Project cars officially cancelled for wii u.

Mmm_fish_tacos · Jul 21, 2015, 02:34 PM

Slightly Mad Studios has confirmed to Nintendo Life that the Wii U version of Project CARS has been cancelled.
The status of the game had been thrown into doubt by recent developer comments which suggested that the team was experiencing problems porting the incredibly ambitious racer to Nintendo's system. This followed news that the Wii U version would launch later than its siblings.
Studio head Ian Bell then clarified the situation by stating that Project CARS on Wii U was always a "maybe", and that the release was not part of the original crowdfunding pitch. He did, however, end with a statement which suggested that the team would continue to work on the version, but were waiting to see if E3 would bring any hardware announcements from Nintendo - which, as we all know, didn't come.
With E3 now a distant memory, we approached Bell regarding the status of Project CARS on Wii U and received this reply:
The official line is that we're awaiting an announcement from Nintendo on new hardware. As of now pCARS is simply too much for the Wii U.
Project CARS is available now on PS4, Xbox One and PC, and has been a critical and commercial success. The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions were dropped midway through development.
Slightly Mad Studios has recently confirmed that a sequel is now in development.

Mmm_fish_tacos · Jul 21, 2015, 02:36 PM

We knew it was coming.

Max King of the Wild · Jul 21, 2015, 02:39 PM

Sounds like they are expecting nx to be a home console.

Aura7541 · Jul 21, 2015, 02:42 PM

And finally, it has been put to rest.

Legend · Jul 21, 2015, 02:44 PM

I'm shocked!

Dr. Pezus · Jul 21, 2015, 02:53 PM

Obviously. Wouldn't sell on it anyway

kitler53 · Jul 21, 2015, 06:31 PM

the-pi-guy · Jul 21, 2015, 06:32 PM

Quote from: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 21, 2015, 02:36 PMWe knew it was coming.

Pretty sure you misread the title.
Pretty clearly says that it won't be coming(in different words albeit).

BasilZero · Jul 21, 2015, 10:00 PM

QuoteThe official line is that we're awaiting an announcement from Nintendo on new hardware

Might as well not wait/plan to release it for the next Nintendo system - I highly doubt anyone was gonna buy it for the WiiU and I doubt anyone is gonna bother buying it a year or so later when competitor systems/platforms will have the same game for practically half the price.

I'm personally gonna get it for Steam!

Kerotan · Jul 22, 2015, 01:22 AM

What a surprise, said nobody ever!

Right call imo, and ubisoft should have pulled the plug early on for watch dogs. Highly doubt they made back their investment.

This would have run like shame on the wii so an already unlikely target audience was going to be even more put off.