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"That the game runs at all on your system is a miracle" — Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford warns of "unplayable" performance if you don't meet the PC system requirements

Ahead of Borderlands 4's imminent launch, Gearbox says the game will be "unplayable" if you fail to meet its PC system requirements.

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Gearbox boss says Borderlands 4 day-one patch 'does a lot' but warns that players should have 'realistic' expectations about performance: 'Older hardware may not provide buttery smooth performance'

It's good advice, really.

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Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford wants "everyone to have realistic expectations for performance" ahead of launch: "This is a big, open AAA game and lower end and older hardware may not perform as well"

Overall, Gearbox is "confident in the game's performance and optimization"

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Randy Pitchford shares thoughts on the Stop Killing Games campaign, gets very existential: 'It's so sobering to think about the fact that everything will end. Not just us, but literally everything, and I kind of hate that'

"I hate the fact that someday, the people that I care about aren't going to be here, and someday I'm not going to be here."

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Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says Stop Killing Games "comes from the same heart that I have" and is "a metaphor, I think, for life" in the face of the inevitable heat death of the universe

Coincidentally, Gearbox's failed live-service shooter Battleborn "was about the last star that would exist" before the end of all life

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With 'Borderlands 4,' “The Technology Has Caught Up To The Ambition,” Says Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford

Pitchford and writer Sam Winkler break down how they made a new villain, a new set of vault hunters, and a whole new planet.

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Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says everyone expects Nintendo to do something "really interesting," and sometimes you get "brilliant" things like the Wii and Switch 2, and other times you get the Wii U, which "didn't work as well"

This is objectively true, and I also don't like it at all

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Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says "we’ve been baking this cake for a long time" as he teases the looter shooter's story connections to a new comic issue

More story for you to sink your teeth into

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Borderlands 1's artstyle overhaul filled Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford with dread because he thought he'd 'Have to go in and look at what they did' and 'shoot it in the head'

Turns out? Absolutely the right call.

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Randy Pitchford says the Borderlands film would've sucked a whole lot more if he'd directed it: 'It would have been way worse'

How did this even come up in conversation, that's what I want to know.

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$112 million Borderlands movie was a critical and commercial disaster, but Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford just wants you to know "it would have been way worse if I directed it"

OK, thanks for letting me know

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Borderlands 4 could have looked very different – the OG RPG initially had realistic visuals that were too similar to Fallout 3, so Gearbox "rebuilt the whole game" after 2 weeks of experimenting led to its iconic comic style

Gearbox was "already taking every risk," but decided to "do what our heart says is right"

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"We tend to commit to the bit": Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford talks Borderlands 4, the evolution of looter-shooters, and $80 game discourse

Gamescom 2025 | Randy Pitchford tells us how Gearbox went from seeing the industry predict that Borderlands "would find no audience, to being one of the leading video game franchises in the world"

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Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says "Nintendo just had the most successful new console launch in the history of video game consoles" with the Switch 2, so of course he wants to "bring more games to it"

"The Nintendo Switch 2 is an awesome, awesome machine"

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Borderlands has been too hot, too cold, and will now be just right, says Randy Pitchford: 'We can see those times we've gone too far'

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford feels like "we're just getting started" with Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: "I would bet that we are going to spend more time on that"

Gearbox has "a whole team of people that love fantasy"

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Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford admits Borderlands has gone "too far" in the past, but promises Borderlands 4 has hit the sweet spot

We're in the Goldilocks zone now

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Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford is "a little nervous" about Borderlands 4 because it can be harder than previous games and not everyone wants a big challenge

If you just want to zen out in an RPG, you can always grind your way to the top

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Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 finally exists in a world where technology "caught up to the ambition of what our game is" and praises the '80s double-jump: "Where in the rules of physics can I leap into the air and, out of mid-air, jump again?"

Technology has come a long way since the OG Borderlands

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Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says Borderlands "ushered in a whole new genre" of looter shooters, and imitators get it wrong when they "twist it too far," unlike Gearbox: "We tend to commit to the bit"

"Borderlands is the borderland between a role-playing game and a shooter"

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Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 is worth $200, but he wishes 'they'd give it away'

I guess $70 is an OK compromise between free or $200.

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Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says the game industry once expected a genre experiment like Borderlands to "die," but it actually became "one of the leading video game franchises in the world": "It's kind of humbling"

"We are always exploring the boundaries"

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Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "I think they could charge $200" for Borderlands 4, "you can't find a better value in the world for any type of entertainment," then adds: "I wish they'd give it away, because then everyone would play it"

You might worry about pricing, but Randy Pitchford won't

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Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4's story is inspired by the sale of Gearbox, then glazes over and says it's about where we as individuals want to be on the spectrum of anarchy to fascism

Which is just what I expect from the series with the pooping robot.

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