Portal would run quite well on Wii. The primary mechanic is maintaining velocity with respect to the relative planes of portal entrances/exits, and the implications of being able to teleport and change the axis of your velocity or that of an object or projectile in a standard gravity. As brilliant and profound as this is in a design sense, it boils down to three quick calculations.

1. Replace the "location" value of the player with the location of the destination portal.

2. Compare the plane angle of the surfaces that the entry/exit portals are embedded in to derive a value for axial rotation.

3. Transform the "velocity" value of the player by the axial rotation.

None of this is really performance intensive. Now, drawing the view through the portals is a slightly more demanding trick, but the Wii is more than capable - see for example the jumbotron display in the Pokemon stadium stages in Melee and Brawl, which will frequently display itself nested at least twice at a solid 60fps.

tl;dr - Portal doesn't have enough in-game objects to really slow down the Wii, and its portals are accomplished with straightforward math that is completely within Wii's capabilities.

You can only move in one direction and aim with two sticks... it's the way it works, you can't move left and aim right, with out a camera swing that usually results in distorting your field of vision...

GundamGuy0

I think what you're trying to say is that you can't aim and turn independently with twin sticks, which is true.

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Nintendo is more succesful in the industry then Sony has ever been..

PS3Gamez

Not even close. Sony's game segment has never approached Nintendo's current level of profitability. Even when they were the market leader Nintendo was able to match or beat them in profits.

But now? Nintendo is shattering all game industry records for financial success. No-one else in the industry has ever been so successful, period.

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I dont think that's why the PS3 will dominate just because of their leadership... after all, it's not like Ninty and MS are lead by high school drop outs.

LibertySaint

Bill Gates didn't drop out of high school, he dropped out of HARVARD.

This is a really weak reason to bash the Wii. Yeah, the sensor bar must be in the remote's line of sight to use the pointing function. Okay? The other consoles don't have freehand pointer capability. You can get expensive gyroscopic presentation mice, but their pointer capability can't compete in accuracy in responsiveness without the IR triangulation.

The IR is also necessary as a calibration/origin point for MotionPlus' "1:1". A gyroscope and accelerometer can in tandem track movement, but without knowing the initial position of the remote this information is useless.

Yes, the tech has limits. It's consumer-grade, after all. To do substantively better at this point would require the remote hardware to cost closer to $250 than $50.

Maybe you don't want to use pointing and motion controls at all - that's certainly a reason to dislike the Wii. But the pointing implementation is more than good enough for playing games with.

It's not that the remote's design can't be criticized - one can certainly argue, for example, that they should have included the MotionPlus tech from the get-go... but the pointing function? No, it's not perfect - but as far as consumer products go, it is the best in the world at what it does.

I would buy Excite Truck but not for $50 it more of a $20-$30 game.

HarlockJC

I happen to love Excite Truck to death so I have a different perception of its value, but that's not really the point. The point is that it's still $50 and still on the shelf. I don't think Nintendo has too much to worry about when it comes to losing sales from customers who can't find Mario Kart right away - maybe a few people will give up because they can't find it, but how many of them will NEVER buy the game? Very few, I think. Mario Kart will have retail visibility for years and years, people who want it are going to buy it eventually.

I don't see that. In the case of Mario Kart sooner or latter the demand for the game will go down. If Nintendo does not get copies out there now it will be too late by the time they do.

HarlockJC

Not really. That's one of the dark majicks that Nintendo has uncovered - how to market and sell games so that they just keep on selling. Eventually people will stop buying Mario Kart Wii, but based on the sales performance of Nintendo software in this generation, we're talking about three or four years of steady sales. That's why Zelda and Excite Truck are still $50 - because they still sell well enough at that price to this day.

E3 was disappointing for people who wanted new core titles from Nintendo. But don't think for a second that they aren't going to dominate holiday sales this year - they'll just be doing it with mostly catalog titles - Mario Galaxy, SSBB, Zelda: TP, Mario Kart - instead of new releases.

no, the other 12 million don't buy games because they bought it because it's a fad mistervengeance

That's odd, because Wii has sold more software faster than any other system in history. It its first 18 months it sold more 3rd party software than the PS2, and more total software than Xbox 360 and PS3's first 18 months combined, not even counting Wii Play.