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Borderlands 4<\/em>, the latest entry in Gearbox Software’s popular looter shooter franchise, is available to pre-order now for $70, a good $10 less than many assumed it would cost. The game’s price first came into question when its September 12 release date was announced without pre-order details, and Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford suggested that whether the game came with a $80 price tag was out of his hands.<\/p>\n Pitchford put his foot in his mouth in a thread on X sharing a behind-the-scenes video about bringing Borderlands 4 <\/em>to the Switch 2. A fan replied to the video asking Pitchford to not charge $80 for the game, to which Pitchford responded, “A) Not my call. B) If you\u2019re a real fan, you\u2019ll find a way to make it happen.”<\/p>\n A) Not my call. B) If you\u2019re a real fan, you\u2019ll find a way to make it happen. My local game store had Starflight for Sega Genesis for $80 in 1991 when I was just out of high school working minimum wage at an ice cream parlor in Pismo Beach and I found a way to make it happen.<\/p>\n \u2014 Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) May 14, 2025<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Naturally, that came off as a bit glib to anyone surprised by the sudden emergence of $80 games following the release of Mario Kart World<\/em>. <\/em>Pitchford didn’t exactly double-down next, but at a PAX East panel later in May, he also didn’t deny the game would have a higher price, noting that “Borderlands 4<\/em> has more than twice the development budget than Borderlands 3.<\/em>“<\/p>\n The official pre-order information settles things: the game is not going the way of Mario Kart. The Standard Edition of Borderlands 4<\/em> costs $70 and comes with free Vault Hunter, weapon and drone skins if you pre-order. If you step up to the $100 Deluxe Edition, you get even more skins and a “Bounty Pack Bundle” that includes exclusive areas and weapons. For the $130 Super Deluxe Edition, you get all of that plus the “Vault Hunter Pack,” which includes the game’s two story DLC packs and new playable characters. A $70 game is not a $60 game, but if price is your biggest concern, it’s better than $80.<\/p>\n Gearbox plans to show off more of Borderlands 4<\/em>‘s story and gameplay at Borderlands Fan Fest on June 21. The game is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X \/ S and PC on September 12. The Switch 2 release is scheduled for 2025, too, and Gearbox plans to share more information about it at a later date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Software Borderlands 4, the latest entry in Gearbox Software’s popular looter shooter franchise, is available to pre-order now for $70,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7282,"featured_media":11531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n