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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.

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Not surprising one bit, but still disappointing, I guess. I wasn't going to get it, but the more Wii U games the better. I feel bad for the Wii U owners who supported their crowdfund :l



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...is anybody seriously shocked about this?



Too bad really for the wasted resources. Wii U needs every game it gets, just so many droughts.



It's a shame but if it was dropped for 360 and PS3 I'm not surprised.
But it did look very good from the early videos that I had watched, would have most likely picked this one up.



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I remember that a while ago (maybe a year or two) they said it was running fine on Wii U.



bet: lost

The 3 people on earth who actually believed it was coming on the Wii U will be pissed once they hear this news



It's official, finally.

Now I wonder when did they stop working on it: one month ago (before E3)? Two? Six?



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not a surprise. The WiiU has weak hardware, they simply couldnt make the game run on it.



bananaking21 said:
not a surprise. The WiiU has weak hardware, they simply couldnt make the game run on it.

2 years ago WiiU was able to run latest build of PC without problems, according to their PR bullshit.