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midrange on 21 July 2015
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Nuvendil said:
midrange said:

What proof is there that they lied? They said they had it running 2 years ago, they were probably referring to the alpha version they had. They said that the wii u could play the core of the game, and it can at 20 fps. If anything, the wii u got more hype out of project cars (not the other way around), since people were using project cars as an example of the wii u's techincal feats. I get that people would be annoyed with the cancellation, but at least these devs were honest and didn't bust out yet another third party flop with poor wii u performance

The thing is they had nothing but glowing praise for the Wii U until Bamco picked them up.  And then they did a 180.  And there is no way you can say you had a "blast" in a racer at 20fps and lower.  But my theory is they never had any version beyond maybe a thrown together super early alpha running on the Wii U.  No one has seen it, not even an image.  And its wasn't about trolling Wii U owners, it was about using Nintendo focused sites to get coverage.  They got more noise over them being a racer on Wii U than anything else for the longest time.  It was a brilliant way to avoid competing with the big dogs for coverage.  Awful way to treat fans.

I'm pretty sure the alpha version (or whatever they had 2 years ago) wasn't as beefy back then to make the wii u go 20 fps.

The problem with your theory of using Nintendo fans for hype lies within your very own paragraph. Namely, they had nothing to show for the wii u version.

I very highly doubt they got most of their hype from Nintendo fans when they never showed anything on the wii u. Instead, they got their hype through trailers and pictures that didn't run on the wii u. Most of my friends that were really looking forward to project cars didn't even know of a wii u version. They knew about it because they were into racing (doesn't exist on wii u btw) and liked the detail they saw. Their campaign was a racing game made with the help of racers, for racing fans (which are non-existent on wii u)