Diablo III took 9 months to port to Nintendo Switch

[DonFerrari]

routsounmanman said:

DonFerrari said:

1st Because it is a free forum

2nd because I care about gaming

3rd where is the lack of logic? Or you will claim there aren't people who pretend porting is something very simple and almost resource free so not porting a game to Switch is either a dumb decision or hate on the platform?

This thread and others talking on porting shows that it have a considerable cost and devs/publisher decide to take it just when they see the ROI makes sense.

But please teach me logic, starting without trying to use personal attacks.

1) You have shown time and time again that you have an agenda against Nintendo, or against Nintendo fans, at least.

2) We simply cannot tell if the porting was quick or easy, solely due to the fact that we don't have enough information. If 100 people worked 24/7 for 9 months, true it was a hard port. On the other hand, if a handful developers were working on it, ~10, we can safely say that it was a normal task, even an easy one. 

Either way, we cannot tell with the information at hand. Yet you come again, and resort to blaming the platform, while you know that ought to annoy people. Then, you play the victim card. 

1) That is just your googles that see only what you want to see.

2) 10 people working on it from blizzard side. More people under contract (which wouldn't make sense if it is less than blizzard folks) so the 30 people working 9 months is a good amount of people, doesn't make it easy.

A good game can be made with 100 people over 3 years so this port taking 1/3 of time and 1/3 the size of team (or additional 10% cost) just to port doesn't make it something mundane that can be just effortless.

I blamed the platform? Nope. Just see my conversation with KLXVER. If you didn't rush to defend Switch and do personal attacks you perhaps would see it.

My point is just that Switch isn't really as easy to port as someone just pressing a button with almost no resources needed, so ports that don't go to Switch either are because they would be severely cut down or the ROI wasn't attractive, simple as that. No hate for Switch or Nintendo. I probably have more Nintendo games than you have playstation.