Thank you, Andy Tudor.

I hope this guy can share his keen abilities with the WiiU with other developers.

If Wii U user base grows to a decent size, it should get some well deserved sales. Mario Kart shouldn't compete directly with it, as it's purely arcade, while Project CARS should be a "simcade" closer to a sim than to an arcade racer (basically it should offer some optional driving simplifications on top of a quite faithful simulation, this option is often offered also in the beginner modes of even purer sims *), and with users contributions possibly enhancing its sim aspects more than arcade ones. So the problem won't be Mario's competition, but if it will have enough users that like not only arcade racers, but also more or less faithful racing sims.

* For example, even the very unforgiving GPL offers some beginner modes, with lower engine power, shorter races and damage disabled.

You mean a version of a (presumably) good game in a good genre, using the hardware to its fullest, with all features included, released, announced and promoted at the same time and way as the other versions is 3rd party done right on a Nintendo platform?

Yes, I think that might be 3rd party done right. If only COD, Batman and others could get the same respect.

And yet it was still unforgiving . It was a challenge even with the lower engine power because there was no downforce on the game (as it should be). I remember my father, a huge, huge, hugeee GP2 fan/racer, which won a lot of GP2 competitions being completely frustrated in the first months with GPL .

OT - Project CARS has the potential to be a very competent sim on the Wii U. The problem is, does the console have a large enough sim-enthusiast base to attract sales to the Wii U. Personally, while having a Wii U myself and loving the system a lot, I'm getting Project Cars on PC, unless there's some very distinguishing features on the Wii U version that justify it's purchase.

wiiu version will not have any precision acceleration or braking due to digital controls that is unless you map them to one of the sticks

My question to you is why do you care so much about how much it will sell or not on the Wii U?

To prove that the assumption of 3rd party games selling poorly on the Wii U due to being

• late
• "lazy"
• expensive or poor value

are completely false.

Wow @ your dad! 
About GPL: the only car with which I manage to get some results is the Brabham, although right now the biggest problem for me to start again playing it is overcoming some incompatibilities, I hope they were mostly due to XP not getting along well with my HW and that Win 7 solve at least part of them, making crashes less frequent.

About the user base it looks like we agree on the main obstacle the Wii U version will have to overcome. Also, while, having tried it on my smartphone, I prefer tilt detection to sticks for wheel simulation, for a true sim fan nothing can beat a true wheel, with pedals too, so Wii U's gamepad could be a bigger selling point for non hardcore sim fans, but for the most dedicated ones it will be a bonus feature only if the devs find a way to make it a worthy complement to true wheel and pedals, and this in turn could be implemented if the audience is predicted to be large enough to justify the additional dev cost. It looks like a vicious and not virtuous circle. But hey, maybe those that want more than just arcade drivers, but are not enough into racing sims to buy a wheel, could find the Wii U tablet quite comfortable and precise, it could also be a case in which being quite large, and closer to a small sports wheel size, could be an advantage for it.

Well, actually that is the only acceptable control layout to play a racing sim (or a simcade closer to sim than to arcade) without proper wheel and pedals. And the steering should be mapped to tilt motion control, as a small stick wouldn't allow a control fine enough. I know there is a minority of hardcore sim racers that prefer full-sized high-quality joysticks  to true wheels, but it's a minority, for me even a full-sized decent joystick is enough just for arcade racers (or simcade closer to arcade than sim), and even in them precise control can be hard in the hardest races.

But still, what's the big deal with rather or not third parties sell on Nintendo consoles? Who cares? Just play whatever games you like.