Borderlands 4 is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on September 12, 2025 , but that's not the date that it'll be arriving on Nintendo Switch 2. Gearbox needs a little bit more time with that version of the game, and today, Gearbox president, Randy Pitchford, announced the separate release date in a video posted to X.

Though he hams it up as if the Nintendo Switch 2 version won't make it in 2025, the actual launch date for Borderlands 4 on the Switch 2 is October 3, 2025, making its release arrive a week and change less than a month from its arrival on other platforms.

" Look, I know we promised that the game would come inside of 2025," Pitchford began . "We promised that it would come before the end of the year, and...game development is very hard. But I do have an update for you, we do have a date now. We have a date for the Nintendo Switch 2 version, of Borderlands 4 . You guys, that date...that date is...October 3! It's October 3 you guys! It's not next year, it's not even the holiday, it's so much before Christmas, it's so much before Thanksgiving, it's October 3 you guys, wooo! *horn noise.* I'm psyched, I'm psyched. Get it! "

Compared to the rest of the platforms, it'll be interesting to see how Borderlands 4 performs on the Switch 2, and though it's perhaps a bit upsetting for Switch 2 owners that they'll have to wait nearly a month after everyone else can get their hands on Borderlands 4 to play it themselves, they'll at least be able to see the beginnings of whether Gearbox is able to deliver on its promise that the endgame in Borderlands 4 is the " best endgame " in the series so far.

Especially if the Switch 2 version is somehow more expensive than the other versions of the game. That's not likely to happen, but with all the issues that Borderlands 4 has had around pricing and Pitchford having to apologize for telling fans that even if it had ended up being $80, they should have found a way to pay it, the last thing this game needs is another pricing controversy.