Yesterday, it was announced that Borderlands 4 would be moving its release date up by a few weeks to September 12th of 2025, and this promoted quite a lot of speculation that GTA 6 might have caused the shift in date.
Today, however, Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford has taken to social media to shoot down these claims, insisting that Borderlands 4's new release date is due to confidence in the game, and has nothing to do with GTA 6.
"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. Our decision is literally 0% about any other product’s actual or theoretical launch date."
As you'd imagine, there are still plenty of people in the comments who are sceptical about this, but it makes sense to us - we're still questioning whether GTA 6 will launch in 2025 at all! It feels like it could easily get a delay to next year.
In terms of Borderlands 4, it's great to hear that it's ready ahead of schedule, and hopefully that means we're in for the best Borderlands game ever when it arrives on Xbox this September.
Are You Planning To Buy Borderlands 4? (91 votes)
- Yes, I'll be getting it at launch!
- Quite possibly, yeah
- I'm not sure yet
- I doubt it at launch, but maybe in the future
- Not interested to be honest!