Borderlands 4 Switch 2 Development Paused, as GTA Publisher Says It's 'Incredibly Excited' About Bringing Other Games to Nintendo's Console Instead

Borderlands 4 steadfast Take-Two has said that improvement connected the game's Switch 2 mentation is officially present connected "pause" pursuing its last-minute delay.

A Switch 2 larboard for the Gearbox looter shooter was initially announced during Nintendo's large April 2025 Direct and past pegged to get connected October 3, 2025, earlier its merchandise was scrubbed conscionable a week anterior to launch. Pre-orders were cancelled, though Gearbox framed the determination arsenic a delay, not a afloat scrapping of the project.

Indeed, the developer said it hoped to "align" its Switch 2 merchandise with the summation of transverse saves to the crippled — thing which present seems to nary longer beryllium connected the cards.

Speaking to Variety this week, a Take-Two spokesperson has said that enactment connected Borderlands 4's Switch 2 variation was nary longer ongoing, arsenic Gearbox prioritized continued "improvements" to the crippled connected its existing platforms.

It's a funny situation, not slightest due to the fact that the game's Switch 2 mentation got truthful adjacent to release, and had been played publically successful demo signifier astatine assorted events past year, specified arsenic astatine Gamescom 2025 successful Cologne. Opinion connected the game's Switch 2 demo was mixed, though Borderlands 4 has besides suffered from method issues adjacent connected the much almighty PlayStation 5 Pro and Xbox Series X. The game's Steam reappraisal standing has besides suffered from antagonistic comments regarding its PC performance, too.

"We made the hard determination to intermission improvement connected that SKU," Take-Two spokesperson Alan Lewis told Variety this week. "Our absorption continues to beryllium delivering prime post-launch contented for players connected the ongoing improvements to optimize the game.

"We're continuing to collaborate intimately with our friends astatine Nintendo. We person PGA Tour 2K25 coming retired and WWE 2K26 [for Switch 2], and we're incredibly excited astir bringing much of our titles to that level successful the future."

That past condemnation is intriguing, excessively — the proposition that Take-Two whitethorn present beryllium focusing its Switch 2 plans elsewhere. Could Nintendo's console go location to GTA 6, which looks progressively apt to marque its precocious 2026 motorboat date? Time volition tell. Last night, we besides learned that GTA 6 volition not skip a carnal variation astatine launch, contempt rumors to the contrary.

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