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GTA 6 not the reason for Borderlands 4 release date change, Randy Pitchford insists


Gearbox's Borderlands 4 got its release date moved up yesterday, but this wasn't because of anything to do with GTA 6.

Many surmised this was a tactic to make sure that the launches of Borderlands 4 and GTA 6 - both franchises under the Take-Two umbrella - were spaced further apart. Watch on YouTube According to the Gearbox head, this date shift is "100 percent" down to the studio's "confidence in the game and development trajectory backed by actual tasks and bug find/fix rates". Writing on social media, Pitchford said: "Our decision is literally zero percent about any other product's actual or theoretical launch date."

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