'Project CARS' Wii U Release Date Criticism: Slightly Mad Studios Responds to Backlash

Project CARS has made quite the impact on the gaming world when it was released on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One earlier this month, garnering positive sales and reviews-but why haven't we seen a Wii U version to the racing title yet? Well, while speaking with Nintendo Life this week, Slightly Mad Studios head Ian Bell has decided to address the fact that Wii U gameplay isn't happening in the time frame as some gamers wanted out of the crowd funded project. Read more on this news below.

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We should be thanking the developer for such a great game, but Nintendo users definitely have a reason to complain since we haven't heard any updates on the WII U version of Project CARS In this new statement from Bell, we learn why this is taking place (via IGN).

"Project CARS/Weapons of Mass Development opened funding initially as a Free to Play PC only Racing game. This is when the bulk of the funding arrived," Bell said in a statement released to Nintendo Life. "Funding was closed late 2013. By vote of the members, it changed to a boxed product PC/Xbox 360/PS3 and 'maybe Wii U' game. It was always 'maybe' as we had no knowledge of the system. It was again changed, by vote of the members, to a PC/Xbox One/PS4 next gen game with still 'maybe Wii U' and Steam OS. The funding, as I said above, was closed long before this. We still haven't given up on Wii U 100% but if we can't make it work we will move to the next Nintendo machine."

In other words, you shouldn't really be complaining about this because the Wii U version was never truly promised. Plus, they're still working on it!

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