Me too, just out of curiosity. Rogue Squadron 2 and 3 on the Gamecube already look more impressive than about 95% of Wii titles.

Damn! ):

Its pretty obvious that Level-5 and Nintendo were on very good terms, and that no one could save this title because of all the legal issues surrounding it with ownership issues as rights kept changing during the crisis and studios imploding left and right.

I hate news about game cancellation why talk about games that will never get it

Trailer of the game! http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/10/13/star-wars-rogue-leaders-wii-trailer

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/13/cancelled-star-wars-rogue-squadron-wii-game-footage-found

Looks like it was really done

What's even worse about this is that because EA hold the exclusive publishing rights for Star Wars games for the next 10 years we're not going to see Nintendo 'do a Bayonetta 2' with this.

And with their conversion software (which allowed them to do Wind Waker HD in 6 months from start to finish) they could have the game done in 6 months at a very low cost.

A major pain in the arse that EA, of all publishers, have exclusive rights to all Star Wars games for 10 years.

The video's too compressed to make out the graphical enhancements their new engine brought to the games, at least to my eyes, but it's Factor 5, so I'm sure they managed to pull off some "that can't be done on Wii" stuff. Hell, they pulled off light scattering, self-shadowing, and normal mapping on the freaking Gamecube.

I still hold out a foolish hope that this ROM will be leaked, like with Starfox 2.

It is actually sad and stupid!!! WHY not give it to the gamers???? It would have sold well on Wii!!

Maybe on WiiU?! YES!!!!

Have you read the article? Probably Nintendo was one of the "companies". But once LucasArts went bancrupt there appeared many difficulties for this game release, particularly license rights.

Nintendo funded many "unusual" games for the Wii, even when it peaked sales, like Sin&Punishment, Disaster:Day of Crisis, Pandoras Tower, The Last Story,  Xenoblade,  and so on. They do the same for Wii U, for example Bayonetta 1+2 or Devils Third. This Star Wars game appears to be exact the kind of game they would had like to fund if it has been possible. 

Multiple companies stepped in to help out with publishing, but financial hardship, legal snafus, and budgetary restrictions ultimately led to the project's final cancellation.

It's almost certainly not going to happen, sadly. EA now has the rights to Star Wars, and they hate Nintendo.

However, it may get leaked, as the unreleased Starfox 2 on SNES was.