Borderlands 4 release date moved up two weeks
- Borderlands 4’s release date has been moved up by two weeks, shifting from September 23rd to September 12th.
- The change was announced by Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox Interactive, who reassured players that development is going well and the game should be released earlier.
- Many gamers and press are speculating that the bumped up release date has nothing to do with development progress, but rather to avoid conflicting with the expected launch window for Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA VI) in late September 2025.
- GTA VI’s publisher, Take-Two Interactive, shares a partnership with Gearbox Interactive, making it likely that the new release date is intended to get out of the way of GTA VI’s launch window.
- A 20-minute State of Play presentation for Borderlands 4 will be presented by Sony on April 30th at 2PM PT/5PM ET, providing more information about the game.
The release date for Borderlands 4 has been moved up by two weeks, shifting from September 23rd to September 12th. This is according to a video posted by Randy Pitchford, CEO of Borderlands developer Gearbox Interactive, that was ironically deleted and reposted because it went up too early.
“I wanted to be the one to tell you the launch date is changing,” Pitchford said in the video. He reassured players that development was going well, in fact, so well that it was determined the game should be released earlier. But when the news was announced (officially at 11 AM) gamers and press immediately started speculating that the bumped up release date has nothing to do with how well development is going. Instead, Gearbox may be simply trying to get Borderlands 4 in as many hands as it can before GTA VI tears a big ole’ hole in the video game market.
GTA VI doesn’t have a set release date yet, and we’ve only been given the nebulous timing of Fall 2025. Well, September is technically fall in the US, and big AAA games like Borderlands don’t move up their release dates on a whim. Given that GTA VI and Borderlands 4 share a publisher in Take-Two Interactive, it seems even more likely that the new release date is merely getting out of the way of a late September launch window for GTA VI.
However, if what you want is more info on Borderlands 4, Pitchford closed his video by sharing that Sony will present a 20-minute State of Play presentation on April 30th at 2PM PT/ 5PM ET.