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The Senior Vice President of Japanese developer Yuke's – responsible for most of the WWE games of the past few years including the recent WWE 2K series – has gone on record to declare the studio is to create a new wrestling game that's not related to its long running series.
Speaking in a fascinating chat with Video Games Chronicle, Hiromi Furuta cited the lack of major rivals in the wrestling space as 'not being healthy' for the company, even going so far as to say they are aware that 'our creators are beginning to lose sight of their passion and confidence and becoming focused only on completing assigned tasks. That’s not the direction Yuke’s wants to go in.' Their solution is to create a new wrestling IP, that Furuta says will be 'the internal competition for WWE.'
That doesn't mean they're ending their current relationship with the home of AJ Styles, Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins though, with Hiromi clarifying 'We have a huge history making these games and still have a good relationship with 2K. Anyhow, WWE would never allow us to stop making these games!'
Apparently the new project is in a very early stage right now, and could go in a few different ways, with Furuta also stating that 'We’ll go in whatever direction we feel is most interesting, combined with the passion of whoever leads the project. As long as whoever leads the project has enough passion, then I’m sure we will achieve our goals.'
What do you think readers? Our resident wrestling expert Colm is on holiday this week, but I'm sure he'd be interested in a New Japan wrestling game (outside of Fire Pro Wrestling on PS4 and PC.) Maybe a potential AEW game? We'll have to wait and see, but in the meantime, why not shout your ideas on our forums?
Source: Video Games Chronicle.
