Project CARS for Wii U Cancelled Due to Hardware Issues

When the positively received Project CARS released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC back in May, fans wondered of a Wii U release. Before today, developers were doubtful of porting Project CARS to the Wii U, as the game faced tremendous difficulty with the specifications of the hardware. Unfortunately, it seems that the technological roadblock prevented Project Cars from releasing on the Wii U… permanently.

Today, Slightly Mad Studios has issued a formal statement on the ceased development of the Wii U port of the racer:

“Despite much perseverance on the Wii U version of Project Cars, we will no longer be actively pursuing development on it as the quality does not meet our own high standards nor our intended vision for the title on this platform.”

“We eagerly look forward to any announcement of further hardware from Nintendo but right now Project Cars is simply too much for Wii U despite our very best efforts. Apologies to our Nintendo fans out there that have been waiting for further news on this but we have no desire to release a product that isn’t at the very least comparable with our highest-rated versions on other platforms. We optimistically look forward therefore to what the future may hold.”

It is claimed that Slightly Mad will nevertheless try to release Project CARS (or Project CARS 2) for the Nintendo NX, but the team is currently waiting for the announcement of the new system. I suppose the Wii U just couldn’t handle the CARS.

R.I.P., Wii U’s Project CARS. We hardly knew ye.