Project Cars cancelled for Wii U; 'simply too much' for Nintendo's hardware
Slightly Mad Studios' Ian Bell has confirmed Project Cars won't be coming to the Wii U as the game is "simply too much" for its limited hardware.
It took several months for us to finally get Project Cars after it was hit with a number of delays. While PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC owners were able to get their fix of the driving sim, the Wii U version has yet to be seen. Today, Slightly Mad Studios boss Ian Bell has confirmed the Wii U version of Project Cars has been cancelled.
Bell spoke to Nintendo Life regarding the future of Project Cars on Wii U, to which he stated, “The official line is that we're awaiting an announcement from Nintendo on new hardware. As of now pCARS is simply too much for the Wii U.”
It shouldn’t be surprising to hear a game like Project Cars would be too much to handle for the Wii U. There’s a lot going on in the game and the last thing we’re sure the developers would want to do is compromise their product in the name of getting it to run on the Wii U’s limited hardware.
This doesn’t necessarily mean Nintendo fans shouldn’t expect a version of Project Cars to be made available in the future as Slightly Mad Studios wants to see what kind of hardware Nintendo NX offers. The question is: will there still be an audience for Project Cars when the NX is released, especially since a sequel is currently in the works?
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replyDaniel Perez posted a new article, Project Cars cancelled for Wii U; 'simply too much' for Nintendo's hardware
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Saw that coming.
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If I had to guess it's a RAM issue which isn't fixed by SLI :(
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Ooooh. Time to daisy chain a super computer out of hardware sold at a loss again.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2550433/computer-hardware/air-force-taps-playstation-3-for-research.html
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I work at this lab. :D
Through attrition and other reasons, I think it's down under 1100 PS3'S now. Still operational though!
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In mother Japan, game console runs business?
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Nintendo, save the Wii U as far as I know, has built in slots for potential expansions in all of their consoles since the 64, many of which were never/barely used.
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That is in fact how I got my first Nintendo. It was purchased not by my Dad but by AT&T and was in a constant state of partial dis-assembly. AT&T's plan was to bring a modem into people's home, connect it to the NES through the expansion port, and then build financial and consumer services on it. It never got past the investigation stage AFAIK, but my Dad was on the engineers tasked with disassembling an NES and determining what its capabilities for expansion were.
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Yup, I remember playing a multi-screen Forza demo at E3 on year where they had multiple 360s linked together.
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That's like 8 gamecubes
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I want to see this.
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The ULTIMATE in cubed gaming.
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stack 3 vertically for a gamecubit
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Yup, the state of Nintendo's hardware is a crock of bullshit. If Nintendo wants to keep playing in the home console market they're going to have to produce more capable hardware (along with putting effort into catering to third parties, and making an online system that didn't fall out the back of the short bus).
Using exclusively first-party IPs to sell their consoles is going to be less and less tenable as time goes on.-
they're the only ones that's are doing something other than "look it has more power than the previous model" cycle that the other 2 have locked themselves into, they're becoming not only indistinguishable from each other but are closer to mini pc's in specs and price. then there's the devs that focus their resources on graphics, forcing higher hardware requirements for a small visual improvements.
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PS4 always sold at a profit. The strategy of selling loss leader hardware that makes up on software and accessory sales proved to be a failure. This is why Sony was so conservative this generation. Losing another $4 billion over a console lifecycle would have been unacceptable, especially since the rest of Sony is also bleeding billions a year.
The XBox One was also initially sold for profit, but that went out the window when Microsoft slashed its price by $150 within a year. Sony positioned themselves as well as Microsoft completely fumbled by gambling everything on the Kinect. -
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Nintendo might be trying to do something different, but they are failing each time. (And yes, I consider the Wii a failure. It failed to attract any new long-term customers, and it lost many of the former Nintendo faithful.)
They are not Apple. They do not have the ingenuity (or the money) to create new market spaces. Their expertise is in their first party titles. They need to start creating platforms that attract as many people to those as possible.-
increases in hardware spec really only appeals to the core/existing customers. it increases costs for everyone involved; hardware manufacturers, developers, and the consumer, which is just going to price out more customers than it'll attract. eventually they're going to reach a point where increasing hardware performance will be cost prohibitive for everyone (sony kind of did with the ps3). atleast nintendo is experimenting on trying different things, while keeping costs within a reason to their competitors.
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The problem is that hardly anyone actually wants those "different things". Consumers don't especially want them, especially when it doesn't come along with everything the other consoles have. Developers don't especially want them, since there isn't as much of an install base and they effectively have to build games specifically for the platform.
In a sense you're right: The game isn't about hardware anymore. "Looks damn good" and "plays most of the latest games" are the entry fees. The game is really about software, and online services, and extra (often home entertainment) functionality. But Nintendo doesn't do all that software stuff either. Nintendo does first party games and hardware gimmicks.
And as far as introducing new people and expanding the market? That's not Nintendo. That's mobile and web.
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They could whittle it down and call it Project Mario Kart.
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i noticed that as well. i wonder what the real story is? Either it wasn't going well or something change.
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It was until they developed a new tire model and the Wii cpu couldn't handle it. For a while they were using the old tire model from shift 2 but they spent around 3 years developing a new one that updates at 600 times and second and is much more complex. They couldn't get the FPS on the wii after that.
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