Dude, where's my Portal?

by David Hinkle { Oct 31st 2007 at 6:00PM }

We don't know where this rumor came from, but there have been whisperings of a version of Valve's cake-pushing (it's a lie, we hear), environmental puzzlefest involving some kind of weird gun making its way onto the Wii. In true baby-punching* fashion, Valve has shot down rumors of the title's release on the Wii, as rep Doug Lombardi stated that it's "an extremely interesting idea, but there's nothing in product."

Of course, as with most of these gaming rumors, it just won't be taken out back and shot like a certain yellow dog. Doug added "not yet, anyway," at the end of his quote there, leaving us all wondering if this could happen. And, if it did, wouldn't it be the perfect Wii Ware download?

*Nobody at Valve punched a baby, to our knowledge. What they do on their own time is their business.

Tags: half-life-2, portal, valve

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

David W. @ Oct 31st 2007 6:12PM

I dunno...I have trouble with quick movements on the wii...which is important to play portal...

Mr Khan @ Oct 31st 2007 6:23PM

Good, a genius game on a genius console, a good marriage

Plus it would give me a chance to play this game, considering my PC's inability to play even the things for which it meets the recommended requirements

Just don't invest in a Dell, ever

KirbyMeister @ Oct 31st 2007 6:41PM

Wii Ware title? Never gonna happen. The .gcf for Portal's content alone (not counting Source engine, or language .gcf's) is 1GB.

As a retail release, possible... but Portal's too short to stand as a separate release unless sold at the $20 it costs to buy it from Steam. Not to mention it's retail release was part of Orange Box, which actually is 2 discs... Don't know if they split it for the 360/PS3 release or if they somehow managed to get it to fit on the 9.4GB a DL DVD can store, however.

Not to mention the whole minor detail of the Wii's GPU not being able to handle Source engine. Not being able to handle Source, you say? I'm not sure either way but I doubt it can. If it could it would be proof positive that the Wii can do good graphics.

Shooting portals with a wiimote, however, would be fun.

Tyler @ Oct 31st 2007 8:00PM

@3

They ported Half-Life 2 to the X-Box, with a slight downgrade, Portal should be... forgive me... "cake."

Would be an awesome deal, though. Would satisfy both puzzle and FPS fans.

Mark Ross @ Oct 31st 2007 8:02PM

Meh. Shooting the portals is really not the thrust of the gameplay aside from pure positioning (except in a few circumstances), and I don't really seeing it being more "fun" with the Wiimote/zapper.

Freakin' awesome game though, and it should be played by as many people as possible. I'd re-buy it on the Wii!

James @ Oct 31st 2007 8:22PM

Hrm, I have a few "play Source game X with wiimote" mods; I wonder if somebody's made one for Portal yet?

Timerider @ Oct 31st 2007 9:40PM

Portal for Wii would be fun, but I already bought it for my 360. Wii version might actually be easier to control.

the cake is a lie...

Eric Cranston @ Nov 1st 2007 4:20AM

The cake was wonderful. Me and companion cube had a great party.

Blast Processing Megadrive @ Nov 1st 2007 4:47AM

@KirbyMeister:
The only reason Orange Box PC is on two discs is because they're both single-layered DVDs. They didn't want to risk shipping it on a dual-layer disc and someone buys it and unable to install it due to having an older DVD drive. With 360 and Wii, though, every drive on the systems will support dual-layered disc, hence why Orange Box 360 was on a single disc.