Gearbox Would ‘Love’ to Bring Original Borderlands to Current-Gen

Gearbox Software is interested in bringing the original Borderlands game to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, studio boss Randy Pitchford has revealed. 

Speaking on the latest episode of Major Nelson's podcast, Pitchford said 2K Games may consider bringing the first Borderlands to current-gen consoles if The Handsome Collection, which includes Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, proves successful. 

“The fact that The Handsome Collection has Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and Borderlands 2 means there’s still that original game that isn’t on next-gen yet,” Pitchford commented. “If this is successful, I’m sure the folks at 2K, the people that care about publishing and figure out how to get content in customers’ hands if customers want it, will be noticing that.

“And I’d love to have those conversations about how to bring Borderlands 1 to next-gen. If The Handsome Collection is successful enough, there might be a way to justify that, and I really hope that’s the case. I’d love to have my entire Borderlands collection on next-gen.”

There is a problem however, in that the original Borderlands runs on a different engine to the later games. Even so, Pitchford believes these issues could be overcome.

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is out today.