With Borderlands 4’s September release inching ever closer, publisher Take-Two has revealed pricing for all versions of the game. And there’s good news for anyone worried an $80 USD price tag might be on the cards following all that recent hoo-ha; pricing for the standard edition has not, it turns out, crossed Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford’s “real fan” threshold.
Pitchford, of course, raised more than a few eyebrows last month, when he implied potential customers not willing to spend $80 on Borderlands 4 (should that ultimately prove to be its price tag) weren’t ‘real fans’. His statement – that “real fans” would find a way to get their hands on a copy of the game, even if it came with a $80 price tag – did not go down well, and Pitchford later attempted to justify his comments in a longer video. Unfortunately, he then followed that up with another ill-conceived social media post irritated fans quickly branded “tone-deaf”.
But it turns out, Pitchford could probably have avoided needlessly annoying his community if he’d just held fire a little longer. Take-Two has now confirmed Borderlands 4’s will, in fact, cost $70 for the standard edition of the game – but the full story is a little more complicated given regional pricing, variations in platform pricing, and the usual scrum of special editions full of various strands of Borderlands stuff.
PC is where you’ll be able to pick up Borderlands 4 cheapest, with the standard edition coming in at £59.99 on Steam and the Epic Games Store, and you’ll be paying £69.99 for the same version on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. That then climbs to £89.99 for the Deluxe Edition (which I suppose is now technically the Real Fan Edition given the price) and £119.99 for the Super (Fan?) Deluxe Edition.
And in case you’re wondering what the difference is, the Deluxe Edition features the game, the Bounty Pack Bundle (which includes four post-launch DLC packs promising new areas, missions, and bosses), plus Vault Cards containing more challenges and rewards, new gear and weapons, four new vehicles, Vault Hunter cosmetics, and the Firehawk’s Fury Weapon Skin.
The Super Deluxe Edition, meanwhile, includes all the above, plus the Ornate Order Pack (featuring Vault Hunter Skins, four Vault Hunter Heads and four Vault Hunter Bodies), and the Vault Hunter Pack. This latter includes two post-launch Story Packs, each bringing a new Vault Hunter, new story and side missions, new map regions; new gear and weapons, plus additional Vault Hunter and ECHO-4 cosmetics.
So to recap, Borderlands 4 – now with less toilet humour! – launches for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC on 12th September. But for something a little bit different, why not check out Connor’s investigation into the community of archivists are racing to revive a dead Borderlands MMO.