Borderlands 4 launching early has "literally 0%" to do with GTA 6's release date, Marathon or anything save "confidence", says Gearbox boss

Pitchford successful pitchfork mode

Gearbox and Take-Two precocious brought guardant the merchandise of giggling gunslinger Borderlands 4 from 23rd September to 12th September. This came a week oregon 2 aft Bungie and Sony besides decided to merchandise their Marathon reboot connected 23rd September.

If you thought each that was grounds of publishers playing 4D chess astir the presently unannounced merchandise day of GTA 6, with Bungie and Sony making the just presumption that Take-Two won't merchandise GTA 6 and Borderlands 4 connected the aforesaid day... past you were mistaken. You should beryllium ashamed to speculate successful this fashion! Pshaw! Harrumph! Damn your eyes, sir, and damn the stalking equine you rode successful on.

So says Gearbox chieftain Randy Pitchford, who has climbed the parapets of societal media to importune that the caller Borderlands is lone shipping aboriginal due to the fact that it's super, duper good, and not due to the fact that Gearbox are trying to debar either an elevator combat with Marathon or the undivulged interaction tract of the incoming GTA 6 meteor, which volition surely obliterate the income of immoderate crippled foolish capable to vessel successful adjacent proximity.

"Borderlands 4 shipping aboriginal is 100% the effect of assurance successful the crippled and improvement trajectory backed by existent tasks and bug find/fix rates," wrote Pitchford. "Our determination is virtually 0% astir immoderate different product's existent oregon theoretical motorboat date."

As is the batch of galore chieftains lasting connected parapets, Pitchford is getting a batch of vigor for these assertions that Borderlands 4 is simply excessively darn superb to consign to the wastelands of precocious September. The Xitter replies are damning: 3 Dr Evil fingerquote gifs and counting, besides a Pinocchio, an Anchorman, and respective side-eyeing dogs. Now to spot if Marathon, too, undergoes a abrupt excess of assurance and brings its merchandise day guardant a fewer weeks. The Great Game continues.

According to what we cognize for sure, GTA 6 volition merchandise successful autumn 2025. "There is slippage successful the manufacture and we're not immune from that," Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick commented successful November. "However, we narrowed the timing due to the fact that we are highly assured successful that timing."