"Guaranteed Release Date" Set for Project Cars

The long wait for the release of Project Cars should be over in a matter of weeks, as publisher Bandai Namco has "guaranteed" a specific launch date for the title.

Following a succession of delays to the project on at least three occasions, the racing sim is now due to ship on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on Friday May 8. This release date is specifically for the UK market, and while there is no official launch timings for North America yet, if convention is followed the game should arrive in the US on Tuesday May 5.

Developer Slightly Mad Studios has plans to ship a version on Wii U, but details on the release date for this remain vague.

Meanwhile, a guide for Project Cars' minimum and recommended PC specs has been issued:

Minimum

• CPU: 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400, 3.0 GHz AMD Phenom II X4 940
• GPU: Nvidia GTX 260, ATI Radeon HD 5770
• Memory: 4Gb RAM, 1Gb VRAM

Recommended

• CPU: 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 3700, 4.0 GHz AMD FX-8350
• GPU: Nvidia GT600 series, AMD Radeon HD7000 series
• Memory: 8Gb RAM, 2Gb VRAM

Further below, a list of Project Cars' supported steering wheels can be found (Slightly Mad Studios says this is not final yet).

Developer Slightly Mad Studios originally scheduled to release Project Cars in November 2014, though a month before release that date was pushed to March 2015. Then, weeks ahead of its postponed launch, the game was pushed back again, this time to April.

Ian Bell, the developer who heads up Slightly Mad Studios, said the further delay was initiated because detecting all of the game's final bugs has proven to be a complex task.

“Despite our long heritage and pedigree in making critically-acclaimed racing games, Project CARS is by far the grandest and most intricately detailed of them all," he wrote in a prepared statement.

Project Cars Supported Steering Wheels

PLAYSTATION 4

• Thrustmaster T300RS
• Thrustmaster T300 Ferrari GTE
• Thrustmaster T100 Force Feedback
• Thrustmaster T80
• Thrustmaster TH8RS
• Thrustmaster TH8A
• Thrustmaster T3PA Pedals
• Thrustmaster T500RS
• Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S
• Fanatec Porsche 911 GT2
• Fanatec Porsche 911 GT3 v2
• Fanatec CSR (+ Pedals)
• Fanatec CSR Elite (+ Pedals)
• Fanatec ClubSport Wheel Base
• Fanatec ClubSport Wheel Base v2

XBOX ONE

• Thrustmaster TX Racing Wheel Ferrari 458 Italia Edition
• Thrustmaster Ferrari 458 Spider Racing
• Thrustmaster TH8A
• Thrustmaster T3PA Pedals
• Fanatec ClubSport Wheel Base
• Fanatec ClubSport Wheel Base v2
• Mad Catz Pro Racing Force Feedback

PC

• Thrusmaster T300RS
• Thrustmaster T300 Ferrari GTE
• Thrustmaster TX Racing Wheel Ferrari 458 Italia Edition
• Thrustmaster T100 Force Feedback
• Thrustmaster TH8RS
• Thrustmaster TH8A
• Thrustmaster T3PA Pedals
• Thrustmaster T500RS
• Thrustmaster RGT Force Feedback Clutch
• Thrustmaster F430 Force Feedback
• Thrustmaster Ferrari F1 Wheel Integral T500
• Thrustmaster GP XID Gamepad
• Thrustmaster GPX Gamepad
• Thrustmaster GPX LightBack Black Edition Gamepad
• Fanatec Porsche Turbo
• Fanatec Porsche Carrera
• Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S
• Fanatec Porsche 911 GT2
• Fanatec Porsche 911 GT3 v2
• Fanatec CSR (+ Pedals)
• Fanatec CSR Elite (+ Pedals)
• Fanatec ClubSport Shifter (+SQ)
• Fanatec ClubSport Wheel Base
• Fanatec ClubSport Wheel Base v2
• Logitech G25
• Logitech G27
• Logitech Driving Force
• Logitech Driving Force Pro
• Logitech Driving Force GT
• Logitech MOMO Force
• Logitech MOMO Racing_
• SimRaceway SRW-S1

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