Here’s the latest trailer launched by Playtonic Games for Yooka-Laylee. Detect just about anything distinctive at the close, there? That is ideal, the Wii U brand is missing when the display showcasing the game’s platforms show up. That is simply because Playtonic Games has canceled the Wii U version of the video game.
That is problematic for Kickstarter backers who donated in excess of ÂŁ2 million to the job in 2015 with the caveat that the video game would be launched for Laptop, Xbox One particular, PlayStation four, and Wii U. The video game is now slated to be launched on April 11, 2017 and the Wii U version has been cancelled.
A new Kickstarter update offers some insight into why Playtonic felt the want to cancel the Wii U version of the video game, which cites “unforseen specialized problems that regretably mean it will be unachievable for us to release the video game on Wii U as in the beginning planned. The builders say they labored tirelessly for numerous months in an try to address these specialized problems, but in the close, they manufactured the difficult determination to move absent from the Wii U.
Playtonic did not elaborate on what people specialized problems were, but they did condition that Kickstarter backers who backed exclusively for the Wii U version can ask for a refund, transfer to a different system, or hold out for the Nintendo Change version of the video game, which will be completely introduced future year.