Rumor: WWE 2K21 Canceled, 2K Spokesperson Comments

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The future of WWE's partnership with 2K is reportedly about to change. According to Justin Leeper, who worked on three installments in the SmackDown vs. Raw series and has released numerous reports on the backstage drama surrounding the development of WWE 2K20, uploaded a new video to his YouTube account on Saturday with the report claiming WWE 2K21 would not be happening and that WWE would be looking to release a different type of game via a new developer later in 2020.

"I have heard from reliable sources, and I truly believe, that WWE 2K21 has been canceled. There will be no game this year," Leeper said.

He later added, "2K is publishing a different kind of WWE game from a different kind of game developer that's not Visual Concepts."


ComicBook.com reached out to a 2K Spokesperson regarding Leeper's claims and released the following statement on Wednesday — "We do not comment on rumors or speculation."

While some fans still enjoyed the game, WWE 2K20 was infamously panned at launch for a wide variety of glitches in matches, entrances and in customization menus. Its Metacritic sits at a lowly 43 compared to WWE 2K19's score of 76, and its poor sales took the bulk of the blame for WWE losing $2 million in revenue in the consumer product's division.

"Revenues decreased to $30.8 million from $32.8 million in the prior year quarter primarily due to lower video game royalties, which were driven by the Company's franchise console game WWE 2K20," WWE CFO Frank Riddick explained during an investor's conference call back in February.



The lineage of WWE's console gaming series traces back to WWF SmackDown on the PlayStation in 2000 and was co-developed by Visual Concepts and Yuke's on an annual basis (first by THQ Games, then by 2K Sports starting in 2013 with WWE 2K14). However in August 2019 the news broke that Visual Concepts would be the sole developer for 2K20, while Yuke's moved on to reportedly start working on its own wrestling game.



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IntPosted:

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Int All games like this just love microtransactions and thats how they mostly fund the game.


This game doesn't really have as many as others to be honest. The only reason it was cancelled because the last one was just absolutely awful. They released the last one with a bunch of bugs and glitches and it took them awhile to fix. I think some still exist actually.


What kind of bugs and glitches did they have? I remember the good ole days on 2007 Smackdown vs Raw ahahah.


If you look it up on youtube you should be able to find quite a few. There was one of another wrestlers head on another's groin when it was supposed to be a pin and it just looked like something very inappropriate lol.


LOL this actually sounds hilarious!


There are plenty of other situations but going back to the original point the game lacked a lot of common sense. I mean there were so many issues and I think to this day there still are. They just simply didn't care. I wish someone else had the contract besides 2k because they do not make good WWE games by any means.


Who made the good WWE games was it EA or something?


THQ / Yukes I believe. They made the best ones. I rather play 2007 Smackdown vs. Raw than any of the ones 2k made.


Yesssss! I remember THQ, they had the sickest WWE production to be honest.

CentPosted:

Int
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Int
Cent
Int
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Int All games like this just love microtransactions and thats how they mostly fund the game.


This game doesn't really have as many as others to be honest. The only reason it was cancelled because the last one was just absolutely awful. They released the last one with a bunch of bugs and glitches and it took them awhile to fix. I think some still exist actually.


What kind of bugs and glitches did they have? I remember the good ole days on 2007 Smackdown vs Raw ahahah.


If you look it up on youtube you should be able to find quite a few. There was one of another wrestlers head on another's groin when it was supposed to be a pin and it just looked like something very inappropriate lol.


LOL this actually sounds hilarious!


There are plenty of other situations but going back to the original point the game lacked a lot of common sense. I mean there were so many issues and I think to this day there still are. They just simply didn't care. I wish someone else had the contract besides 2k because they do not make good WWE games by any means.


Who made the good WWE games was it EA or something?


THQ / Yukes I believe. They made the best ones. I rather play 2007 Smackdown vs. Raw than any of the ones 2k made.

IntPosted:

Cent
Int
Cent
Int
Cent
Int All games like this just love microtransactions and thats how they mostly fund the game.


This game doesn't really have as many as others to be honest. The only reason it was cancelled because the last one was just absolutely awful. They released the last one with a bunch of bugs and glitches and it took them awhile to fix. I think some still exist actually.


What kind of bugs and glitches did they have? I remember the good ole days on 2007 Smackdown vs Raw ahahah.


If you look it up on youtube you should be able to find quite a few. There was one of another wrestlers head on another's groin when it was supposed to be a pin and it just looked like something very inappropriate lol.


LOL this actually sounds hilarious!


There are plenty of other situations but going back to the original point the game lacked a lot of common sense. I mean there were so many issues and I think to this day there still are. They just simply didn't care. I wish someone else had the contract besides 2k because they do not make good WWE games by any means.


Who made the good WWE games was it EA or something?

CentPosted:

Int
Cent
Int
Cent
Int All games like this just love microtransactions and thats how they mostly fund the game.


This game doesn't really have as many as others to be honest. The only reason it was cancelled because the last one was just absolutely awful. They released the last one with a bunch of bugs and glitches and it took them awhile to fix. I think some still exist actually.


What kind of bugs and glitches did they have? I remember the good ole days on 2007 Smackdown vs Raw ahahah.


If you look it up on youtube you should be able to find quite a few. There was one of another wrestlers head on another's groin when it was supposed to be a pin and it just looked like something very inappropriate lol.


LOL this actually sounds hilarious!


There are plenty of other situations but going back to the original point the game lacked a lot of common sense. I mean there were so many issues and I think to this day there still are. They just simply didn't care. I wish someone else had the contract besides 2k because they do not make good WWE games by any means.

IntPosted:

Cent
Int
Cent
Int All games like this just love microtransactions and thats how they mostly fund the game.


This game doesn't really have as many as others to be honest. The only reason it was cancelled because the last one was just absolutely awful. They released the last one with a bunch of bugs and glitches and it took them awhile to fix. I think some still exist actually.


What kind of bugs and glitches did they have? I remember the good ole days on 2007 Smackdown vs Raw ahahah.


If you look it up on youtube you should be able to find quite a few. There was one of another wrestlers head on another's groin when it was supposed to be a pin and it just looked like something very inappropriate lol.


LOL this actually sounds hilarious!

CentPosted:

Int
Cent
Int All games like this just love microtransactions and thats how they mostly fund the game.


This game doesn't really have as many as others to be honest. The only reason it was cancelled because the last one was just absolutely awful. They released the last one with a bunch of bugs and glitches and it took them awhile to fix. I think some still exist actually.


What kind of bugs and glitches did they have? I remember the good ole days on 2007 Smackdown vs Raw ahahah.


If you look it up on youtube you should be able to find quite a few. There was one of another wrestlers head on another's groin when it was supposed to be a pin and it just looked like something very inappropriate lol.

IntPosted:

Cent
Lgnd WWE doesn't have as big of fan base as it used too.


The fan base is there I think. It's just they need to find someone else to make the games. 2k gradually took it down hill and now it seems like it's just completely done for.


Yeah the fan base is still there IMO, I know loads of people that are into WWE.

IntPosted:

Cent
Int All games like this just love microtransactions and thats how they mostly fund the game.


This game doesn't really have as many as others to be honest. The only reason it was cancelled because the last one was just absolutely awful. They released the last one with a bunch of bugs and glitches and it took them awhile to fix. I think some still exist actually.


What kind of bugs and glitches did they have? I remember the good ole days on 2007 Smackdown vs Raw ahahah.

CentPosted:

Lgnd WWE doesn't have as big of fan base as it used too.


The fan base is there I think. It's just they need to find someone else to make the games. 2k gradually took it down hill and now it seems like it's just completely done for.

LgndPosted:

WWE doesn't have as big of fan base as it used too.


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