2K (Take-Two) has flopped so hard with WWE 2K20 that they might have given up on this year altogether?

2K releases a WWE video game adaptation each year. 2018’s wrestling does, WWE 2K19, wasn’t troublesome. The same can’t be said of last year’s WWE 2K20, due to Yuke’s, the Japanese dev team behind the series, becoming tired of the series, so they left. The game had to be finished by Visual Concepts, the dev team behind Take-Two‘s NBA 2K series, and the result showed it: it was a quickly rushed, buggy game, which didn’t even function on the first day of 2020 due to another new bug that had to be quickly patched out.

It seems the failure was a big slap on Take-Two’s face, causing them to back out. Regarding this situation, a former dev of the series is saying the game is not happening this year. Justin Leeper previously worked on Smackdown VS Raw 2010 and 2011, and he was also responsible for the Road to Wrestlemania mode in three games. He says WWE 2K21 will not see the daylight because not even the motion capture work has been started, and if that wasn’t enough, the coronavirus is causing another layer of problems altogether, meaning the game could indeed not happen.

Sure, things could change, and WWE could find another company to work on the games, but for that, they’d have to tear up the contract with Take-Two. It could happen, and the coronavirus might make WWE sit a year out (but the wrestling itself might proceed behind closed doors – this series needs a smaller staff than Formula-1).

Leeper says that there will be another WWE-themed this year. We have no clue what it will be, but it likely won’t be what we’d expect. (WWE 2K20 also fits that bill, but that is beside the point.)

Source: JVL

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