Project Cars for WiiU is about as good as Dead.

Mario Party 10 is one, bunch of families enjoying that one. Nintendo can only develop so many games. Theyre good, but come on, they cant shat gold daily. We may have droughts, but good thing we got wells.

@KBFloYd: Again with you changing the subject. Admit it. The Wii U has had a trademark Nintendo drought.

so does the ps4..admit that

What are these droughts you speak of? I'm creeping up to over 50 games on Wii U now. Instead all I hear are haters talking about droughts. I'm not hurting for games on it.

@Gue1: Why do people think you can get refunds for Funded stuff?

You get the product you thought you backed you just get pissed and move on. There are no refunds for Kickstarter or Backed things.

Those people got screwed pretty badly. Nintendo should have more power in the Wii U. Their rep as a console maker is embarrassing until they actually make a proper console. I feel bad for them.

I'm sure the 3 fellows waiting for the Wii U version are disappointed.

@EducatingU_PCMR: There were more.

Looks how crappy it runs on the other consoles and you thought it would run on the Wii U? Project cars shows how shitty the 8th gen consoles are in power.

The way nintendo is treating splatton is not minor.The game is currently matching witcher 3 in preorders from what I heard which tells me the game will easy sell decent and maybe even really well on the console. I don't think the game will be the saviour of the console, but I can easily see it end up being in at least the top 5 for best selling wiiu game. Let's keep the discussion on the WiiU version of Project Cars.

And where did you hear THAT?

@super600: You want to keep the discussion about wii u project cars but started by talking about splatoon. You can't have your cake and eat it .

Better to just cancel the project than half answers. The WiiU can't run the game as made, and that drives up the port price. When you add in a tiny user base that rarely rewards third party IPs, it makes sense. It doesn't make sense to say "if we don't see new hardware at E3 we'll maybe kinda sorta try again...

Nintendo owners do not buy third party games. Even when the wii was a pop culture hit third party games still struggled.

@gamevet77: This is true. I was surprised when I'd heard a third party publisher was taking the risk of a mature racer that was a Wii U exclusive. I was unsurprised when they moved on to next gen instead, and very unsurprised when the development of those versions took precedence. It's just economics. A third party game on wii u is a gigantic risk at the very least. Before we factor in the game being a sim racer.

At some Gamestop's it may be matching Witcher 3 preorder according to some people that went to preorder games at certain gamestop's . I don't think the game will beat Witcher 3 in sales anyway.It also seems to be doing good or great on multiple Amazon sites(UK,Japan and etc). The advertising for the game is also really decent. People noticed splatoon related advertisement in multiple stores, the game has been even advertised even in movie theatres and other places.I don't think the game will be niche anyway.

Don't particularly care about the game. And if I wanted it I would get it on PS4/Xbox One. But, regardless, Splatoon this week!

What about Monster Hunter, Sonic, Lego games, Skylanders, Just Dance, Rayman, Kingdom Hearts etc? Nintendo fans buy good games, not half ports, weak multiplats, or hyped games. Nintendo fans buy what they love, not what they think they might love. Nintendo fans are a little picky only because games are not cheap, some become hard to get, and also cause they have way to many choices of awesome games, that competition be real.

You've gone from currently matching to a load of fabrications, maybes, and absolutely no facts.

A lot of the stuff I 'm talking about was mentioned by people on multiple forums and other sites.Some people posted images of some splatoon advertising while others ust posted whatever they saw.I always saw a few commericals related to the game recently on tv. We are getting off topic about this anyway now.

@super600: You keep saying that but you're the one dragging it off topic. The first part of your post is off topic and the next is telling others not to be.

Yeah I recognized that I was getting off topic by answering your post. If you want to discuss this Imore bring it up in the splatoon thread.I'm done arguing for now.

23 FPS is perfectly fine and totally playable. Not sure what's the problem.

>.>

Doh! bummer...thought this might happen. :P

The weak CPU is possibly a culprit. Not enough SIMD performance to handle the number of calculations needed for a modern car sim, at least in comparison to the Xbone and PS4. I figured the Wii U version was using the same graphical assets as the cancelled PS3 and 360 versions, of which I don't see why it would have issue. Perhaps it's the memory system. The 32 MB of eDRAM is pretty large, but the main memory system may be too slow to sufficiently feed the eDRAM which I suspect is used as a texture and frame buffer.

hahahaha

If the machine doesn't have the power to realize the developer's vision, then that's just it. Fact of the matter is, Wii U is weak. The Wii U version of Project Cars has had more development time than all the other console versions, yet 23FPS is all the developers can squeeze out of the hardware. This isn't the first time a developer hasn't been able to get their project working on the Wii U well. Arkham Knight won't work on Wii U, among many others. I refuse to believe that these developers are lazy or unskilled. That's not a fair assumption.

How sad really.

Didn't Criterion Games did an EXCELLENT job with Need for Speed on WiiU?

I think, correct me if I'm wrong, the game ran a solid 60fps at 720p.

They are, they are getting a huge slap in the face from these devs. I'd be highly upset if I helped fund the WiiU version. They actually have a legit reason to be upset.

Yeah, but Most Wanted wasn't supposed to be a Car Racing Sim.

30fps, but yeah, it ran a bit smoother than 360 and had much higher res textures, and revamped nightime lighting which looked fantastic.

The reason why the game is struggling to run at 30fps and 720p on the WiiU is because of they are trying to use some of the stuff they added to xbox 1, ps4 and PC versions of the game like that tyre model for the cars(Which is seta for those versions of the game), weathering, dynamic lightning and etc. They could theoretically cut back some of this stuff a bit and get it run at 30fps easily, but I don't know if they want to do that. They may actually release the game on the console still and they will probably make that decision around E3.

lol I'd laugh if they released footage of the Wii U version. I honestly doubt its existence.

wow, thanks for the info

Is anyone really suprised? Did they even show footage of the Wii-U version?

Do you blame them?

There is very little incentive to be a third party developer and make a game for the WiiU.

Update: Ian bell admits on the project cars forum that the tyre model is way to much for the WiiU's CPU. He also says earlier in the thread that the wiiu's cpu is quite good in his opinion and that they went a bit nuts with tyre mode and that it's there fault.

http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/showthread.php?27584-Can-the-Wii-U-run-PCARS/page23&p=945008#post945008

http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/showthread.php?27584-Can-the-Wii-U-run-PCARS/page22

Interested in what they do next with that version.

Crooks like the people at Slightly Mad are the reason why I am afraid to back things on kickstarter. This game was intended for the Wii U/PC first before the other next gen platforms even were revealed yet. They were also planing a ps3 and 360 version at the time so I know it can be done, and I also know that it wouldn't compare to the PC or next gen console version, but they should still release the game.

Whenever people asked about the wii U version they said it was going well. Going well my ass! Those guys probably just started on the Wii U version just after the Ps4 and XB1 versions shipped.

They started on the WiiU version way before the other versions of the game existed. They ran into issues with the WiiU version because they went overboard with their tyre model.

Wii U owners help kickstart the game, and now your going back on them basically saying sorry.

I really couldn't less if the game is even released, let alone for the Wii U. I know I would be upset if I helped support this thing for them.

That damage control.

Fuckin' hell nintendo... NX better have a good CPU, better than the shit in Ps4 as well.

I sort of agree with you on this one, but the dev is being totally deceiving by claiming this has anything to do with hardware. Project Cars could easily be put on the WiiU. This is a racing sim we're talking about. The ps3/360 era sims were very good looking with lots of content.

They don't want to make a WiiU port because the WiiU has a small install base. They knew the WiiU's specs and capabilities from the start, and the game was even a WiiU title way before they considered putting it on the ps4 or xbone. Of course it was going to have to be a custom version and not a straight port.

Also, I got to love how they think that transferring it over to the NX project somehow absolves them of their promises to Nintendo fans. Of course this is just more patronizing BS. They know that the NX is not coming any time soon. They are trying to deflect blame for this onto Nintendo. They want Nintendo's e3 to be the announcement or non-announcement that decides the fate of this game.

They are using a tyre model that is way to demanding for the WiiU's cpu(It actually takes up all of the WiiU's available cores which is two). They could technically use an older tyre model and downgrade a few things to get the game running on the WiiU,but I don't know if they will do that.They haven't decided what they will do yet anyway.If they do go back to working on the WiiU version of the game they will definitely get rid of that tyre model from what I hae been reading in that thread on the project cars forum and downgrade it to one that can better run on the WiiU's cpu.

Honestly I'm not so sure Project Cars would have sold well on the WiiU, don't see the install base being highly interested in picking up a racing simulator..