The lies of Slightly Mad (Project Cars) Head of the studio confess that they were overpromising

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padib said:

Arcturus said:

Where does this misconception keep coming from? Ian Bell stated that 95% of the funding was raised before any console versions were annouced.

Direct quote from Ian Bell (SMS's CEO):
"We started the project as a Free to Play PC racing game. That's where more than 95% of the funding was raised. It later (by the choice of the backers) changed to a standard console release on last gen. This then changed (by decision of the backers) to a standard console release on next gen systems."

It was from something like two years ago, they released a graph showing the interest in the game by console preference from their sponsors. The WiiU was like at 50%, but it is from very long ago and I don't have the source on hand, I will dig it up.

interest is NOT the same as funding. Even then those people were supposed to get money and not a Wii U version in particular