10 Incredibly Dumb Things That Happen In WWE Every Year

On its own, pushing a video game product isn't such a dumb thing. Awareness can lead to purchasing. However, not everything WWE sells to gamers is of top-shelf quality.

Since the first WWE branded arcade-style game in 1989, Superstars, WWE has managed to keep itself in the video game market. The early games were generally enjoyed simply because they were the first ones fans got their hands on, whereas later down the line of wrestling games, players became a little more critical. Not every production gave WWE games the best reputation, such as WWE Raw in 2002.

There were successes in the past with the SmackDown series and No Mercy, but as of late, WWE video games have been stigmatized by the release of WWE 2K20, which arrived chock-full of glitches and oversights. Whereas WWE normally would have followed up with another game in the series, it decided to sidestep from the tainted WWE2K games and go with a button-basher known as WWE2K Battlegrounds.

There is nothing wrong with the way WWE tries to keep their video games updated, but what 2K20 revealed was that the company was more concerned about rushing a product out than the overall quality of the release, even despite issues before the launch, such as Yuke's departing while the game still had most of the developer's old coding. Fans will surely welcome future wrestling games, but if they continue to be lackluster and rushed, they might not for much longer.