Wii U owners , not including ones who only own one or two games or who only play Splatoon, now that Fast Racing Neo is out do you care that we missed Project Cars?

[midrange]

Rogerioandrade said:

midrange said:

They did give a formal statement in the end. They said that the game was running at 22 fps and that releasing it would essentially be suicide, since the money it would take to release it costs more than simply cutting it. They also said that they wouldn't recover the money if they had to optimize it.

In terms of funding, the game was mainly funded by pc owners. Those who lost out were in the minority that contributed for last gen. But they knew full well that they could lose that money (this is the nature of crowdfunding)

Is that it? Then why the intention of purchasing for the Wiiu were so much higher than for other devices - including PC? It doesn´t make much sense, but still.... they promised to develop it for the WiiU and they didn´t accomplished what they promised. One thing is not accomplish something for lacking of funds, another thing is having more than enough funds for what they were proposing to do and do something different that diverges from their initial promises.

I still think that was very unprofessional.

Intention and actual desire to purchase are 2 different things. Most wii u owners intended to buy the game, but in reality, this game would have suffered worse sales than an actual known franchise on the wii u (Need for speed: Most wanted U). This is unfortunately how third parties end up working out on the wii u.

What would you have done?

Came out and told the truth (the costs were becoming too much, had to stop development)

Released a broken game at 22fps and hope there are idiots out there

Spend a lot more money to have a version that will undoubtably bomb because of classic third party wii u sales.

They're not a charity. This is their job and if they feel they are going to lose money, then it makes sense that they should cut development and move on. Their choice in telling the truth was professional because most other companies would just release the broken mess and hope there are idiots that will buy it