Borderlands 4 Release Date Moved Up to September 12, State of Play Set for April 30 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 29 April 2025 / 3,650 Views
Gearbox Entertainment CEO Randy Pitchford announced the release date Borderlands 4 has been moved up from September 23 to September 12.
A PlayStation State of Play dedicated to the game is set for tomorrow, April 30 at 2:00 pm PT / 5:00 pm ET / 10:00 pm UK. It will feature over 20 minutes of new weapons, abilities, missions, and more. You will be able to watch it on YouTube and Twitch.
"I told you I would have some news for you today about Borderlands 4, and I do" said Pitchford (via VideoGamesChronicle). "It’s not the news you’re expecting, it is about the launch date.
"And I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking at no point has there ever been a game that’s announced a launch date and then later had to announce that the launch date is changing. But I wanted to be the one to tell you that the launch date is changing.
"I know we promised that Borderlands 4 would come at the end of September, and the team have been working very heard. And everything’s going great. In fact, everything’s going kinda the best case scenario, the game is awesome, the team is cooking, and so the launch date for Borderlands 4 is changing. We’re moving it forward. The launch date is now September 12."
Borderlands 4 is in development for the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store.
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GTA6 releasing end of Sept confirmed? :P
I feel like it was Marathon as well. This is Bungie's first new title since Destiny 2, all the way back in 2017. That means the gap between Bungie's last game and Marathon is actually longer than the gap between Borderlands 3 (2019) and 4 lol. Even though Marathon doesn't have a huge amount of hype behind it yet, I would say the same is true of Borderlands 4 as well. Any attention players give to Marathon is possibly being taken away from Borderlands 4.
I am thinking Rockstar Games is aiming for a October launch for GTA VI, and probably early October. Totally screwing Ghost of Yōtei in the process :(
Whelp, I guess I was way off on my GTA VI release guess haha
We all were. I mean I guess they did need another year to finish it, 12 years wasn't enough. :P
I don't think 2K would be scared of competition from Marathon honestly, the most recent Marathon trailer was not well received (has about 2 dislikes to every 1 like on the official Playstation Youtube channel). While Borderlands 4 itself has also received some backlash due to the 4 playable characters being perceived by much of the playerbase as "boring" compared to earlier playable characters in the series, and general hate of Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford, it has still been received way better than Marathon, the most recent Borderlands 4 trailer has about 15 likes to every 1 dislike.
Meanwhile Borderlands 4 is being published by 2K Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, who is also publishing GTA 6, so it does make logical sense that they would know the GTA 6 release date and may be moving it away from GTA 6 to give Borderlands 4 some breathing room before GTA 6 cuts off it's legs at the knee. Afterall, most of the previous games in the GTA series released in either September or October (GTA 4 released in April, 5 in September, and San Andreas, Vice City, and 3 in October), and Take-Two themselves have claimed multiple times that GTA 6 is still on track to release in calendar Q3 or Q4 this year. I'm willing to believe GTA 6 may be aiming for either the last week of September or the first 2 weeks of October, which would definitely be enough of a reason for 2K to move Borderlands 4 forward to September 12 to give it more weeks on sale before it's legs are cut off by GTA.
Sony would know the launch date for GTA 6 so one would hope that they factor that into their planning for marathon and Ghost of Yotie.
or it fell to next year...
Why is borderlands getting a dedicated state of play while ghost of yotei video get randomly dropped on youtube?
I feel the same. I don't understand so much of Sony's decisions nowadays. 15 years ago, Ghost of Yōtei would have been the ending 10+ minute gameplay showcase of a huge E3 press conference from them. Now? Just a random trailer drop on a Wednesday morning on PlayStation Blog. It is still maybe my most anticipated release this year though, I absolutely loved Ghost of Tsushima.
Didn't Sony state a while back no first party AAA games scheduled for the rest of 2025, if so they may have been holding back Ghost of Yoti and maybe even Marathon, but have now been informed by Take-Two the GTA 6 release date seeing it will be on PSN and so bought Ghost of Yotei's release date or forward that would help explain Ghost of Yotie's sudden youtube drop.
I'm sure Yotei will have its own proper SoP closer to its release.
