Slightly Mad Studios has made some public statements recently that have made Wii U owners, well…slightly mad. Unfortunately their claims don’t seem to hold much water. Ricard Julianti returns to PlayerEssence to do what he does best, get straight to the facts.
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.
good read. It definitely exposes some flaws and loopholes in Slightly Mad's version of the "truth"
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Slightly Mad got Wii U Owners extremely mad
Two people are to blame for this. Firstly, the Wiiu simply cannot handle current gen games. That's just a fact. Nintendo making hardware like this and releasing it when they did was a joke and all of the bad hardware decisions are now catching up to them. Anyone thinking these devs are going to get next gen graphics on the Wiiu to work are delusional and if you think they're going to work to code for it you're delusional.
But here's where Slightly Mad is full of crap. People funded this game for the Wiiu and to even hint at the game never coming out is bull crap. Again after all of these delays and years of hands on time with the machine you're telling me you couldn't get a dumbed down port to run at 720P 30FPS? This is the problem with game devs these days. I'm sorry but if you delay your game multiple times or even once you better be optimizing until that thing is released. What have they been doing all of this time with the Wiiu build?
Both parties are to blame. Nintendo has to receive the biggest blame because they released a console that has last gen technology in it and it's hard to develop for it. And Slightly Mad is to blame for this since they took peoples kickstarter money and had YEARS to optimize this game for the Wiiu and to even notion that this game won't come out for the system is bull. I hope everyone that pledged for the Wiiu gets their money back.
Is hylarius what they can't make the game run at 720p 30fps in wii u,gran turismo 6 run a 1440x1080 at 60fps in ps3,is clear what the gamecube upgraded cpu what wii u have is the principal factor,but even with the weak cpu,they must can make the game playable removing some things how physics,i think what they only want to get away with not make this version why they believe what can.