Could Borderlands 4 Be an $80 PS5 Game? It 'Might' Be

Thanks Nintendo

It'll be $70, with $80 for an edition with the actual release date three days prior.

We've been paying $80 for years. It was just for "early access", or as we call it, the actual release date.

not paying 80 for this s***. i like borderlands but this is not an $80 series. this gotta stop 👎

Horrible decision. You may be able to do that if you build good will with the audience. 2K has absolutely not done that with that franchise. Capcom could do it with Resident Evil 9. Atlus could do it with Persona 6. Borderlands 4 though? Two flopped games and a flopped film in succession just don't warrant it.

I can’t wait to buy this in a couple years for $10!

Yeah, I blame Nintendo as well.

@Haruki_NLI my actual release date in when games are 20$ or below.

Borderlands 4 is not worth 80, just saying...

Luckily there are plenty of amazing games to keep me busy until it hits 50% off

I can wait for a sale, or in borderlands case, for the ultimate edition with all the dlcs. They're just gonna hurt launch day numbers. New releases in general.

80% chance I wouldn’t of brought this game . At £80 it would be 100% chance

Anyone willing to pay $80 for a Borderlands game deserves to be charged $80.

I'm not paying $80 for Borderland 4. Maybe for GTA6 but not any other game.

I mean for a good amount of people Borderlands 4 isn't a super exciting notion, so for those folks myself included, $80 just ensures it's doa in terms of mindshare.

These AAA slop factories continue to learn the wrong lessons from the recent game successes in gaming. Most of them were $60 usd or less, a fraction of the budget of their slop, and of more quality, creativity, and polish than almost all AAA releases of this generation.

Yet these idiots think they can blame the inflation myth and tariffs for their reasoning to charge more for inferior products to fuel the endless growth madness as sentiment for said slop declines. A rude awakening is coming for many of these itarative things aside from GTA and the zombies that buy the new cod, soccer game, madden, etc every year.

I haven't paid full price for that game since the first one.

They gives you in one hand (Mafia), but takes away in the other (B4)

80 for borderlands come on are companies taking the p**s

That's fine. I'll pick up a physical copy a year after release. All patched up and ready to go for $10. Like I did with Borderlands 3.

To put it into perspective, an 80 dollar release in the US is 110 in Canada before tax. Our taxes are pretty high so it’s 125 roughly for the base edition.

I feel like this is going to result in far more complaints from publishers about games performing below expectations.

@PlatinumMikey with these hikes and the state of games on release I can’t even guarantee I’ll still have my ps5 by the time this one comes out. I genuinely am getting too old for this cancer carousel. Got bills to pay.

My interest for borderlands is already mostly gone. Just giving me more reason not to play it

I drink a lot of Lucozade and usually buy 3 or 4 of the 900ml bottles every few days. This past week though the price has gone up by 25p, sure not a lot but it adds up when you buy 3 or 4 bottles as that's an extra £1. Because of that i only got 2 bottles this weekend instead of my usual 3 or 4.

The point to that story? They lost money from me by doing this, they could have had £6 but instead because they upped the price i brought less meaning that's £3.50 they got instead. Game companies can up the price to £80 and yeah stuff like GTA VI won't be impacted by this but if every big AAA game is now £80 that means less AAA games will be sold because people can't just drop nearly £200 each on games per month. Its why the £70 price has screwed over so many games as people are now being more picky because of higher costs. Look at SW Outlaws that might have done better price at £50-£60 but nah Ubi got greedy and paid the price. Its funny Clair Obscur is £45 and is selling extremely well, almost like that cheap entry price was a great way to get more people jumping in. People can't just drop £80 on a game these days and these Publishers are going to find out there's a limit to far they can push this pretty badly.

Good luck with that.

There's very few games that could get away with being $80. I can guarantee though that freaking Borderlands isn't part of that conversation, honestly I wouldn't even put it in the $70 club.

I love Borderland but no thanks. Gotta wait for sale. Which is my habit nowadays when buying game.

It won’t be for me since I’m just going to wait for price drops and sales.

Well I guess they just lost a day one sale from me then as I'll quite happily wait for the inevitable sale at a heavily discounted price when they realise its not selling or when it's given away as part of my subscription like the last dragon age game was.

I hope they don’t jack the price. In general, of course, because it’s a bad idea (especially for digital, which has no associated manufacturing and shipping costs). But also because it will put a huge damper on the goodwill from the fans, who mostly like the changes and improvements they’re bringing to the game.

I still haven’t played BL3, so I’ll be happy to play that instead. Also the Pre-Sequel, which I never got around to. So yeah, I have plenty of Borderlands in the backlog to keep me until the inevitable price drop

@DennisReynolds Couldn’t have said it better myself. If you think about it, the companies themselves have f***ed each other with the price increase. Because the price is higher I buy less games and I am also more picky what I buy, therefore instead of 10 games I buy only 2….companies that could have had sales now go bankrupt. Greed is a biatch aint it.

Get ready for "sales didn't met expectations" statements

@IntrepidWombat I’d pay $100 for Persona 6 and wouldn’t even think once 😂😂 though you’re getting 100+ hours so $1 an hour is still an amazing hobby price IMO

@Oram77 almost no games in the last while or in the future are, it also annoys me that some junk like Mario World has started given these devs ideas, cause that for sure isn't worth 80

The new game has double the budget of Borderlands 3? Does that mean they actually hired writers this time?

Never been a fan of Borderlands really, only played 2, but gameplay really fun. And the state of play video from last week looked really fun. I do think this will be on sale Christmas game for me though. Too much else to play this year.

Luckily it will cost me £0.

I may well preorder Mafia though!

Who's paying £80 for Borderlands? It's usually on sale within a year for less than £20

@Coffeeglitch it is getting ridiculous isn’t it.

Apparently I own borderlands 2, pre-sequel, and 3 through ps plus - I shall look forward to obtaining borderlands 4 via the same route in a few years

Ill buy Marathon instead 😎

The 80 dollar push is greed brought on by the excuse of the tariffs so the companies don't seem as bad. 80 dollar games are only going to make more money in some scenarios I bet Mario Kart will make more from it, but I imagine the majority will sell less if the go to 80 dollars. They'll also have less fans for future games. I could see this price shift resulting in even more layoffs and closures than help to these companies and consumers.

Even if it is, it won't be for me. I'll wait for a discount (also I'd pay in euros, but not 80).

Then it looks like I 'might' be exploring waiting for the eventual GOTY edition to be $20.