

In an interview with Hardcore Gamer, WWE 2K creative director Lynell Jinks stated that WWE 2K19 would be moving away from the simulation-styled gameplay of the last four WWE games, in favor of faster, more fluid gameplay, saying " kind of got turned off by the product we were giving them and we had to think outside the box and they never thought that we'd do it.

The series would be developed exclusively by Visual Concepts from WWE 2K20 onwards, with Yuke's going on to develop AEW Fight Forever for All Elite Wrestling and publisher THQ Nordic. This would be the final WWE game to be developed by Yuke's after eighteen years. It is the twentieth overall game in the WWE series, the sixth under the WWE 2K banner, and the successor to WWE 2K18. It was released worldwide on October 9, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

WWE 2K19 is a professional wrestling video game developed by Yuke's and published by 2K.
