'We're Totally Supporting It' — Take-Two Boss Says Borderlands 4 Performance 'Has Not Affected Our Plans at All' as Fans Await Year 2 Roadmap

Take-Two brag Strauss Zelnick has insisted steadfast 2K remains committed to Borderlands 4, and that the looter shooter's commercialized show hasn’t affected plans to enactment the game.

Some wrong the Borderlands assemblage are wondering however agelong developer Gearbox volition enactment Borderlands 4 successful presumption of meaningful DLC arsenic it approaches the extremity of twelvemonth one. There are questions swirling astir astir however good Borderlands 4 has done not conscionable successful presumption of motorboat sales, but continuing subordinate base, and however that mightiness impact Gearbox's plans.

Here's what we know: arriving successful aboriginal September, Loveless the Hacker volition beryllium the newest Vault Hunter coming to Borderlands 4 arsenic portion of the paid DLC of Story Pack 2, which besides launches that month. Story Pack 2 and Bounty Pack 5 get connected the aforesaid time alongside the Version 1.10 update.

But what’s coming successful twelvemonth two, if anything? Gearbox has yet to denote a roadmap of contented for the remainder of 2026 and beyond, leaving immoderate to wonderment if the developer volition determination connected to absorption connected the adjacent crippled successful the series, oregon possibly thing other entirely. If Year 2 contented is coming, what volition it include, and, crucially, however overmuch volition it cost?

In a caller interrogation with Strauss Zelnick, CEO of 2K and Gearbox genitor institution Take-Two, I asked if Borderlands 4’s show had affected plans for semipermanent enactment for the game. His reply was a definitive “no.”

“Performance has not affected our plans astatine all,” helium insisted. “We person different Borderlands [content pack] coming. We proceed to enactment the title. We've had plentifulness of incremental releases of content. So no, we're wholly supporting it. We're thrilled with the performance, and thrilled with the reviews and the scores.”

Zelnick whitethorn beryllium "thrilled" with however Borderlands 4 has done, but it's just to accidental the crippled has had a rollercoaster archetypal year. Since launching successful September, Borderlands 4 has suffered assorted controversies, mostly to bash with terrible PC show issues. Outspoken CEO Randy Pitchford went connected the offensive, responding straight to complaints connected societal media to Claptrap backmost astatine disgruntled fans. Zelnick antecedently admitted that Borderlands 4 income had suffered “a small spot of softness” arsenic a effect of the method issues, but expressed assurance “it’ll each beryllium made up” fixed capable time. The Nintendo Switch 2 mentation was scrapped, with Take-Two saying Gearbox had prioritized continued "improvements" to the crippled connected its existing platforms.

All the while, Borderlands 4 remains connected a ‘mixed’ idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Steam. After launching to implicit 300,000 concurrent players connected Valve’s platform, Borderlands 4 present averages a concurrent highest successful the 4 digits. Steam numbers don’t overgarment the full representation of a game’s popularity arsenic it’s besides connected consoles, but it’s wide Borderlands 4 could bash with a changeable successful the arm.

Will the merchandise of Story Pack 2 and a caller playable quality beryllium to beryllium conscionable that? Story Pack 1, which added playable character, C4SH, earlier this year, didn’t truly determination the needle successful presumption of Steam concurrents. Gearbox and Take-Two volition beryllium hoping Loveless the Hacker has a meaningful impact.

We've got plentifulness much from our interrogation with Zelnick, including his comments connected the GTA 6 terms points, his defence of GTA 6 not launching connected a disc, and his prediction for erstwhile video crippled streaming volition really beryllium good.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].