Summary
- Randy Pitchford has commented on Borderlands 4 potentially costing $80.
- The Gearbox CEO claims real fans will find a way to pay that if that's what the game is going to cost.
- The price of the game hasn't been confirmed, but it's been suggested it might follow the new $80 triple-A trend.
Just as we were still getting used to video games costing $70, studios have started to break it to us that their next games will, or might, cost $80. Borderlands 4 currently falls into the might cate൲gory, and even though it isn't confirmed to﷽ cost $80, Randy Pitchford isn't being very sympathetic to those who won't be able to afford ཧit if it does.
Replying to a tweet from the Gearbox boss in which Pitchford was celebrating Borderlands𒁏 4 coming t💧o the Nintendo Switch 2, a fan warned the CEO of the dangers of pricing the next game in the series at $80. They noted that a lot of people won't be willing to pay $80 for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Borderlands 4, which is probablﷺy true, but Pitchofrd claims he's not the one 🐽who gets to make the call.
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"Not my call," Pitchford tweeted in response, and he really should have just left it at that. Even though he's in charge at Gearbox, it's probably true, too. Parent company 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Take-Two Interactive and 168ꦫ澳洲幸运5开奖网:self-professed non-gamer Strauss Zelnick will be the ones who dictate how m🔯uch Borderlands 4 will cost.
Real Borderlands 4 Fans Will Find A Way
If You Can't, You're Not A Real Fan, I Guess
Pitchford couldn't leave things at a three-word reply, though, and went on to tell Borderlands fans that they're not real fans if they can't find a way to pay $80 for the next game in the series. "If y꧅ou’re a real fan, you’ll find a way to make it happen," Pitchford added, telling a story about how he bought a copy of Starflight for the Sega Genesis in 1991 for $80, working an ice cream parlor job after he left high school.
Pitchford has failed to account for a few things when tweeting this reply. For starters, I'm a꧃ssuming the '91 version of him was living at home and, therefore, didn't have rent or a mortgage to pay. My guess is that pretty much everything he earned could go directly into his video game fund. That won't be the case for the bulk of people who want to play Borderlands 4 at launch later this year.
The price of the platform on which you'll need to play Borderlands 4 will also have a big role to play. The Genesis was $189 at launch in 1989. That's almost $200 cheaper than the cheapest platform you will be able to play Borderlands 4 on, an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series S, following 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox's recent price hikes. Price hikes that aren't done yet ⛄as the platform's shift to $80 games is still to come.
As expected, studios will take the wrong lessons from Nintendo breaking 🤪the $80 b🅰arrier for Mario Kart World. There are only a handful of games that can get away with charging that much. First-party Nintendo games, GTA, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty. Anything else wi🗹ll be a serious roll o𒆙f the dice, and I'm not sure Borderlands 4 should take that gamble.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Borderlands 4
- Released
- September 12, 2025
- ESRB
- Rating Pending
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gearbox Software
- Publisher(s)
- 2K
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Multiplayer
- 💝 Online Co-Op, Online Multiplayer 🦂
- Cross-Platform Play
- Yes - all
