Out Today: WWE 2K18 Spears Its Way Onto Nintendo Switch

Got it! £80!

In handheld it plays like it's running in slo-mo. Patch incoming?

Gallagher flipping Cena, ha ha. 7:40ish mark in video.

My concern is that they must have known something was wrong with the port since they have been dead quiet on the release of the game until recently. That is all too often a telltale sign of a bad port, and looking at the comments I was right.

Ow I want this to be good. Please be good.

Well... let's see if this game ends up playable eventually. If it does, I might pick it up next year.

If it's anything like nba 2k18 on Switch, this game will be very good in about a month when it gets patched.

Can we just pretend 2K arent actually supporting the Switch? Pretty please?

Cheapskates passing a whopping 25GB download to the consumer. LOL to that, mate.

Some try to justify this scummy practice now, but once your 128-200GB microSD cards quickly fill up with nothing more than mandatory downloads courtesy of cheapskate publishers, I bet that you'll think differently about it. If one were to buy the four currently available retail games that succumb to this practice, that's already 80GB worth of data that should have been provided on cartridge (and that isn't even inclusive of the ADDITIONAL space that would be required for save data and software updates).

@blockfight difference is that NBA has visual concepts so you can guarantee improvements

WWE has yukes. I wouldn't expect a patch to improve things.

That's what I was thinking @blockfight. A patch will likely come. Kind of expected it actually, not that I agree with it, but... as long as they address it.

@QwertyQwerty From everything I've seen the game is actually crap (Which is on par with past iterations of the game). 2K deserves zero props for this trainwreck of a release. If that's what people want, to each their own I guess.

@JamesR You paid £80? Lol

https://youtu.be/9S9tuMhWIHM

How could they release this?

no physical release?

... WWE Underwater Simulator? Damn it, dammit, damn it!

Buyers beware... it runs like trash. I'd wait to see if they fix it first. They're clearly just wanting those Xmas sales!

@Hughesy yep - picked up the DLC too. It's not worth it at all.

Ha, only WWF game i played was on the N64 and the cartridge was dodgy so it reset itself and you lost your custom characters and progress everytime you turned your console off

I don't care what people say about most games I have this on the Xbox one so just really wanting this to play before class and on long road trips

Personally I didn't mind FIFA missing stuff in the Switch version, as the matches ran pretty well for a handheld experience. It was a 'jumpers for goalposts' experience, but it was still fun.

Who cares if we get all the bonus modes and characters and plop if the game stutters and freezes?

@QwertyQwerty Yeah I get your point, but saying "thanks 2K for also allowing us to play this crap game" is depressing haha. They got it right with NBA2k, but what's the point of all the WWE features if the game barely runs.

Cmon ea!
You release with no announcement?! Wtf you obviously don't want your games to be successful on switch and then blame Nintendo and not release games anymore.
It's so dodgy this has been released like this so I will defo be waiting for reviews before I purchase.

@Deathwalka This is not EA this is 2k, two competing companies.

@Bunkerneath That was WWF No Mercy, I remember it well, as my Bro and I kept getting angry back then as it kept happening, no patches in those days lol

@blockfight Is 2K18 finally playable? I've been waiting.

Physical release is out at Game stores in UK for £34.99 on December 12th

@Bunkerneath they sent replacement cartridges it free of charge for that and it was the best wrestling game ever made to this day. WWF No Mercy

@sillygostly I get what you are saying but it is the same more or less with all platforms. My Xbox One Is full because it requires a full manditory install of every game I purchase.

Wasn't excited, but if it got good reviews I might try it out. After watching footage this game runs like trash, honestly I'll take blurry and last gen visuals before I take anything less than 30FPS

@NintendoLife

Waiting for the review before buying.
Interested in how the game plays undocked vs docked, game modes, and online modes.

@Moon I had same issue with bomberman so returned it. That got fixed and I rebougjt later on. If 2K want to make a success of themselves on switch, can’t see them not fixing bugs

@Mommar reports I've heard from friends who own it is that it's very good now.

Just bought it on the eShop. It turned out to be just a 20 gig download; not as massive as I feared. Bought the $5 unlock-everyone DLC; worked fine (Note: You have to activate the unlock option in the character select screen).

The game plays...okay... To the developer's credit, it really looks like they tried to cram everything onto the Switch. Character creator seems full-featured. Personally, I'd have gladly given up less detail in the crowds and stadiums in exchange for a bit more character detail (although what's there is fine), but this is not a train wreck. It's running... it hasn't crashed yet... It's a full featured WWE game I can take anywhere. So far, I'm happy with the purchase.

Gameplay pretty smooth here. Still there is something not right as other matches look like slow motion

https://youtu.be/OiK3kvaGBQU

As if waiting 2 months longer than PS and XBOX owners was not enough, I have been downloading this game since 9am this morning and it is only at 60% downloaded. I preorder this game at gamestop months ago and as of yesterday afternoon they still had no official launch date so obviously they would not have any physical copies of the game this morning. I know I don't have the fastest internet but COME ON NINTENDO. The pathetic operation of this company is getting to be more than I can put up with.

@Vandyfan: It's your internet. I downloaded the whole thing (it's a huge download) in less than 2 hours. And regarding availability; Nintendo did not develop this game. Don't blame them for things that aren't their fault.

@Vandyfan sounds like your internet. I download games on my Pro and One bigger than that and it doesn't take THAT long! My PC is the fastest with downloads though. My Switch gets things done pretty fast as well. We have very fast internet in my home🙂

@Mommar nothing really wrong with NBA 2k18 on a technical level.

Reading these comments makes me glad I didn't pre-order this game.

You all should remember this too, the next time a company like 2k tries to coerce you into doing so.

Thanks for the response. I know my internet is slow. I also know everything is not Nintendo's fault. I'm just excited about this game and instead of playing it all day.. I'm waiting all day for it to download lol. I am a nintendo person 4 life and have been for 30 years.

£35 amazon UK release on 12th December though through them.

@JamesR NBA 2K18 is amazing on the switch. My brother has it and playing that on a portable console is something special.

Is it wrong to ask for a No Mercy 2, or a Day of Reckoning 3?

Another criticism of this game (not limited to the Switch version) is that the commentary is really clunky.

I've been out of the loop with sports games since the GameCube and was blown away by the commentary on NBA 2K18. It felt real and very fluid. WWE 2K18 is nowhere near this.

No interest in this game. But I'm confused why has someone paid £80 for this game when someone else has stated the physical release will be £35 next week. What's going on with pricing. Also NL list the game at £55. Admittedly not a fan, but who is paying this kind of money for a game like this. Greedy licensed games.

By the way, if I ordered a meal at a restaurant and it was only part cooked/complete, and the establishment suggested I would get what I actually paid for at some point in the near future, I'd (kindly) tell them where to go.

Try to remain informed, and vote with your wallets, if developers wish to continue making money then they can adapt to provide the service we're paying for. Rant over

@kobashi100 yes I agree. The only drawback is that I don't understand why certain modes are limited while offline.

@Bod2019 I paid £80 in the eShop. This version includes all DLC. The eShop lists the regular version for £55.

If people are getting £20 off RRP by going physical, good luck to them.

@Bod2019 this may be a tangential issue but I place a premium on buying digital. So I'm generally happy to spend an extra £5-10 for the digital version. I almost never want to sell my games so the resale value never enters my consideration.

Nintendo games don't tend to get discounted very quickly. This generally pushes me into picking up the game on Day 1 safe in the knowledge that I'm not hugely losing out.

However, 2K have slightly annoyed me on two fronts. NBA 2K18 was hugely discounted (by 1/3 I believe) within a few months of release and while still patching the game. This makes it extremely likely that I won't pick up NBA 2K19 on Day 1. Likewise, the fact that WWE 2K18 is £35 on Amazon is a little hard to swallow.

@JamesR

Just did a quick Google, seems £44 for physical copy is easily achieveable from a large supermarket chain.

This is no dig at you, but I'm perturbed by the whole dlc at launch thing. Again it smacks of greed and/or selling a basic/inferior version of the game, only to say it'll be better if you throw more money at it.

I'm old (36) and grew up playing NES, SNES, Mega Drive etc..,. When you bought those games, you kind of bought the whole game, I've not adapted well to this 'keep throwing money at a dead duck' scenario.

Don't get me wrong, it's great when the longevity of a game is extended down the line through expansion, with further, enriching experiences (as we're seeing with Splatoon 2, ARMS, Zelda et al), but asking people to fork out money, at launch, kind of reeks of conmen. Next thing you know they'll be asking to invest in a 'Pyramid Scheme'

@JamesR

Just saw your second reply. Didn't realise it was available at that price on Amazon. As you said most Nintendo games seem pretty constant in price. But this release is all over the place.

I don't know much about 2K, but I've already pigeon holed them with EA based on this brief exposure.

I'm just venting frustration, that's all.

@JamesR

How could you pay £80 for this.

I want the game as well shopped around and found it for £29.99 on shopto website. Hopefully by the time the 12th comes when the game releases physically it will have been patched.

@Bod2019 we're the same age!

I've been primarily a Nintendo gamer and am just getting used to the idea of DLC. I've bought 4 DLC packs on Switch: Zelda, Xenoblade, Snipperclips and WWE.

Snipperclips DLC was basically a second game made after the huge reception of the original. Zelda/Xenoblade fall into my category of "I love this project and am happy to support it" - I have not yet been burnt by Nintendo and give them the benefit of the doubt.

WWE is different. I was really looking forward to the game and realise that this could be the only WWE I play for a decade. On balance, I chose to jump all-in. But... it is clear that they are keeping content from the game to sell back to you. 2K are not EA but they are close.

@garydbz25 not a fan of physical releases. As mentioned, I generally rely on the digital being close to the physical price (I know I pay a digital tax).

But the fact that on release day there can be nearly a 50% discrepancy between physical and digital makes it extremely likely that I won't but another 2K game on release date.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/2K-Games-NSW76069-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B0743GDLFZ

Amazon link for wwe 2k18 £34.99 as per my older post

If you know where I can find the link for the user manual for WWE 2k18 for Nintendo Switch would you be able to send it me or put it in the comments on here. Thanks

Who cares about the download size.. in a years time fans will be deleting it to get the next one anyway

@MadJay1664: Who cares about download size? Anyone with slower internet or an SD card smaller than 128. Even though I bought a 256 card, I still keep track of what's left, since I buy everything digitally. First games to get deleted eventually will be Just Dance 2017 and One Two Switch (neither or which are worth their insanely large file sizes).

I will be looking forward to the review to see if 2K fixed their mess after the terrible launch of NBA2k18 earlier this year - though that game got patched, it should not have had the problems it did to begin with.

This is what happens when you think the switch is a home console first and then a handheld console second. Whatever the case I will not be getting this game. I haven't bought a wrestling game since the PS2. Not about to now. I miss the N64 days.

@Walrus_McCloud yeah agreed! Suppose we're lucky still considering xbox games are like 50 gigs. I think forza took about 90 gigs and that's with the disc!

#Pass wonder how large the save file is for this one. Holding out for GTA V, we can but dream, already have too many games lol.

@faint : The other consoles require mandatory installations (due to the limitations of optical disc media) and not mandatory downloads (except perhaps in some rare cases). Unless I'm mistaken, most PS4/Bone games are fully playable with the contents of the disc alone, unlike the Switch games that I have alluded to. Sure, many games may have updates and whatnot, but they shouldn't be required to play.

Relatively speaking, hard drives are substantially cheaper than buying a microSD card. As I've mentioned, owning just the four retail titles that aren't fully playable from the cartridge will require over 80GB of space (and most places, at least in Australia, do not sell microSD cards greater than 128GB in size). Developers need to be mindful of the fact that they are producing software for portable hardware, and that every gig counts. Most people will not be willing to buy numerous microSD cards just to accommodate their software library, and this practice will, sooner or later, come back to bite not only Nintendo, but the publishers that resort to this practice.

Publishers have the option to use a 32GB cartridge (just as publishers have the option to use 25GB or the more expensive 50GB Blu-ray discs on rival hardware), but they simply refuse to do so, opting to release an inferior product. The more we permit these anti-consumer practices, the worse it will become in the long term.

@N8tiveT3ch: But Odyssey, Splatoon 2, and BotW show that Switch can be a console with the year's best games. The games just have to be built with the Switch's capabilities in mind from the get-go in order to really shine. Personally, I don't even own a TV just now and so only use Switch as a handheld, and I really do think Switch is the beginning of the end for traditional console bricks. I think soon we'll be seeing consoles from all companies following Nintendo's lead: they'll be handhelds that can stream to a TV. And they'll keep getting lighter and more powerful (the Switch line, too) while hovering around the $300 price range.

@sillygostly the micro sd is not as bad as you make it out to be. We could be using the same thing the vita uses. Whether it’s an installation or a download it still means the same thing. The disk/cart alone is not enough. Hard drives/sd cards still get filled up. I personally would hate carrying a hard drive around with my switch everywhere and strapping it to my portable console while playing.

So I go to pickup my preorder at GameStop and they didn't have any copies and neither did any stores in the area. Anyone else run into this?

@sillygostly I just want to play good games and I am not gonna take part in some no buy protest because publishers don't want to pay for the cost of 32GB cartridges.

I am a fair person and can see why publishers are reluctant to meet that cost.

You guys really need to grow up and got a lot to learn. Carts cost a ton of money compared to discs, and 32GB ones by far cost the most. 2k is releasing a game on a system that has a total world wide install base of far less than current number of players in many online shooters, not to mention the other consoles. They ported the FULL game over too, with every feature intact. That being said there are some huge frame rate issues, but if like NBA 2k, they patch them and fix it a good bit, this really is quite amazing. No one should bashing them for not wanting to up the risks even more by using a 32gb cart.

If anyone here wants to blame someone, it should be Nintendo for only making a console with less than 32 gigs of internal storage, that is who is at fault here, not the developers. Yes you have to download a decent amount, but again, thank Nintendo for using a media format that is costly and cuts into the devs profits. If they can fix the frame rate in this, it will be an amazing achievement that they even got the full game over and looking good, with all content intact.

Gotta say...I really am enjoying this game, though any improvement through patching would of course be welcome.
On another note, I'm surprised so many people are insisting they want the cartridge version, since the SD card required download for that version is nearly as massive as the full eshop download anyway.

@Er0ck, you forget that if Nintendo would have more gbs then you would have a more expensive hybrid console. Besides sd cards are not that expensive.