GTA 6 release date rumours shot down by Borderlands 4 boss: "Our decision is literally 0 per cent about any other product's actual or theoretical launch date"
The wait goes on.
Despite the GTA 6 release date rumours sparked by Tuesday's Borderlands 4 release date being moved, Gearbox's CEO has confirmed that it's all just a coincidence.
Borderlands veteran Randy Pitchford made a surprise announcement on 29th April that Borderlands 4's release date was shifting from 23rd September to 12th September.
With no initial explanation behind the decision, speculation ran rife across social media as to the reason for the move, with many settling on GTA 6 as the reason.
Gearbox Software and GTA developer Rockstar Games are both subisidiaries of Take-Two Interactive, a link that led many to believe that Borderlands 4 was shifting its release to accommodate a soon-to-be-announced GTA 6 release date.
However, Randy Pitchford himself has now come out to quash those rumours, stating that Borderlands 4's release date change has nothing to do with GTA.
"Borderlands 4 shipping early is 100 per cent the result of confidence in the game and development trajectory based by actual tasks and bug find/fix rates," Pitchford tweeted.
"Our decision is literally 0 per cent about any other product's actual or theoretical launch date."
Despite being announced at the end of 2023, GTA 6 still does not have a confirmed release date, apparently as a means of building hype, according to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick.
With recent predictions that the release date announcement is imminent, tying in with Take-Two's upcoming earnings call, the sudden Borderlands 4 switch seemed to be just another piece of supporting evidence.
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But while Borderlands 4 moving its release date doesn't directly tie in with the GTA 6 release date, that doesn't mean that there's nothing to take from the news.
In an interview with Variety, Zelnick stated that the company wanted to avoid releasing Borderlands 4 and GTA 6 too close together: "We wouldn't stack up huge releases unnecessarily."
With that in mind, Borderlands 4 being able to move its release date forward does suggest that GTA 6 will arrive later, supporting the currently predicted early-October release date.
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