Diablo III took 9 months to port to Nintendo Switch

[Train wreck]

Mnementh said:

trent44 said:

https://kotaku.com/the-diablo-iii-switch-port-took-nine-months-1828400479

Just so people have an idea as to just how long it takes to port a big game to Nintendo Switch.

This also means a lot of late ports coming to Nintendo Switch this fall/next year probably weren't even started being worked on until sometime after December 2017...

"Stilwell said that a team of “eight or nine” Blizzard staffers collaborated with Iron Galaxy, the studio that helped bring Skyrim to Switch last year."

So while hundreds developed the original game for years, ten people develop the port for months. This is why I always say porting takes so few resources it is nearly neglectable.

Iron galaxy has 130 employees as of 2016.  We don't know how many people they used for the port but its that number + 9 Blizzard developers, so its well more than 10 unless Iron Galaxy had one person working on the game with blizzard.