Borderlands 4 Will Launch on Nintendo Switch 2 on October 3

Borderlands 4 now has a Nintendo Switch 2 release date of October 3, 2025.

In a video posted to Twitter/X, Gearbox Entertainment head Randy Pitchford announced the Nintendo Switch 2 date, after a bit of a teasing build-up:

https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/1947702377185763768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Borderlands 4 has already had a launch date on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox: September 12, 2025, having been brought 11 days earlier from its previously-expected September 23 release. At the time, there was speculation that this was done to avoid the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6, but then GTA was delayed until next year. Gearbox has also already confirmed that Borderlands 4 will cost $70 at launch.

Previously, Pitchford has stated that the Switch 2 “has been a joy to work with,” but did not explain why the Nintendo version was coming later than the other versions.

We got to play a few hours of Borderlands 4 just last month, with our previewer saying, “the handful of hours I played left me fairly confident that I will find myself pulled back into this wonderfully weird world of psychopaths and extremely irritating robots.”

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