Weeks after Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford recommended that Borderlands 4 could possibly be priced at $80, 2K has confirmed that will not be the case. The upcoming looter shooter, nevertheless, will not price the long-breached $60 commonplace both. The usual version of Borderlands 4 will probably be priced at $70 — the brand new commonplace pricing for triple-A titles on current-generation consoles. The sport is now accessible to pre-order throughout PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence S/X.
Borderlands Confirms Pricing, Editions
2K introduced pricing and pre-order data for Borderlands 4 Monday, detailing all accessible editions. The writer additionally confirmed that the sport’s post-launch content material would come with story missions and new vault hunters, new map areas and extra.
Borderlands 4 will probably be accessible in Normal, Deluxe and Tremendous Deluxe editions throughout all platforms, priced at $69.99, $99.99 and $129.99, respectively. In India, the three editions are priced at Rs. 3,999, Rs. 5,699 and Rs. 7,499, respectively, on PC (through Steam and Epic Games Store). On consoles, the sport prices Rs. 4,999, Rs. 7,499 and Rs. 9,799, respectively.
The Normal Version comes with the bottom sport, whereas the Deluxe Version contains the Bounty Pack Bundle, consisting of 4 post-launch DLC packs, 4 Vault Playing cards with distinctive challenges and rewards, new gear and weapons, 4 new automobiles, Vault Hunter cosmetics and Firehawk’s Fury weapon pores and skin. Every DLC pack options distinct areas, new missions and distinctive bosses, 2K confirmed.
The Tremendous Deluxe Version contains all advantages from the Deluxe Version and the Vault Hunter Pack, which options two new Story Packs, every with a brand new Vault Hunter, story, and aspect missions; two new map areas; new gear and weapons; extra Vault Hunter cosmetics; and new ECHO-4 cosmetics. The version additionally options the Ornate Order Pack with 4 further Vault Hunter Skins, 4 Vault Hunter Heads and 4 Vault Hunter Our bodies.
Borderlands 4 $80 Worth Controversy
Final month, Pitchford drew criticism over his response to a person on X (previously Twitter) commenting on Borderlands 4’s potential pricing. The Gearbox CEO had stated he did not have a say on the sport’s pricing and claimed {that a} “actual fan” would pay $80 for a sport.
A) Not my name. B) When you’re an actual fan, you will discover a option to make it occur. My native sport retailer had Starflight for Sega Genesis for $80 in 1991 after I was simply out of highschool working minimal wage at an ice cream parlor in Pismo Seashore and I discovered a option to make it occur.
— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) May 14, 2025
Pitchford later apologised for his comment on X, saying, “no person likes being taken with no consideration and it was not my intent.”
At a Borderlands 4 panel in Might, he additional clarified his stance on the sport’s pricing. When requested what the sport would price, he stated he did not know. “It is an attention-grabbing time, proper? On one stage, we have a aggressive market the place individuals who make these selections (about sport pricing) wish to promote as many items as potential and so they wish to watch out about people who find themselves value delicate,” Pitchford stated.
“So, there are some people who do not wish to see costs go up, even those deciding what the costs are. There are folks accepting the truth that sport budgets are growing and there is tariffs for the retail packaging — it is getting gnarly on the market.”
Pitchford confirmed that Borderlands 4 had greater than twice the event funds of Borderlands 3.
On Monday, following the Borderlands 4 pre-order and pricing announcement, Pitchford exclaimed there was no price increase for Borderlands 4 — an incorrect assertion, contemplating Borderlands 3 was priced at $60. “The massive information: No value improve for Borderlands 4! Normal Version launches not at $80, however at $69.99! They’re displaying you, so please present them,” he stated.
The discourse on sport pricing sparked a number of years in the past when triple-A releases on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X breached the $60 commonplace to relaxation at $70. Extra just lately, the bar was raised additional when Nintendo introduced that Mario Kart World, the first-party launch title for the Nintendo Switch 2, would price $80.
Final month, Microsoft announced it could increase the costs of Xbox consoles and confirmed that costs for a few of its first-party video games would go up from $70 to $80 this vacation season. At Xbox Games Showcase on June 8, the corporate introduced that The Outer Worlds 2, its upcoming triple-A primary-party RPG, would price $80.
Borderlands 4 will launch on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence S/X on September 12, with a Swap 2 model arriving later this yr.