Borderlands 4 Is Launching 11 Days Earlier Than Planned

Borderlands 4, Gearbox’s sci-fi open-world looter shooter, was acceptable to motorboat connected September 23. But the FPS sequel is present launching 2 weeks up of schedule, arsenic accidentally leaked by Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford. And that’s cool, but it besides has maine wondering what it means for Grand Theft Auto 6.

On April 29, Pitchford shared a video connected societal media astir Borderlands 4. He started the video disconnected hinting that helium had immoderate atrocious quality to stock astir the upcoming shooter, though this turned retired to beryllium a ruse arsenic helium soon pivoted to corroborate that improvement connected the crippled was going great. As a result, Pitchford announced successful the cellphone video that alternatively of Borderlands 4 coming retired adjacent the extremity of September, it was present launching connected September 12, 11 days earlier than archetypal announced.

Pitchford past promptly deleted the video disconnected of Twitter, and followed it up with a tweet implying that helium shouldn’t person posted that announcement until aboriginal successful the day. “Oops - clip zones… Reposting momentarily :) .” The quality has since been announced officially via the Borderlands account.

“The squad has been moving precise hard and everything is going large actually,” said Pitchford successful the video. “In fact, everything is kinda going the best-case-scenario. The crippled is awesome. The squad is cooking. And so, the motorboat day for Borderlands 4 is changing. We’re moving it forward....Holy, holy, what?! This ne'er happens, you guys, this ne'er happens.”

Announced backmost successful the summertime of2024, Borderlands 4 is the adjacent main installment successful the super-popular looter shooter bid from Gearbox and 2K. The upcoming FPS got its archetypal September 23 motorboat day backmost successful February. Borderlands 4 is being developed for PC, Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.

Players volition get a accidental to spot much of Borderlands 4 during an upcoming Sony State of Play connected April 30 that volition beryllium astir 20 minutes agelong and diagnostic a heavy dive into the shooter’s gameplay and world.

What does this mean for GTA 6's merchandise date?

While this is breathtaking quality for Borderlands fans, Grand Theft Auto fans waiting for GTA 6 are apt paying adjacent attraction arsenic well. Borderlands 4 was 1 of the archetypal large AAA video games of the twelvemonth to nail down a autumn merchandise day despite GTA 6 not yet having an authoritative motorboat date. And due to the fact that some games are published by companies owned by Take-Two Interactive (Rockstar Games and 2K), that meant a batch of radical (myself included) speculated that the archetypal precocious September merchandise was picked to debar GTA 6's rumored October launch arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable portion inactive giving Gearbox plentifulness of runway to decorativeness their game.

Now that Borderlands 4 is launching earlier, what does that mean for GTA 6? It’s imaginable that it means nothing. It could beryllium that GTA 6's interior day is inactive the aforesaid and Gearbox is conscionable shipping its crippled a spot earlier due to the fact that its improvement is going truthful smoothly that they tin spend to bash that. It’s besides imaginable GTA 6's merchandise day has moved up and that has forced Take-Two to propulsion different games up, too, successful bid to debar GTA 6.

I’ll beryllium funny to spot if Mafia: The Old Country, set to motorboat successful precocious August, stays determination oregon if it besides gets moved up. Or perchance adjacent gets delayed until aft GTA 6, though that seems similar it would beryllium a decease condemnation for Mafia, arsenic it’s apt to be, akin to past entries, a crime-focused open-world enactment crippled straight competing with GTA 6. In immoderate case, things are getting interesting.