Gearbox CEO Says Borderlands 4 Release Date Change Isn't Due to Other Games - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 May 2025 / 2,170 Views
Gearbox announced yesterday it had moved up the release date for Borderlands 4 from September 23 to September 12.
Gearbox Entertainment CEO Randy Pitchford in a new statement has said the release date wasn't changed due to other games.
"Borderlands 4 shipping early is 100% the result of confidence in the game and development trajectory backed by actual tasks and bug find/fix rates," said Pitchford. "Our decision is literally 0% about any other product’s actual or theoretical launch date."
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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He been reading our discussions? Hey Randy!
But I mean, if the game is done, why wait?
Why do you assume the game is done? It hasn't even gone gold yet (idk if that's really much of a thing anymore lol) but it's entirely possible that they are ahead of schedule in development. We're still talking nearly 5 months away. That's still a lot of development time. Most likely the polishing phase.
