WWE 2K25 Producer Explains Why The Island Is Specific To PS5 And Xbox Series

WWE 2K25 producer Bryan Williams says hardware limitations are the reason The Island won’t be on the PC or older-generation console versions of the game. The open-world mode will be specific to PS5 and Xbox Series, and Williams told Restart that this is due to the limitations in older generation consoles as well as the various configurations of hardware on PCs.

“The short answer is just that: hardware limitations of the older consoles, mixed with various hardware specs that people have playing on PC,” Williams said (per Fightful). “To get the most optimal and the best experience, it was just being that restricting it to the current consoles of the PS5 and Xbox Series X was going to provide us with the best experience in our first year.”

He continued, “Now again, I emphasize first year. Maybe moving forward, we kind of figured the things out [with] these restrictions, we can come back to them, and investigate whether or not we can, you know, allow the island for everything. But for this first year, it’s one of those things where you only get one time to make a good first impression, right? So, we wanted The Island to be as good as it could possibly be. iI order to ensure that, we had to institute this restriction on where you could play it.”

WWE 2K25 releases on March 14, with the game available on March 7th for those who got the deluxe preorders.