Recent additions to Raw and SmackDown will not be included in the upcoming WWE 2K25 game when the title is released next month.
In late 2024 and early 2025, Raw and SmackDown followed NXT by introducing Women’s mid-card championships. Chelsea Green became the inaugural Women’s United States Champion at Saturday Night’s Main Event in December 2024 and Lyra Valkyria became the inaugural Women’s Intercontinental Champion on the January 13th episode of Raw.
While the championships are now on WWE TV and factor into weekly storylines, they will not be officially a part of 2K25 when the game is released in early March.
Speaking with JustBryan, developer Bryan Williams stated that the titles would not be a part of WWE 2K25 at launch as they need to be factored into multiple areas of the game such as Universe and My GM mode. However, Williams remained optimistic that they would be included as part of a later update:
“Those titles will not be in the game come the release of 2K25. Not to upset anybody, but the fact of the matter is that when those titles were introduced, they were introduced way late in our development cycle. I want to say that they made the announcement of these titles in November of last year. Then they had the tournament to crown the first champion of each, so we were not able to add them into the game yet.
There’s a lot of different factors for that, outside of the assets that we need for title matches, the title graphic that comes up, there’s also other ramifications. We’ve got to accommodate for this and My GM, we’ve got to accommodate for these titles in Universe. So we didn’t want to just slap these titles in without having the support in the modes that need them the most.
We are having discussions right now to see if we could potentially add these titles post launch as another update where the Women’s U.S. and IC titles can be added into the game. We hear all the chatter. Trust us, had these been introduced maybe even four months earlier, it would have been in for sure. It’s just a matter of our schedule versus how the WWE operates. But we hear you guys and we’re going to do everything we can to see if we can support them.”
More Information Provided On WWE 2K25 Showcase Mode
A popular part of the videogame franchise, this year’s showcase mode will focus on The Bloodline with some of the biggest matches featuring members of the legendary Anoa’i Family. As part of the latest promotional material, Paul Heyman has provided more details on the WWE 2K25 Showcase mode, which is described as an “interactive documentary.”
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