WWE 2K18 Finally Arrives on Switch 'Starting December 6th'

I can't imagine how bad this port will be since the xbox one/ps4 versions are unfinished messes.

Hope it's good for all those that want it. This is not for me.

Maybe by "starting" they mean you can start downloading on the 6th, but since it's so big you can't start "playing" till the 7th

@w00dm4n - Makes me wonder what was at least fixed since the delays.

No Big Daddy no buy.

Hard pass.

Maybe releasing those games bianually would improve them.

Never was a huge wrestling fan so this is a pass for me...for now...maybe down the road when it reduces to $19.99. Then maybe.

@Paraka i hope the patches at least so its not a mess. I tell myself that every year. Once all the DLC comes out and they finish patching it I'll play it. The career mode is bad with dialogue errors and confusion with how to progress. Oh and the Loot Boxes suck! I cant wait til they ask for real money next year.

The Royal Rumble is awesome. They made it fun again. It should be the main focus. Ive stayed away from it since the gamecube/ps2 days.

Its a $20 base/$30 with season pass game.
Royal Rumble on the go is tough to resist.

I can't understand the freaking file size. How can Nintendo manage to put BotW under 14 gb and this simple a%& looking game needs 33 GB of additional storage? This game needs a lot of optimization and the devs should be ashamed to put this out when they can barely code.

Not a Wrestling fan.
I prefer K-1 instead.

how could this not have leaked earlier from retailers? makes me doubt that it will actually be in stores tomorrow.

Preordered and ready to buy. Can't wait.

yes more shovelware games

@ekwcll Dont do it. The sucks on the ps4/xbox one

Preordered. Walmart has for $21 off.

After the excellent NBA 2K18, which has now been fixed up to the level of "exceeds expectations", I'm all in on this. I don't know how it will be at launch, but I know they followed through and got NBA 100% fixed up within a month. So I trust they'll do the same here if there are any issues.

Basically, NBA 2K18 is one of the finest multiplats on the Switch with full parity, all issues resolved, added online friend invites, and easily the best portable basketball game ever made. I expect no less for this.

@manu0
It did.

I got an email 2 days ago from Walmart stating WWE 2K18 would ship Dec 6th.

@w00dm4n - I missed Royal Rumble. Makes me wonder if Nintendo may consider making Nintendo wrestling a thing again.

Not gonna waste my poor lil sd card on this.

I wish they would release an optimized game for the switch, using a different and more simple engine. I'll hold off on this game as I'm still unsure if I want to pick up the WWE game this year. the 2K WWE games have been lackluster for me, and I've played nearly every wrestling game since the days of Super WrestleMania and Monday Night Raw for SNES.

This game just went from interesting to meh now so sorry 2K, maybe if this game wasn't a port then I may give it a chance.

@Paraka Amiibo support with classic wrestlers is a huge missed opportunity.
Starman's Trunks
Starman's Mask
Starman's Boots
the NES Pro Wrestling ring with 6 NES wreslers in the Retro 8Bit filter in a Battle Royal match maybe with the old VWA title.

Maybe next year

@Devlind How long have you been a Nintendo fan?

You should know by now that Nintendo are pros and fitting games of any size into tiny carts.

While 3rd party companies are used to Sony and MS consoles where they can release large sized games that require 50/80GB patches.

Annd how about a trailer to show how the port looks before we take the plunge? You're not going to make us judge it by that leaked vid without the patch are you?

But will it have Virtual Currency

@Angelic_Lapras_King I think you can be confident a Launch Day trailer will be uploaded in due time.

Yeah no thanks.

About time.

skip

@Angelic_Lapras_King
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=fMqZ6S0pkgM

@Nintendoforlife
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=fMqZ6S0pkgM

So it needs as much as storage as any 2 from Skyrim, Zelda and Xenoblade plus Mario Odyssey? Wrestling rings are bigger than I remember 😆 Also why does it then need an extra 1gb of storage on the console itself, when did save data become this big?

Why is there so many broken games comming out that need to be patched all the time

I fear triple A publishes won't commit to full physical releases because they are trying their hardest to push digital . It's almost like they are going through the motions of appeasement.

2k games are generally a mess at launch. This game probably won't be any good for another 3 months.
Not a fan of wrestling anyways so this is a no from me.

Not sure where to even order man since Amazon cancelled my pre-order last month... (UK)

i pre ordered my copy quite a while back on shopto in the uk. Their release date says 12/12/17 is this correct for the UK or just the physical side of it.?

https://www.shopto.net/nintendo/switch/SWWW21-wwe-2k18

JUST REALISED ON SHOPTO THE SWITCH VERSION IS ONLY £29.99 SO THIS IS A GREAT DEAL COMPARED TO MANY OTHER STORES FOR THIS GAME !!

Still too big a download alongside the physical version IMO, so it's a no from me.

@safcdbzff7

I just went and had a look after you posted that.

I'm tempted because no wrestling game since 2005 has been worth more than £30 IMO.

Are Shop To legit/reputable?

The Xbox/PS versions were a mess, so I wonder how bad the Switch version is going to be....😨

@GuruOfGreatness Yes Shopto is a legit site. Compared to sites like Game they are awesome.

I was interested in the game and planned to buy it on Switch, then I saw the reviews for the PS4 and Xbox One version. Waiting on reviews in hopes that the extra time allowed 2K to fix up and polish the Switch version, I'm not counting on that at all though.

@Hughesy

Thank you. I might just go check them out now

@safcdbzff7

GAME also has the release date of 12/12/17 for the UK release, albeit at £49.99 lol. Think I might have to give ShopTo a try

@GuruOfGreatness No problem, I have used Shopto for about 5 years and never had a problem 🙂

For those asking, I have used Shopto a number of times without any issues, if that helps.

I'm gonna wait a couple months. Just got an Xbox X One and have a Pro. The thought of taking it on the road with my Switch is awesome but... I'll just wait and see.

Reminder to wrestling fans: Fire Pro Wrestling World is an absolute gem. I'm playing it on Steam and the developer has indicated a Switch release is in the future. It will cost a fraction of the price of WWE 18 and be a MUCH better game.

What is the file size of the additional download if you buy the physical version? Is it comparable to how NBA 2K18 was with the cart being around 8GB in size and anything above that needing an sd card?

I still don't understand why 2K games take up so much memory for a save file, this one being 1GB and NBA being 5GB per user. Is it due to the replays it saves? I would rather have the option to not save them in order to not have such a big dent on the internal memory.

@Hughesy

I wanted to place an order earlier, but it says underneath a picture of the game that it is digital. I want a physical copy as I don't do digital. Didn't get a chance to call them to question them.

@Hughesy

I wanted to place an order earlier, but it says underneath a picture of the game that it is digital. I want a physical copy as I don't do digital. Didn't get a chance to call them to question them.

@Devlind clearly the dev part of your name does not indicate developer.

Nintendo develops software for their own Hardware. This intimate knowledge between the two affords them the ability to have such compression techniques.

On the other hand, third-party developers are making a single game that can work across multiple Hardware.

Why is this so difficult for people to comprehend?

@GuruOfGreatness I had a look, it doesn’t say digital. But the game is 32GB, and 2K cheap out on cart size, so the cart is only 8GB and the rest you have to download.

@gatorboi352 and clearly boi in yours indicate boy.

One single word, optimization. The game clearly looks different than the other platforms. If it was the same exact game I would not complain, but it isn't. There's no real excuse to delay the launch of this particular version and not optimize it to the system. Doom is a great example of how to optimize a game (and a far better than this tbh). You can't defend this kind of lazyness.

@GC-161 Back in the old days the developers managed to do that very well (Yes, I know the games weren't as big as now, but you get what I mean). I just hope that this doesn't become a trend. Instead of optimizing the game, they just throw a warning that you will need more storage to save money and time. But in case this becomes the new normal, I really wish Nintendo let us use external HDD at some point while the Switch is docked.

This has an in depth create a wrestler mode, about 50 entrance videos. Lots of audio and video also. WWE games have Always been big in size.

What do people want. Highly compressed audio and video which will sound and look rubbish just so the size of file size can be lower.

@GuruOfGreatness

Yeah ive ordered from them before there pretty good. Last thing i bought from them was that special edition 2ds pokemon sun and moon version. Came on the day of release.

@GuruOfGreatness

I wished game went out of business a few years back when they went into administration. Almost most of the time they over charge for games even pre owned games are expensive. Only good thing ive noticed from game is the console bundles from time to time other than that its best to shop online and look around

@garydbz25

Well I've just ordered my copy from them for £29.86

One thing I don't understand though is why they give an option to pay now, or let them charge you when they dispatch the game?!

Surely you'd just let them charge you when it's been dispatched and not pay them beforehand?

Think I also read that if you pre-pay and then cancel your order, that they only refund you with store credit, or you lose 70p or something and they will refund you properly.

Either way, if I can get a copy for £29.86, I'll be happy.

I never expect too much from wrestling games these days.

I see it's $40 and I have some points to burn :/

and i ordered it

I'm part of the problem

@Devlind "and clearly boi in yours indicate boy." I'm sorry what?

Anyways, even DOOM runs at half the frames on Switch. Unforgivable if you've played literally any other version.