Yuke’s, the ongoing developer of the WWE 2K games series, has announced that they will be working on an additional rival wrestling game in hopes to motivate the staff to build a better game overall and promote competition in the genre.
Video Games Chronicle interviewed Hiromi Furuta, who serves as Yuke’s producer and senior vice president, said that the developer will staff a new team at creating it’s own wrestling game so it “will be the internal competition for WWE.”
Furuta says that the current WWE team will stay put, but Yuke’s is “aware that our creators are beginning to lose sight of their passion and confidence” when it comes to developing something fresh and innovative.
The new wrestling IP is still in early development so Furuta states that a target audience isn’t quite in place yet and that the Yuke’s is unsure about going a “very realistic” route or something more fantastical.
“We’re not chasing money or trends,” she said. “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.”
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