Borderlands 4’s elusive Switch 2 release date has finally been revealed, but there might be a few jealous glances from series fans planning to get stuck in on Nintendo’s platform: developer Gearbox has announced the Switch 2 version won’t release alongside other versions in September. Don’t be too sad, though; Borderlands 4 for Switch will trail other platforms by just a few weeks, launching on 3rd October.
Borderlands 4 was, of course, announced last August, and we finally got a first look at the looter-shooter sequel when The Game Awards rolled around in December. Since then, we’ve had thoughts on that Borderlands film flop, a promise to cut back on the toilet humour for the series’ fourth instalment, and Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford putting his foot in it so many times on social media, it’s a miracle publisher Take-Two didn’t hide his phone.
It’s been an eventful ride then, but finally Borderlands 4 is almost here. It’s due to launch for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC (on both Steam and Epic this time around, because it turns out that Epic-exclusive business perhaps wasn’t such a great idea) on 12th September, a little earlier than its originally announced release date. As for the Switch 2 version, all we knew previously was that it would arrive “before the end of the year”, but Pitchford has now locked that date down to 3rd October in a new video on social media.
“I know that you’re worried about [Switch 2],” he told fans, “because we haven’t yet announced a launch date, we haven’t yet opened pre-orders, and many of you take that as a sign that the game isn’t coming out any time soon… But we do have a date now… It’s not next year, it’s not even the holiday. It’s so much before Christmas, it’s so much before Thanksgiving, it’s October 3rd”. Pitchford then repeatedly honked like a horn, insisting he was “psyched”.