The poor performance can be in part because of a horrible and strange architecture. Developers aren't going to spend 1 year porting a day and trying to optimize it, only for you guys to trash it and say it runs horrible. And the Wii U is 299, XB1 is 350. XB1 is 3-4 times more powerful, and has lots of 3rd party support. The Wii U is running last gen hardware, and has almost nonexistant 3rd party support. So I don't think price is an issue here.

Lol. But if the game was canned for the 360 and PS3, its trouble for the Wii U.

The wii u gpu (radeon part) is either 176 or 352 gflops according to the strip down however there is also the original wii gpu in there and other elements to support wii compatibility. The fact is the wii u gpu is on a cheap 40 or 45nm fabrication process but is not consuming enough power to be 352 gflops so its highly likely to be 176 gflops but that still means its far superior to the 360 as there are many generations of improvement, improved feature set and 32MB of blisteringly fast memory available. Whatever it is 176 or 352 gflops no one is claiming the wii u gpu isn't superior to ps3 and 360.

The big issue is the cpu, we know its a triple cpu identical to the original wii cpu but running at 1.25ghz. It's a basic 32bit risc processor from the last century and doesn't compete in performance with 360 or ps3 because those consoles while having slightly less performance by mhz run their cpu's at 3.2ghz not 1.25ghz and so its an easy win for them. 

That brings me around nicely to my final point and that is Project Cars is clearly a racing game with very high cpu requirements because they are taking car simulation to a higher level. This is where the wii u is poor. You can't just downgrade the wii u's graphics to 480p and sort it because the wii u simply hasn't got the cpu resources to run the game. It seems likely to me that the wii u gpu is probably fit for purpose but the cpu can't cope. The ps3 and 360 probably can't run it due to memory requirements and the wii u can't because of cpu requirements. 

The wii u version may have happened if they hadn't abandoned the ps3 and 360 versions. Then all 3 powerpc consoles could have justified development. Yes it would have been simplified to the weakest part of each console but it could still have been a enjoyable title for those 3 consoles.

It never made any commercial sense to just release it on wii u in addition to all the x86 versions.

Idiot. Even specialists could just say the wii u gpu has similarities with many others. that 176-350 gflops is just the power of those "other" gpus that had similarities. haters like you simply say wii u uses one of those, when the console USES A HIGHLY CUSTOMIZED GPGPU. and considering the performance of wii u games (our only real source for wii u's power), it must be equivalent to 0.5-0.6 tflops.

"The big issue is the cpu, we know its a triple cpu identical to the original wii cpu but running at 1.25ghz. It's a basic 32bit risc processor from the last century and doesn't compete in performance with 360 or ps3 because those consoles while having slightly less performance by mhz run their cpu's at 3.2ghz not 1.25ghz and so its an easy win for them. "

MY GOD, YOU ARE SUCH A CRAZY HATER. what kind of idiot would dare say that the wii u cpu is THE SAME than the wii/gc? do you know what BASED means? the cpu is based on the previous, just like windows 8 is based on 7 and so on. The cpu is much better than the one on the x360. the ps360 is mostly a cpu console, so it's cpu is better than even the ones at ps4 and x1. besides that, the wii u features a gpgpu, meaning the gpu can handle some cpu tasks.

Try and stop being a hater after this owned.

The wii u gpu (radeon part) is either 176 or 352 gflops according to the strip down however there is also the original wii gpu in there and other elements to support wii compatibility. The fact is the wii u gpu is on a cheap 40 or 45nm fabrication process but is not consuming enough power to be 352 gflops so its highly likely to be 176 gflops but that still means its far superior to the 360 as there are many generations of improvement, improved feature set and 32MB of blisteringly fast memory available. Whatever it is 176 or 352 gflops no one is claiming the wii u gpu isn't superior to ps3 and 360.

The big issue is the cpu, we know its a triple cpu identical to the original wii cpu but running at 1.25ghz. It's a basic 32bit risc processor from the last century and doesn't compete in performance with 360 or ps3 because those consoles while having slightly less performance by mhz run their cpu's at 3.2ghz not 1.25ghz and so its an easy win for them. 

That brings me around nicely to my final point and that is Project Cars is clearly a racing game with very high cpu requirements because they are taking car simulation to a higher level. This is where the wii u is poor. You can't just downgrade the wii u's graphics to 480p and sort it because the wii u simply hasn't got the cpu resources to run the game. It seems likely to me that the wii u gpu is probably fit for purpose but the cpu can't cope. The ps3 and 360 probably can't run it due to memory requirements and the wii u can't because of cpu requirements. 

The wii u version may have happened if they hadn't abandoned the ps3 and 360 versions. Then all 3 powerpc consoles could have justified development. Yes it would have been simplified to the weakest part of each console but it could still have been a enjoyable title for those 3 consoles.

It never made any commercial sense to just release it on wii u in addition to all the x86 versions.

oh please, they made the decision to port it to Wii U way earlier on, if they were going to make that decision, they should have done it waaaayyy earlier. But no, they thought that the Wii U was a great platform, talked up a big game, thought it would run great, and thought that Nintendo's install base and the lack of sim racers on there would make it sell well enough (see: the poll showing how much interest there was from Wii U owners). now they're going back on all that and screwing over the same people who supported the project in the first place with excuses that aren't even good. sure, it's business, but they're looking like pretty bad "businessman" right now and that reputation is going to stick with anyone who sees it for what it is. it has little to do with the Wii U's power or sales #'s or whatever and it has everything to do with making promises and not keeping them, IMO.

And just because you say "no one can argue" it doesn't mean that's actually true, you're just one person with one opinion -_- and you pretty much lose all credibility as soon as you say something like that can't be argued, because it certainly can be argued and it's just stupid to think it can't