Miyamoto said the expected port time was 1 year on average. So 9 months isn't bad. But yeah it's going to depend on how many assets needs to be redone, team size, and the skill and experience of the team that is porting. 

No on average, they said less than one 1 year, and they are right.