{"id":77469,"date":"2026-05-06T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77469"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:36:28","slug":"borderlands-4-on-switch-2-is-doable-take-two-says-after-gearbox-said-platform-was-perfect-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77469","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 4 On Switch 2 Is “Doable,” Take-Two Says After Gearbox Said Platform Was “Perfect” For It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Borderlands 4 on Switch 2 has been delayed indefinitely after developer Gearbox announced that it had paused development<\/a> on the game. But a pause is all it is, claims Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick. Fans fearing that the Switch 2 edition has been canceled can seemingly breathe a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n

Zelnick told Game File<\/a> that the decision to pause development on the Switch 2 came down to Gearbox wanting to first address the issues with Borderlands 4 on PC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been addressing those challenges, and we want to make sure that we’ve fully addressed Borderlands 4 from a consumer’s point of view before we bring it to more platforms,” he said.<\/p>\n

Getting Borderlands 4 running on Switch 2 is not a technical issue, Zelnick said, saying, “It’s doable.”<\/p>\n

As for Take-Two’s support of the Switch 2 in general, Zelnick said that as a third-party publisher, Take-Two wants to be “wherever the consumer is,” and he noted Take-Two has supported the Switch 2 with other games already, including Civilization VII.<\/p>\n

That being said, Zelnick pointed out that PlayStation and Xbox remain Take-Two’s “primary” console platforms. “You can tell from what we are doing and what we\u2019re not doing that our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Borderlands 4 on Switch 2 has been delayed indefinitely after developer Gearbox announced that it had paused development on the game. But a pause is all it is, claims Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick. Fans fearing that the Switch 2 edition has been canceled can seemingly breathe a sigh of relief. Zelnick told Game File that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77472,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77469\/revisions\/77472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}