Diablo III took 9 months to port to Nintendo Switch

[Mr Puggsly]

Shiken said:

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.

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.

 

A few ports on Switch haven't had more stable performance. Probably because they tend to scale back 8th gen ports as opposed to improving 7th gen ports. Payday 2 and LA Noire come to mind.

With Diablo III, it will be a scaled back port of the X1/PS4 edition. They aren't improving the resolution and performance of the 7th gen versions for Switch, instead they will scale back the 8th gen versions for Switch.

9 months isn't unreasonable due to this being their first project on the platform and optimization for the hardware. The added content likely isn't much. Its also unlikely they put a big team/resources on this project.