While Battling Performance Problems on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, Gearbox Delays Borderlands 4 on Nintendo Switch 2 Just a Week Before Launch and Cancels All Digital Pre-Orders

Gearbox has delayed the Nintendo Switch 2 mentation of Borderlands 4 indefinitely and cancelled each integer pre-orders conscionable implicit a week from its merchandise date.

The looter shooter had been owed retired connected Nintendo’s caller console connected October 3. Gearbox failed to stock an updated merchandise day successful its announcement. Here's Gearbox main Randy Pitchford's Borderlands 4 Nintendo Switch 2 merchandise day announcement video, released successful July.

An important connection regarding the Nintendo Switch 2 mentation of Borderlands 4: pic.twitter.com/Wc5MwAU2bm

— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) July 22, 2025

The hold determination comes astatine a clip erstwhile Gearbox is already moving to hole show issues with Borderlands 4 connected PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. For example, past week the tech experts astatine Digital Foundry confirmed a gradual worsening of framerate with continuous playtime, adjacent connected the much almighty PlayStation 5 Pro and Xbox Series X. As revealed successful a video published to YouTube, Digital Foundry recovered show starts dipping aft astir 30 minutes to an hour, which it called "too intrusive connected the wide experience, excessively regular an interruption." Even aft a wholly caller boot, the crippled is inactive prone to framerate drops.

Meanwhile, Borderlands 4 is inactive connected a mixed Steam reappraisal rating, with astir of the antagonistic comments revolving astir PC performance. Digital Foundry has said its archetypal investigation of Borderlands 4 connected PC shows important stutter problems, and person advised against moving the crippled connected its ‘Badass’ graphics setting, which suggests determination are so problems with the Unreal Engine 5 title.

With this successful mind, it’s hard to ideate Borderlands 4 connected Nintendo Switch 2 moving smoothly.

“Greetings, Vault Hunters,” Gearbox’s connection began. “We request to stock that the merchandise of Borderlands 4 connected Nintendo Switch 2 is being delayed. We bash not instrumentality this determination lightly, but are committed to ensuring we present the champion imaginable acquisition to our fans, and the crippled needs further improvement and polish clip to bash that. Our anticipation is to besides amended align this merchandise with the summation of transverse saves, which we are moving connected and admit is precise important. We volition update you each connected the caller merchandise timing erstwhile we’ve afloat adjusted our plans.”

The workplace said that “in accordance with Nintendo’s policy,” each integer pre-orders to day volition beryllium cancelled. “We greatly admit the feedback, enactment and patience of our fans and community. It’s genuinely what keeps america going.”

There was a chiseled deficiency of astonishment astatine the announcement from fans. "The crippled has occupation connected my 4080 super, I can’t ideate however the Switch mentation would fare," said redditor Bitemarkz. "I dont expect the Switch 2 mentation to ever tally well, but I bash respect the determination to hold it to debar a implicit catastrophe of a launch," commented jwhudexnls. "BL4 brings apical of the enactment desktop PCs to their knees, there's nary mode successful hellhole immoderate spirit of NVidia Tegra is wrong the power 2 tin adjacent motorboat the game," added HoboG0blin.

It was a akin absorption implicit connected societal media. "Given however it performs present it would tally astatine either 5 fps connected the Switch 2 oregon crook into a Torgue instrumentality that explodes erstwhile attempting to tally the game," said @Raumentonus. "Assumed arsenic much, wherefore did we propulsion up the merchandise day successful general?" wondered @atomick.

Greetings, Vault Hunters - We request to stock that the merchandise of Borderlands 4 connected Nintendo Switch 2 is being delayed. We bash not instrumentality this determination lightly, but are committed to ensuring we present the champion imaginable acquisition to our fans, and the crippled needs further development…

— Borderlands (@Borderlands) September 23, 2025

Pitchford had acceptable his sights connected winning aggravated Borderlands 4 players implicit connected societal media. Since Borderlands 4’s immense Steam motorboat past week, Pitchford has issued confusing comments connected wherefore the console mentation of Borderlands 4 lacks a tract of presumption (FOV) slider, promised that it would person been intolerable to interruption the Borderlands 4 servers done sheer value of subordinate numbers alone, told radical to “code your ain motor and amusement america however it’s done, please,” and declared Borderlands 4 “a premium crippled made for premium gamers.” He adjacent started telling Borderlands 4 players to refund the crippled connected Steam if they were that upset.

However, it seems Pitchford has been comparatively quiescent connected societal media successful caller days, and has yet to contented immoderate remark astir the delayed Switch 2 version.

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