Diablo III took 9 months to port to Nintendo Switch

[DonFerrari]

zorg1000 said:

DonFerrari said:

30 people over 9 months is plenty, enough to even make some good games. I wouldn't call that small or easy when they are porting something finished. Comparing it to the full development isn't doing you a favor.

yeah a lot of credibility, Sony would expend a lot of money to leave a single platform that wasn't even released yet out even when the game itself couldn't run on Switch.

Yeah automatic ports, easy stuff, always throwed here in VGC by people that don't do them.

Games made with current engines for current consoles wouldn't really need much effort on up porting. Most we have seem have been like X1X and PS4Pro and those didn't took massive time.

You could I don't know, just read the threads and how pissed some Nintendo fans got over not getting ports and pointing how easy and unexpensive it  is to make ports for switch. But if you don't get hyperbole my bad.

Or you could i dont know, make logical arguments.

I just showed they ported it to Switch quicker than they did to PS4 so your whole argument acting like 9 months isnt a timely manner gets thrown out the window.

Sure, let's just pretend I didn't got a logical argument discussion just a short while ago here.

Where did I say it isn't timely manner? 30 people earning about 85k a year would make us have about 2M USD to port the game. That is a cost that shows it isn't easy or super cheap to port and that is all that matter. Let's say PS4 took aditional 3 months and 10 people to port or  3.2M to get ported. Do you think Diablo 3 with sell on Switch 66% of what sold on PS4?

PS4 is "easy" to port, Switch is also called "easy" to port, same for X1. Still none of them are pennies to do.