I don't know what it is with you people. You think any game that involves aiming, shooting, swinging, shuffling, kicking, punching, poking, or pulling would be great on the Wii. So when rumors spread across the Internet that Portal might be ported to Nintendo's console, ya'll went wild.
Sorry guys -- right now, it's a no go.
"It's an extremely interesting idea," Valve's Doug Lombardi told CVG, "but there's nothing in product -- not yet, anyway."
CVG goes on to point out that Lombardi didn't outright deny it, leaving this open for Nintendo fans to dream about. There's no reason Valve couldn't get the Source Engine up and running on the Wii, but do they really have to? Is there anyone out there who really wants to play Portal that doesn't have a PC or another next-gen console?
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5:48 PM on 10.30.2007
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Plus, aiming with a Wiimote isn't really any cooler than using a mouse.
yes.
I agree, there do seem to be an awful lot of "X isn't coming to Wii" articles around, it seems like people just start these rumours for the fun of it.
Wasn't there an Assassin's Creed one just a couple of days ago?
I think the reason why people want these games is because they are tired of the half ass shit that is being put on the wii from third parties. Zach and wiki will sale great from capcom, but it is Capcom we are talking about they are known for putting hits out.
As a person who is on a budget and can only afford a Wii for right now. I see what developers are doing for PC, 360, PS3. WHy can't the wii get some love too. I am jealous that people (developers) are not taking it that serious or still have some love hate relationship with Nintendo they can't get over.. I think Reggie makes a valid point about Bishock how he would want people to take that chance on them to show those games can succeed on the Wii without having urber graphics...
Why can't a Bioshock or Portal be on the wii.. The Fanbase is there regardless of what perception you have with the console..
more levels = EXCLUSIVE WII EDITION OMG = $Profit$
"so what we do is put those profits back into the profit cycle, and you know what that means, stan? MORE PROFITS."
I can be sympathetic to your budget concerns, but at the same time, there's almost no excuse right now. The Xbox 360 is only slightly more expensive than a Wii right now. Yeah, a lot of units of the Wii have been moved, but in general, they're not being purchased by the kind of gamers who want to buy BioShock or Assassin's Creed.
That I only buy a 360 because it only has that certain type of games I like and Nintendo only has certain fun titles I like..
Why can't a console have best of both worlds?
Mac User, with an old comp (a comparable PC from when i bought mine prolly wouldn't run it either) and a Wii owner.
HOWEVER, I think most of these rumors are starting because people want to put the demand out there and get people ionterested.... capcom at one point denied the plans to bring okami to the wii.... a couple of months later they had an announcement...
the interest is there and after playing it on the OB a full fledged portal game is long overdue
it could work
think about it:
move with the analog stick
look with the pointer
grab with C
jump with Z
shoot blue portal with A
shoot orange portal with B
Those are the only controls needed; you wouldn’t need to complicate anything by bringing the d-pad into play, and with any of the remaining four buttons, you could pick one (most likely +) to pause and another to bring up the controller diagram (most likely -, although with the simple control scheme, it wouldn’t be very neccesary).
seriously though, this is a fantastic game, and if they brought it to Wii at a budget price ($20), i’d scoop that up in a hot minute.
but i do have to admit that you're right; a lot of people (myself included) think that anything that can work on the wii, should be on the wii. it's sort of a silly way of think, i know, and the game wouldn'y benfit at all from having ppointer functionality, but what excites me is that it's one of only a few games where the controls are so simple that they could be mapped to the wii without utilizing all those hard to reach buttons or cutting out commands altogether.
Why did Valve create a DS version of the Gold Source engine when they haven't announced anything for it yet?
The thing is, ok let the Wii owners get Portal. For as much as I love Portal (and I really do, I play it every week), I just don't see me buying the game alone.
When Half-Life 2 came out, you would get HL2 as the singleplayer part and Counter-Strike Source as the multiplayer part.
With the Orange Box you get HL2: Ep1 and Ep2 as the singleplayer part, Team Fortress 2 as the multiplayer part and Portal as a addition to the HL2 Episodes, a side-story.
@robotplague: So what about Resident Evil 4 or Godfather? Or Twilight Princess for that matter. Or Super Paper Mario? All of these games are ports (Super Paper Mario was originally going to be a Gamecube game) and all were very good. Ok, I've not actually played Resi 4 Wii, but I've heard it's an awesome port. I'm pretty sure that if done right then Portal could well be a really good port. It's just a matter of whether one is actually made (not very likely by the looks of things)
this equation is as true as my love for companion cube.
i love companion cube.
P.S. I wish I knew how to tell if it'd run on my laptop...
- “The happy story is the Wii. I’m betting that by Christmas of next year, the Wii has a larger installed base than the 360. Other people think I’m crazy. I really like everything that Nintendo is doing.“
and
- "I think we’ll bring them (referring to outsourcing PS3 projects) in house more for licensees issues than our own. Just for our own priorities, that puts the Wii at a much higher priority at understanding that. I think the Wii represents more of a challenge because of its input. You can think of the Xbox 360 as pretty much a PC and a PlayStation as kind of a PC. The Wii gives you a bunch of problems that don’t fit into that model. You can’t think of it as graphics, CPU, texture bandwith scaling, you have to think of it as more fundamentally, and I think it’s more valuable. I think it’s more interesting than just graphics chip – CPU combination.The fact that we don’t have anything in development on it even though it represents big opportunities as a whole, it’s an obvious hole in our strategy. "
- "It's the machine I have at home."
anyway, i really don't see the need of a sequel. Just leave the awesomeness rest.
I personally prefer shooters on a pad, I have used a Wii to play FPSes and I find it's pretty clumsy and inaccurate, but thats my opinion.
Most Wii users aren't interested in games like portal - they are interested in games like Wii Fit and Warioware. Of course there are members of the hardcore set that have purchased Wiis (I am about to buy one for my girlfriend so she can play it while I am on my 360, actually), but most of them already own another console or a PC.
However, that being said, really the only reason I'd buy it for the Wii would be to, in some way, ensure a sequel or spinoff, or at the very least to get the ASHPD in the hands of Gordon Freeman. This is one instance where I'd let my money do the talking.
Oh, ha ha, i get it; my name is luzer and i'm the only one who said it'd make a perfeft budget title and you were all like "to all the losers who say it's make a perfect budget title..." and so forth. you're funny. that's funny. that's real funny stuff right there.
but, yeah, my computer can't run portal. so, for me, it'd be the perfect budget title.
it's worse than that. those games are actually ports pf budget titles that were released in the uk on ps2... like, 3 years ago.
Valve have just come down off of their Steam cloud with an effort to get back into regular development, seeing their episodic approach didn't work.
Portal doesn't demand much in graphics as most FPS games, and its also a short game too. Both these facts play into the Wii's hands for a port. If Valve have any business sense at all, especially after the sales of Orange Box on only 360 and PC (it'll probably clean up on PS3 too), they'd get a port of Portal (or Orange Box altogether) in the works for Wii.
I reckon we'll see something from Valve in the future on Wii, as the money is there to be made. Besides that, Valve are in EA's camp, and we know EA like the sound of money. They be silly not to make more on Portal and co.
Sales of RE4 have been superb for Capcom, even though its a GC port that's previously sold well. Its this fact, that I think convinced Capcom to port Okami too