Summary
2K’s once popularTop Spintennis franchise has been given new life with the surprise announcement of a new game in the series. It’s been a whopping 13 years since the lastTop Spintitle, a2K sports game seriesthat was once beloved by fans of tennis and of sports video games in general.
TheTop Spinfranchise had its beginnings on the original Xbox console in 2003, making its way to PC and PlayStation 2 in subsequent years. At the time, the only other serious competitor in the small niche that was 2000s tennis games wasSega’s successfulVirtua Tennisfranchise, which has also laid dormant for almost as long asTop Spin.Three moreTop Spingames were released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii through the rest of the 2000s, withTop Spin 4marking the end of the beloved tennis franchise in 2011.
Now, 13 years afterTop Spin 4, 2K has announced the return of the series withTopSpin 2K25alongside the world-famous tennis tournament, the Australian Open, which is currently underway. The short 20-second teaser trailer featured in-engine footage of an Australian Open tennis match. The new logo followed as the trailer ended with “coming soon,” urging tennis andsports video game fansto follow TopSpin2K on Twitter for future updates.
For over the past decade, 2K has been leaning heavily on its more well-known annual sports franchises, like theever-popularNBA 2K,WWE 2K, andPGA Tour 2K, letting other once popular series likeMLB 2K,NHL 2K,andTop Spinfall by the wayside. Now that it’s been over ten years since a major tennis video game,TopSpin 2K25may find an audience that’s been longing for a more realistic representation of the sport equipped with modern visuals. It seems like, with the inclusion of “25” in the title,TopSpinis looking to become another annual franchise alongside 2K’s otherNBA, PGA,andWWEfranchises, as the originalTop Spingames from the 2000s were non-annual releases.
When Can Fans Expect To Learn More About TopSpin 2K25?
Though it has no release date, “2K25” indicates that the game is aiming for release sometime in 2024, as it’s standard practice for new sports games to include the next calendar year in their titles. With that said, fans may be right to expect to learn ’s return later on this year at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, as 2K has shown offgames likeMarvel’s Midnight SunsandTiny Tina’s Wonderlandsat Keighley’s presentations in the past.
