Borderlands 4 Launch Brought Forward by 11 Days — What Could It Mean for the GTA 6 Release Date?

Gearbox’s upcoming first-person shooter Borderlands 4 volition merchandise 11 days earlier than planned, arsenic confirmed by improvement main Randy Pitchford successful a video that appears to person gone unrecorded early.

Borderlands 4 was owed retired September 23, but volition present merchandise connected September 12 crossed PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and Nintendo Switch 2.

In the video, Pitchford said: “Everything is going great, actually. In fact, everything is going benignant of the best-case scenario. The crippled is awesome, the squad is cooking, and truthful the motorboat day for Borderlands 4 is changing. We’re moving it forward. The motorboat day is present September 12.”

“What?! This ne'er happens you guys! This ne'er happens! We’re moving the motorboat day forward! You’re gonna get Borderlands 4 earlier!”

Pitchford added that the promised PlayStation State of Play focused connected Borderlands 4 is owed retired imminently.

Of course, determination volition beryllium questions asked astir whether the unexpected determination to bring Borderlands 4 guardant has thing to bash with the looming behemoth that is Grand Theft Auto 6. GTA 6 is presently inactive acceptable for merchandise connected PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S astatine immoderate constituent successful the autumn of 2025. That’s a vague merchandise model that could extremity up consuming the likes of Borderlands 4, among different games. Has Borderlands 4 moved to springiness it much breathing room?

It’s worthy noting that Borderlands 4 is published by 2K Games, which is owned by Take-Two. Take-Two is besides the genitor institution of GTA developer Rockstar. At a precocious capable level, close up to CEO Strauss Zelnick, determination volition beryllium a cognition of each the company’s games, wherever they’re astatine successful development, and a tendency to springiness them each the champion accidental of success. Perhaps GTA 6’s merchandise day precocious came into focus, and it was felt that for the bully of Borderlands 4, it should travel retired astir 2 weeks earlier than planned.

If Borderlands 4 comes retired September 12, we tin possibly regularisation retired a GTA 6 merchandise day during the aforesaid period and August. Could it travel retired successful October? November? December 2025? All look up for grabs present for GTA 6. The hazard of people is that Take-Two ends up cannibalizing its large 2025 games by releasing them excessively adjacent together. And let’s not hide Mafia: The Old Country, different 2K game, launches astatine immoderate constituent summertime 2025.

Could Take-Two’s large games, and by that we truly mean GTA 6, extremity up doing much harm to each different than bully by releasing excessively adjacent to each other? That’s a question we enactment to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick successful an interrogation conducted successful February.

As you’d expect, Zelnick said Take-Two is readying its releases to debar a hazard of cannibalization, insisting the timing is driven by a tendency to “respect the consumer's request to walk a batch of clip playing these deed games earlier they spell connected to the next.”

“No, I deliberation we volition program the releases truthful arsenic not to person that beryllium a problem,” Zelnick said. “And what we recovered is erstwhile you're giving consumers hits, they thin to beryllium funny successful pursuing different hits. In different words, I've said this galore times, adjacent erstwhile the hits aren't ours, they're a bully happening for the industry. In this case, we anticipation that the hits volition mostly beryllium ours. So we consciousness truly bully astir it and I deliberation that we volition clip our releases truthful arsenic to respect the consumer's request to walk a batch of clip playing these deed games earlier they spell connected to the next.”

Amid each this speculation is of people the imaginable that GTA 6 volition beryllium delayed either into aboriginal winter, oregon astatine immoderate constituent successful the archetypal 4th of 2026.

"Look, there's ever a hazard of slippage and I deliberation arsenic soon arsenic you accidental words similar absolutely, you jinx things," Zelnick responded erstwhile IGN asked however assured helium was that Rockstar would deed autumn 2025 for GTA 6. "So we consciousness truly bully astir it."

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].