In the latest edition of Nintendo Rants, Shawn Long takes issue with the Wii U version of Project CARS being delayed. Find out why in this latest episode.
This video explains why we think Electronic Arts didn't see a future in the sim racing title Project CARS and promptly cancelled the fourth instalment.
After the last installment I’d say most hardcore fans left. It’s just not that good anymore so I can’t really blame EA this time.
Ask Bullfrog or Black Box or Tiburon or Studio 33 or Criterion or any of the previously acquired developers who made racing games as competition, or as developers of EA games, then eventually dissolved into oblivion or reassigned. Just ask them. They'll tell you why.
Ian Bell, the founder of Slightly Mad Studios, is aiming to hire former Project CARS employees to work on his upcoming GTR Revival project.
If it's just going to be another sim-cade that doesn't do either one correctly then no thanks.
Project CARS 2 was a step in the right direction but the physics still aren't where they should have been, so what did they do for PC3? Go completely arcade. That killed the franchise.
From GI.biz: "EA is dropping Project CARS, GamesIndustry.biz can reveal.
The Slightly Mad Studios-developed series was launched in 2015, with EA confirming today that it has made the decision to "stop further development and investment" in the franchise.
The announcement was made internally and it's unclear at this stage to which extent staff could be affected. EA said that employees working on Project CARS will be moved into "suitable" roles "wherever [they] can.""
Typical for EA. They buy studios that created nice games..and are sooner or later destroying them and move the people to work on the old same 5+ EA series.
and instead they come out with that piece of shit of Need for Speed which looks like an Anna & Barbera cartoon. C'mon .... PC2 was my go to game for VR racing and the first one i played for tens of hours. i was so lookiing forward to PC4 after that failure of PC3 ... what a shame EA, they are bombing all the good games and stick to the garbage ones. EA when you think you have reached maximum of disappointment they top it off with style .... screw them!
What they did to this series was idiotic. The premise was great -- a sim/simcade game that GENUINELY got developed in line with its community. There is a huge gap in the market for this...I mean, PD hasn't listened to fans at all over the last year with regard to simple Gran Turismo 7 tweaks. Sim racing fans are screaming for a title where they actually give a shit about their users.
Project Cars 2 was genuinely on to something, it just needed some refinement. But instead they followed up by selling off to EA with a braindead GRID clone with Project Cars 3. Again...idiotic.
I don't think I've ever seen Shawn this upset before; wow.
Some strong points made though; releasing against such strong competition this Fall (The Crew, Driveclub, Forza Horizon 2) is sure to have a negative impact on sales.
They'd be smarter to delay all of the versions to 2015 along with Wii U. Not only would they have a better chance at selling the game but they'd also save face with Wii U fans as well.
Project CARS was originally a PC and Wii U game, only for those platforms, so there you got another huge reason to get more upset.
Not only that btw. Many people actually paid to the development team in order to get the game on their Wii U. This is not fair for those people that have been supporting the game since the very beginning.
games got more complex now, take precious time and more money to make, a system like wiiu that has too little 3rd party sales might not get the treatment of the more selling ones
don't get me wrong, all systems SHOULD get equal treatment but that how it is nowadays
but at the same time, the wiiu version was in development since the game's inception....hmmmmm....???
i have a ps4 and a wiiU but doing this kind of BS just made me mad and pissed. your original plan is to release it on pc and wiiU and wtf?! money sales has totally blinded you guys..you guys dont even have the balls to release this game along the soo called next gen console..im sad and so disappointed am i fan of racing but this BS move made me decide i wont buy your game even on my ps4..