Diablo III took 9 months to port to Nintendo Switch

[DonFerrari]

routsounmanman said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

Oh, I completely agree on that, and it should be apparent to anyone with an ounce of programming skills. However, that's a far cry from your initial post. 

And you have no basis on your rationale on the cost and effort of this port. You're simply guessing at this point (as we all are, due to the lack of info, of course).

Also, wanna bet how many vgchartz-ers would agree with me on you having an agenda against Nintendo? 

That is because you tried to extract much more than what was said and portray it as attack to Switch instead of considering the whole context of this discussion in several threads of VGC.

About many or even all of VG members agreeing I have an agenda against Nintendo I couldn't care less, they don't read my mind or play with me to see what I like to play.  Me being vocal against mistakes of MS or Nintendo doesn't make it an agenda and me antagonizing people that are defend these companies to the death also doesn't put an anti-MS or anti-Nintendo agenda. Also I have no qualms with anyone pointing that I favor Sony.

The anti-Nintendo you see in me is just because I refuse to put Nintendo as some kind of god and bend to their design philosophy "art direction better than realism", "gameplay better than story" and other that usually are put as excuses for Nintendo putting less resources to develop a game than their competitors. If Nintendo fanbase loves that philosophy great, but pushing that as Nintendo is better than anyone else for me don't stick. Same with people that say Switch is a great machine and have all they want and hybrid is a nice thing to have, I have no problem with that but I have a lot of problems with people that pretend Switch just have the positives of portability and table console without any negatives (or flip what Switch should be considered depending on the discussion and apologize for the shortcomings saying Switch is also something else).

The biggest issue people seem to do on Nintendo criticism I do is that when I say a lot of fan or some of the fanbase have that behavior they take it personal or as saying all of the fans do it and go on very high defenses (just as you did) with making myself having an agenda on their mind a valid reason for all their attacks. Funny enough me "having an agenda" don't do personal attacks, call on mental skills, etc while these so moderate fans go for it at first notice.