Uh.
yes.

Me.

Nope, this PC and 360 owner is rather happy with Portal and the Orange Box on the PC.

i want to play portal on the wii.

it's not like the game is heavily reliant on amazing graphics. a wii port would be pretty much a perfect fit, considering how many people wanted more portal.

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."

@ Johnny Blaze:

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.

Wii is not the be all, end all console for shooters. Sorry guys. Just because one FPS made it work (Metroid) doesn't mean they all suddenly belong on Wii. It'd likely just be a shoddy port anyway, but Wii owners should be used to that by now.

Yeah, no thanks. Wii ports suck, I'll only get excited over quality original Wii stuff from here on out.

I’d buy this in a second. It would make a perfect budget title. When I played it on my brother’s computer (which didn’t take long; it’s a short game), I was thinking the whole time how great it would be on the Wii, if only because its simple controls could map really well to the wii remote.

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.

Screw Portal for the Wii, I'm still waiting for They Hunger for the DS.
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.

"more levels = EXCLUSIVE WII EDITION OMG = $Profit$ "

this equation is as true as my love for companion cube.



i love companion cube.

To all the losers saying "It would make a perfect budget title", it already IS a budget title at 20$ for PC!

Starcraft II not coming to Wii. One could come up with more examples.

This is a no-brainer. Any high-powered game will not be coming to Wii. If it does, then it's the exception. Why do developers feel they have to point out the obvious?

Just play it on a real system, aPC or XBOX 360!

If Portal came to WiiWare, I'd buy it in a New York Minute. Portal is rapidly becoming one of my favourite games OF ALL TIME. It's fantastically executed and very well paced, with great puzzles and an interesting story.

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.

pwnt

I don't see why Valve would dirty their hands on a platform that created Anubis II and Monster Truck 4X4.

@ bohb:

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.

I'm sure a lot of casual and hardcore gamer would love and enjoy a Wii Portal. It'd be a win win. Unique game on a unique console with unique controls.

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

Hmm, it seems like I've read about Gabe and his Wii before, I guess it slipped my mind. I guess with an attitude like that, though, why haven't we heard any Wii plans from Valve?