Citing a case of ‘lost in translation’ Valve have just issued a statement regarding the earlier news that the PS3 version of Portal 2 will support Move.
The original story came from an interview with Chet Faliszek on the German PlayStation blog and when the text was translated in to English someone, somewhere, got a bit confused. Valve have sent an email out which reads:
There’s a story making the rounds regarding Portal 2 support for PS3 Move.
Unfortunately this quote was “lost in translation” — Portal 2 does not include support for Sony’s motion controller.
A shame, especially when the PC version will have support for motion control. Eurogamer are claiming that no mistranslation occurred and I’ve just run the text through Google Translate and it reads:
But as a small remedial measures for it’s PS3 exclusive cloud storage stands, free code for PC and Playstation-Move full support.
A little later on Chet says Move is ‘completely new’ to Valve and not fully implemented yet.
Source: Eurogamer
gernboes
I speak german and just had a look at the original interview. The cited passage indeed says what was translated here. there is certainly no mistranslation there. but right in the next sentence he says that move is a completely new experience(?) for them and thus not yet fully integrated. whatever that means
Carl
Just means they’ve not used it before, hence why it’s not finished yet. They’re still experimenting.
gernboes
so far i can follow too. but what that means in regards if there will be move support or not, thats what i have no clue about
RadicalMave07
the next translation will be that there is kinect support.
icuyesido
I thought that would have been a great Move title and a huge Move selling point. Was looking forward to playing using it.
kivi95
Boom now i changed my mind,Socom 4 will get my money in April. Pitty really because move would have worked great with Portal 2.
colmshan1990
Seems strange.
Maybe it’s being considered for DLC and that’s where confusion occurred?
MegaBonez
How dreadfully confusing and annoying!
Kenny
What? It seems like they want to announce it themselves… I hope they bring an update to it or something to support move, cause it makes alot of sense.
Jim H [Teabags]
Ack, was really exciting to exercise my motion controller a wee bit more. It does make sense though; Portal 2 will require sudden, precise movements, something which Move can’t offer at this stage.
Carl
Because dual analogue is much quicker and more precise…
kevatron400
I disagree actually, I think that’s exactly Move’s strengths, quick and precise.
mcphatty
Hmm, can’t trust translators really, that one got the grammar wrong in your example so could have stuffed a ‘not’ or ‘isn’t’ by mistake too?
Charmed_Fanatic
haha no now, but confirmed later on ;)