It has nothing to do with GTA6! It has something to do with confidence! Borderlands 4 reverse retweet response

　　Sometimes, Gearbox announced that it would advance the release date of "Borderlands 4" several weeks. This has caused some speculation: considering that R Star, the production company of GTA6, and Gearbox, the production company of Borderlands 4, both belong to Take-Two, some people believe that Gearbox's move may have been affected by GTA6.

This morning, Gearbox CEO posted on his personal social media that the reason why "Borderlands 4" decided to be released early is entirely because we are full of confidence in the game itself and the development progress, which is based on actual development tasks and vulnerability discovery/fix rates. Our decisions have nothing to do with the actual or assumed release date of any other product.

Previously, Take-Two stated that "GTA6" and "Borderlands 4" will not be released at the same time.