Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick admitted this week that sales of Borderlands 4 were "softer" than the company would have liked. In speaking with TheGameBusiness, Zelnick notes the technical woes of Borderlands 4, especially the PC version, are a big reason for the underperforming sales.
Borderlands 4 earned some quite positive critic reviews when it released back in September. However the user scores, especially on Steam, trended towards negative. Even now, the overall user score average on Steam sits at a "Mixed" rating.
The critical acclaim [for Borderlands 4] was superb, and we’re really happy with the release. Equally, as you know, there were some challenges with the Steam release. [Developer] Gearbox has been addressing those challenges and will continue to do so. So, in terms of units sold out of the gate, the numbers were a little softer than we would have liked. In the fullness of time, we think it’s going to do great.
These totally-not-real performance issues were so insignificant that Gearbox has indefinitely delayed the release of Borderlands 4 for Switch 2 while they continue to try to optimize the game for existing platforms.
