"Borderlands 4" sales exceeded 2.5 million copies! Steam contributed 1.3 million copies

　　In less than two weeks after its release, "Borderlands 4" has reached 3 million copies on the entire platform. As the fourth orthodox work in this evergreen treasure-making shooting series, this work introduces the giant open world "Kelos Star" for the first time, becoming a historic breakthrough in the series.

　　"Borderlands 4" is one of the most anticipated 3A masterpieces in 2025, and has received strong support from players. Just two days after its release, Steam's number of online users exceeded 300,000, breaking the series record. In terms of media, this work's Metacritic score reached 83 points, 2 points higher than the previous work "Borderlands 3". The feel of the gun, character construction and optimized humorous tone have all been well received by the media and players.

According to GamesIndustry.biz statistics, the current game sales have exceeded 2.5 million copies, bringing about US$150 million to publisher 2K. It is worth noting that despite the initial performance problems of the PC version, the Steam platform still sold 1.3 million copies (developer Gearbox has been significantly repaired through patches).

Although the results are outstanding, the sales momentum of "Borderlands 4" is still slightly inferior to "Borderlands 3" in 2019 - the latter's first five-day sales exceeded 5 million copies, reaching 8 million copies as of the end of 2019, and the current cumulative sales volume is 22 million. There is an objective reason for this difference: "Borderlands 3" has inherited the reputation of "Borderlands 2", which is known as the peak of the series, and has accumulated higher expectations for seven years. In contrast, "Borderlands 4" faces the low reputation of the series caused by the dull response of the previous work and the disastrous defeat of the adapted movie last year, which makes players more cautious in making this purchase decision.

As the game quality is widely recognized, "Borderlands 4" is expected to exceed 3 million sales in the next few weeks. In addition, the Switch 2 version will be released soon on October 3, and the overall sales are expected to usher in a new round of growth.