GTA 6 And Borderlands 4 Won’t Be Released Close To Each Other, Take-Two Boss Says

Take-Two Interactive plans to have a comfortable gap between the upcoming releases of Grand Theft Auto 6 and Borderlands 4, even though both games are currently scheduled to launch within its 2026 financial year. This 12-month window runs from April 1, 2025, until March 31, 2026, and CEO Strauss Zelnick briefly spoke about the release date strategy for those games.

“I think it’s safe to say that we wouldn’t–and no one would–stack up huge releases unnecessarily,” Zelnick said to Variety on the subject.

Take-Two recently confirmed that GTA 6 is still on track for a Fall 2025 release, and Borderlands 4 has a nebulous 2025 release date currently penciled in. While the Borderlands live-action movie was released to poor reception in August, Zelnick doesn’t foresee it having a negative impact on the Borderlands game franchise ahead of its new mainline entry release. “So, I don’t think it hurt at all, if anything I think it may have helped a little bit. It does highlight something that I’ve spoken about many times which is the difficulty of bringing our intellectual property to another medium,” Zelnick said to IGN.

Once again developed by Gearbox, Borderlands 4 was announced during Gamescom Opening Night Live in August, although details on the game have been kept tightly locked up since then. Beyond the CG reveal trailer, we know that someone “far more dangerous” than Handsome Jack will menace players, and a high-tech–but lo-fi–planet for players to explore was recently shown off in concept art.

Rockstar Games veteran Ben Hinchliffe believes the GTA 6 will “blow people away” when it arrives, and it’ll be one of several big games released by Take-two Interactive. In addition to GTA 6 and Borderlands 4, the company will also publish Mafia: The Old Country and Judas, although neither of those have concrete release dates yet.